När jag har något att säga säjer jag det här, om jag inte säger det någon annanstans. Politik, mera om Asien än om Västvärlden eftersom jag ofta känner mej mindre främmande där. Sometimes English, sometimes Swedish depending on what kind of keyboard and my state of mind.

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2007-12-29

28 December, 13:45

I sit here, read, write, think. A rather sensible combination. 33°C, so I put on the fan, but moved it so it does not blow too strongly on me - from under the fan a 3 cm black baby lizard decided to relocate to some other more favoured position.

I am somewhat worried that my feet are a bit swollen - it can have several reasons. They are always somewhat swollen because of my bad kidneys only running at half speed, so I take medicine for that together with all blood pressure pills - the problem is of course why it has been swelling up more the last few days. But as long as there is no pain and double-sided, it is not a recurrency of the Charcot foot that troubled me 3-4 years ago and made me first walk with the foot in a cast for 3 months or so, like it was broken, to stabilize the situation. After that I walked for - was it one or two years - with a "simulated cast", a hard booth (leather orthosis) that worked like the plaster thing but was removable at night. And then when in Thailand I started to use my special sandals more and more - also the sandals made by orthopedist from an imprint of my feet so they should support the foot properly. Now I only use those sandals. If one foot starts to pain me, THEN it might have come back, and it might be either foot. Remember that when I had walked with the sandal until summer, then that foot started to swell a bit - still no pain - and I put on that orthosis for a while until that was down - the doc said it had been the right thing to do. Last winter when I packed the big travel bag, before the insane Insurance Office stopped me from going on my health trip, I had packed that orthosis in the bag, but not this winter.

Hm, just looked into my camera, horrible..... Wonder why the other Swedish guys have started to call me "the professor" ???


I simultaneously make another trip - putting clickable links on the Skåne map going with my work to put Linné's "Travel in Skåne [southern Sweden]" in 1749, this special copy where a guy in Skåne has made a lot of marginal notes a few years after the first version of that book was published - it is still reprinted. A reasonably unique project. It can continue to be developed, as there is more material, letters etc. written about that trip that was never included in the book. Hopefully the web design company of my wife Yui, http://mmwebdesign.no-ip.info, will get that job from the Archive too.

I was surprised when going out yesterday evening [this is the first thing I see when I come out from my room: down right is then the main village road, over that and via a small road towards the sea.] - no special day yet the restaurant was suddenly all full! I go there every 2-3 evenings as it is the best here around, my second favorite from 2 winters back is not there anymore. Anyway, jumped over yesterday and only picked up some grilled stuff from the lady a few corners away, and had in the room.

The sea looks as usual, only even harder for me to come real close, damn.

The other direction towards the mountainous middle of the island looks sort of different.

2007-11-06

Approaching . . .

The sombreness and darkness of All Saint's Day and this season is like a dead carpet all over. Less than three weeks until I go. Just now I have switched computer - I have taken care of the laptop Yui has used the last year, and she has taken the new Windows machine. I just cleared out the laptop, reformatted the disc, put in everything new, and the programs I will need.

I bought it in Bangkok a day before meeting Yui, when I still thought I could afford it... almost two years ago. But it has worked well. She too . . . . Even if she is sort of stressed now, in the top class for Swedish at Komvux, and now they will start to read two courses in parallel, also one in Swedish as a preparation for studies at the Swedish university.

Everything is just about ready now, tickets, visa, will order a travel insurance in Australia for when the insurance belonging to my home insurance, ends after 45 days. On the 20th the last visit to a doc, checkup of my old malign melanome. The following day to my old workplace and THEN it will be super to sit in the plane, first to London and then to Bangkok! A long nice sleep on an Australian plane, landing on the new already infamous Suvarnabhumi airport outside BKK.

My health is hardly perfect, but when was it . . . . First trip to SEAsia in 1975 maybe..., apart from the diabetes. The next time, in 1987, it felt a bit risky as an assortment of problems had started to pop up, but I felt I really HAD to go! It was during my 3 years in Genève. Next time with hesitation, after another 12 years, I realized that either I go or - I never go. My body had stiffened up, joints stiffer, anhyway I went to Indonesia as I had a group of penfriends there. It was fun..... I was doing a bit of web design teaching during that autumn and went to Thailand again that winter. And so it has continued every winter, except when FK, the Governmental Insurance Bureau, stopped me last winter - pure harassment, and I have reported it to the highest Ombudsman - and some weeks ago I finally got a letter that they will investigate.