Well I actually did remember Jim's birthday today even before being prompted by the matriarch. I still say I was the first since my email was relatively early this am, at least a few hours before the Thai working day. I guess I'll just have to sit in the back of drifters with two bottles of killians, having a beer with me brother back in the old country. (an old joke; maybe you've heard it)
The mailing address they told me is actually PO Box 8, Wake Island. HI 96898. I was down at the air field terminal today for a meeting and for a moment thought I should go check if I had any mail. Then I remembered that the last mail delivered here was when I arrived.
Chugach is the corporation that runs the island, and if anyone is looking for a job in an out of the way place, they're the ones to talk to. Seems like half the Americans who work here knew someone else who worked here first.
I have been trying to learn at least a few phrases in Thai; my spelling was a guess; interestingly the phrase list I was given spelled it sawasdee khrap. The hardest part that I haven't got a handle on at all is that the inflection can change the meaning of things according to what I am reading. I don't think I'm going to learn a lot of this language. So I'll settle for sawasdee khrap. AlsoI know that the food is phet maak.
There was some discussion about the disposal of the beach garbage but I think most of it is going to be piled up in the dump so that it will be there to be spread back around the next time a typhoon shows up.
I got up early this am and watched the moon set as the dawn was just breaking; really cool light and scenes and did get some photos, but, same problem. It would take a week to upload 2 or 3.
I forgot to mention the chickens. The thais have been raising chickens here for a long time, and of course when the typhoon came they go left behind. They survived and so every morning you can hear the roosters crowing. Phol (Po) goes over to Peale (the northeasterly most part of the wake atoll where the pan am terminal once was) and collects his eggs about once a week. So at least we know they are heterosexual. I was looking at the list of all the people here and noticed Lhongdoong and Phatdeek (or something very similar) .I had to check and make sure I hadn't mixed some weirdo spam with the list.
Well I'd better get going if I'm going to make it to have that beer with Jim.
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