today...better!

Namaste all! Today was such a huge contrast from yesterday...got lots of sleep and found some mosquitoe spray to keep the little buggers off me all night...couldn't believe it! Didn't wake up once...and slept for 11 hours.

Best of all I think the hospital was sensing my frustrations with not having a computer to work on the research they insisted I do while here...so they set up an old clunker from 1996 for me in the research lab, with internet and all! I literally sat down and churned data for 5 hours straight without getting up...my nerd starvation has been satisfied...for now *laughs in geeky fashion*

And to top it off, I learned I can recharge my mp3 player using the usb ports in the computer...its now fully charged and I'm listening to some slammin' tunes for the first time in 3 weeks...if you haven't heard The Bug's "London Zoo" or Clark's "Turning Dragon" albums, illegally download them...post-haste!

Gonna get back to work...nothing else interesting except that some guy who owns a nearby restaurant nearby followed me for 3 blocks insisting I try the "standard yum-yum dish". I was dying to know what it was, but didn't want to encourage his persistence...

In other solemn news my wife's urban planning office laid off 10% of their workers today...luckily she wasn't one of them, but the economic pinch seems to be closing in from all directions. If you or someone you know is in this kind of trouble, have them move to Nepal...lunch costs about 20 cents (but if you're not brown, prepare to pay 20-30 times that) lolz!

Its been 18 days since I've been in Nepal and haven't had the runs (although I'm having a bit of a scare right now - is it gas or something more sinister? Hmmm....)

Mete