December 20th 2009
MORNING: Up bright and early at 5:00AM, made myself a coffee and settled down in my favourite chair to check my email – poop! – we are down to crawl speed due to our “Fair Access Policy Threshold” being exceeded for the broadband quota provided by Hughes Net. Out in the boonies you do not get much for your $300/month, just 500MB/day and if exceeded you have to wait a full 24 hours before broadband service is restored! So who is the culprit? Well, it is a tossup between our crew loading tons of pictures on Facebook or the shuffleboard champ playing games on the computer – my guess is that it is a combination of both :0).
5:40AM and Chef Kim has arrived to prepare Mums/Kids (MK’s) breakfast, he sure is a hard working reliable guy! I take this as my cue to commence the brownie point mission of making a cup of tea and taking it to Nan in bed; we had set the alarm for 6:00AM since a goodly number of MK’s told Jaranya last night that they would be turning up for the Ruesri Dat Ton session, a Thai self stretching exercise, scheduled for 7:00AM this morning.
