Going on dreaming

It has been windy for a week, so not out since I was downtown with the passport to send to the Thai embassy to get a tourist visa.

Got mail from my doc yesterday, lab values as usual, so it is just to go. Of course it is a certain resistance to all the travel troubles I know I will get, but so far I manage, lately I do look rotten enough so I usually get help without asking, in airports etc, so I do not really worry.

I wrote a "book" http://ralphtheogre.dyndns.info/Bok/ about 4 years of my life, intended to edit it enough to send to some book companies to see, but I have never got ready for that. Still, interesting to read there - during 9-10 months in Sweden hardly anything interesting happens, all of it has been during the winters in Thailand! Meeting interesting people, experiencing many things.

I have of course decided to take long walks outdoors all this summer but - never found any reason, to go out to see the same boring houses every day. Maybe I have gone out a little twice a week, which of course is not enough to keep muscles in order but - time is full in front of the computer, reading and writing, until I am tired and then I sleep! 2-3 hours in afternoon, then the rest during night, however long it is. Rather much pain in the legs, so I have no idea how long my effective sleep is. OK, now I regularly take 2 Paracetamol before going to bed which helps a bit.

Hm, 4AM, bedtime and too much homemade white wine!

Less than 3 months left yippeeeee!

I hope.

Yesterday I was to the hospital for the usual diabetes lab tests, sent to my doc, so I oughta wait for them but....... I often feel like shit before going thou it has usually been because of autumn cold, flu, sinusitis whatever. Now as retired since 2-3 years I do not meet many pipul so i do not get infected, only old.

I saw a cheap ticket so I bought it quick-like, 6500 Sw. Crs, so I go on Dec 4 for 90 days.

If the lab tests say my kidneys are gone, ah well - but they have been fairly stable the last decade, and the rest too. What I need now is 3 months of hot air, good food, hopefully my friend Micke will find me a suitable little room/apartment in Pattaya for most of the time. He was up here today for a chat, he goes down on Nov. 15 so 3 weeks before me - I stay in my usual quarters in BKK for a week, then a minibus down to Pattaya.

Yesterday I walked home from the hospital, a distance for me, not walked that far for some months, so still some little ache in the legs - which probably is healthy. If I feel for it, I go out tomorrow to mail the passport to the consulate, after fixing two ugly photos, so that thing is done. Then the question is about vaccinations...... I haven't checked the yellow booklet, last time I did not need a refill, now? And pig flu?

I spent today reading around the Thailand forums, to see what the guys do down there - it's the usual, but some are rather good writers and sort of fun to read :)

Anyway, a trip will be really useful for me, I feel - already from my walk from the hospital, I do WANT to go out there all the time, and I also need to if I want food. Hee - what's the point, you is doing the food shopping........

Sort of bedtime.