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Final Preparations

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Flights are (re-)confirmed.

I checked through my Karrimor daypack, removed a broken buckle and deemed it roadworthy. It’s currently rumbling along in the washing machine, along with the jeans I’ll take. The sewing kit is on the desk next to me, ready to repair the thing with when it’s out of the machine, along with the silk dress I ripped on a fence in Sri Lanka.

Then I gave myself a crew cut while thinking about accommodation in Bangkok. Losing that head of hair already makes me feel lighter, as if a weight has been lifted. It helps that itis sunny outside.

Now, if I coud just finish the last 18742 words of my NaNovel (current draft)…

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Can we have a new laser facility–pretty please??

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

The council has sent me a surprise letter re. the Eastern Area Planning Committee meeting on 23rd November when the small matter of the Replacement Laser Facility (Orion) at our Friendly Neighbourhood Atomic Weapons Establishment will be discussed.

As with garden sheds or loft extentions, if you want to build a new laser facility to develop the next generation of nuclear weapons, you must first ask the local council for planning permission. The council will then solicit public opinion and if you write to them, you will be invited to speak at the meeting of the relevant planning sub-committee which deals with the application.

The fact that this facility is in contravention of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty can sadly not be considered by the council, but they might consider that, aside from being a scar on the landscape and potentially hazardous in itself, it also makes our nice little village even more of a terrorist target.

Who knows? I’m away by then, so I’m sending John who still wears the peace badge from the Easter Demo on the collar of his jacket.

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COR15–The conclusion.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

The Palm stays at home! Might take the card reader, in case I get that camera.

I don’t now why this makes me feel naked when I have never in fact travelled with a PDA before.

On a final note, I’ve just taken the batteries out of that shitbox in order to retire it when it occured to me that I might as well format the remaining card. I stuck the batteries back in and there was no ‘welcome’ screen—it had kept hold of its settings. Changing the batteries one at a time (as recommended by Palm) certainly doesn’t help matters—it’s a lottery either way. Still, I’m quite teary as I pack the thing away. If at least the file formatting had worked, I might have taken my chances with it.

Here’s my final exchange with the nice people at BlueNomad:
[read on]

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Paypal protects sellers from buyers

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

More hassles. It seems that everybody is conspiring against me finishing my NaNovel—as if it would matter to the Gods…

It does, however, matter to me. Life is throwing its bickering, little irritations at me. Last week, I spent what seemed like days ferrying the laptop to a local computer shop to have it evaluated, chase up those guys, collecting it back (repairing the damn bike in the interim), faxing the evaluation to PayPal (essentially it said ‘beyond repair’ which at least vindicated me, even if I had to shell out 15 quid for it) and chasing up a response which came, oddly enough, on Sunday. Meanwhile, Paypal had spent the entire time nagging me that their deadline would run out on Monday.

Now I’ve received another message: I am required to return the thing to the seller, paying for postage and packaging myself. I have to do it now; and even though I have invested so much time in this that by now I could have bought a new laptop from the money I could have earned, I have to log on regularly and provide tracking information and stand by for further action. And even then I may not get a refund for the original �194+ I paid for the thing, but only for the Paypal maximum protection of 100-odd quid, which has been mostly usurped by the fees and postage I had to pay in order to qualify for the refund in the first place.

The seller isn’t liable to refund any of this. He’s probably also free to re-advertise the laptop on Ebay and rip off the next sucker. Nice little earner.

Never, EVER, buy anything of value on Ebay! Never!

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COR14 the never-ending Saga

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Understand that ALL of my problems during these two months (yes, it will have been exactly two months by the time I’ll step on that plane) derive from the fact that the Palm m125 has no word processing software and keyboard drive in ROM. If it did, there would be no problems!

Yep, the saga ain’t over. Here’s what I wrote to BlueNomad support today:

[read on]

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One week to go…

Monday, November 14th, 2005

…and travel is sneaking to the forefront of my mind, even though (or perhaps because) I’ve hit a rough spot in my NaNovel. Watching ‘The Two Towers’ yesterday didn’t help. After that piece of storytelling, why bother to learn how to write (lol)? But I guess I can still attempt travel writing.

Which brings me to my sister who picked this morning to call me from the airport (she’s off to Gran Canaria for a week) and tell me about a new waterproof digital camera she wants to give me as a present: The Pentax Optimo WP (5mp). It sounds like the gadget of my dreams. I would love to photo blog. I know, cameras get in the way of the experience, laddi-da, but the idea is to take it with me on special outings just to take pictures and leave it in the depths of my backpack at other times. Take pictures in dripping rain forest and snorkelling on coral reefs and keep it in the damp depths of my backpack, more likely.

Anglers, canoeists and wet-weather trekkers all swear by it. But what will backpackers say? Does it last (there are problems with hardware deterioration and software bugs)? Does it live up to life on the road? (Direct image storage on SD cards in JPEG format is a must–no uploading fancy software! From card to Flickr to Denniblog (for edited, low res images) in one easy session!)

I wish my sister’d been in touch a bit sooner 😉 On the other hand, I would not have been tempted to buy this thing online after my recent experience with Ebay. No thanks! I want to touch it, feel it, look at it before I buy it. So I hope that any of the real shops around here store it. This could be the thing that makes the trip. Here’s to photoblogging, the marriage of photography and journal 🙂

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Ten Days to go…

Friday, November 11th, 2005

…and I’m crapping it. Because NaNoWriMo is such a whirl, I’ve hardly gotten around even to think about this trip, let alone hang out on the travel boards, read my ‘Wildlife Guide to SE Asia’ (too heavy to drag along) or book my insurance/accommodation in Bangkok etc. Now I’m experiencing an ominous sense of unease about all this. To top it all, John is away this week and as a result I seem to have lost my appetite—wtf?

It’s ridiculous but it is as well that this has happened because it indicates what an effect this whole venture could have on him. It worries me. We’ll have to talk.

I would be justified in calling the whole thing off. But on the other hand, I think that would be wrong. After NaNo is over, I won’t have a focus any more. If I don’t get this writing thing off the ground (and I still don’t think I can write fiction very well), I will be stuck in this village in the middle of winter and slowly go crazy. That is not a good idea—I speak from experience.

Besides, maybe John is really coming to Bali for two weeks in January. I think he will, but he would never do it if I wasn’t there waiting for him. So what’s stopping me?

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With a Bang

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Funny how customs change as you move a little down the road. Guy Fawke’s Night is not celebrated in Scotland; if anything people there mourn the fact that the good Guy’s gunpowder plot did not succeeed. Here in England it’s a different story.
[read on]

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Defense Against Vampire Leeches

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

I haven’t gone away—it’s just that I’m rather busy with NaNo at the moment. But yesterday in the pub I met a mate (it was great to see him again!) who’ll be off to SE Asia in January and we had a good time talking travel.
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