Vanishing Tattoo --
Trip Updates
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My day does not start auspiciously. I wake up at 6:00 am and find I am sleeping with a lizard. A dead lizard. apparently some poor little gecko curled up beside me for a little warmth and comfort and I callously rolled over and crushed him. Who said love doesn't hurt?
Tom and I calculate that for me to do the interview with Kim Baldwin at Tech
TV for their Internettonight.com show segment Home Sweet Homepage sometime between 1 pm and 4pm Pacific STANDARD Time on Thursday, November 16th, I will And just for the record, why can't any of this stuff being happening in the middle of an afternoon for a change? It seems as if Tom and I have been getting by on 4 or 5 bad hours of sleep for days on end... The rest of the day is a blur... two boats, a mad rush to get everywhere on time with a pack that tips the scales at pretty close to eighty pounds. A plane that I get the last ticket for with ten minutes to spare and manage to board at the last second, the last person through the turn-stile. I hit the ground in Kuching and book myself into the Kuching Hilton. An actual telephone in the room. The first shower in the room since Japan. The first toilet where I don't have to squat... well, that's probably more information than you needed to know. There's even CNN. I love CNN. I am a CNN junky. But not a soul on the planet has a clue who the next president will be. To quote Don King, "Only in America!" I leave numerous messages for Kim Baldwin but cannot connect. I fax my partners back in Vancouver. Nothing seems to be working. I suppress a wave of panic. Have I rushed all this way back and abandoned Tom upriver for a fruitless goose-chase. I leave a wake-up call for 6:30 am and hope for the best. It's in the hands of the Gods now. More to come... |
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