Encounter

Gayle and Todd came over to view our place last night.

Todd, who's originally from LA, wanted a room to nap in the afternoon, on a regular basis. Just that! Gayle, whose former home city is Toronto, was here to accompany her pal.

Todd is a moonlighter and so he has two schedules - morning until early afternoon, and late afternoon until nine. He thought it would be ideal to have a place to chill between shifts.

Randall and I showed him one of our apartments, A5, where he could take the main bedroom. New York's Richard is in the Philippines again, and he gave us permission to show or even rent the room out to anyone while he's not there. It is very sweet of him. We'll see if an arrangement w/ Todd will materialize. Just to nap in the afternoon and go back to his house on the other side of the river when the night falls.

People say if you want to keep in touch with the psyche of Bangkok's upper working class, become a taxi driver 'cause you will get to hear every single thing as if you weren't there.

Doing vacation rental/rooms for rent might not allow you an access to the mind of your tenants, but it does lead you to meet and even become friend w/ interesting people, and there's a lot of them out there.