Yesterday afternoon, as I do often in good weather, I took a motorcycle ride. I work all night until 9:00 AM-then sleep until about 2:00
PM. I stopped for a cold drink, and while I was standing around the Shell station, my phone rang. It was my very good friend Taike calling from Taiwan. We talked for about 15 minutes, but I had to head back to town for a meeting. I'm going to try to call him at 7:00 PM-about 5 minutes from now. That will be 7:00 AM-when he wakes up. He's an all round good guy, who has had an unfortunate bunch of bureaucratic screw-ups, which have resulted in his dear wife, Nok and his great little son have to go back to Laos. He won't see them until Chinese new year, in late January.

I'll let you know what happens after I talk to him again.


Russ