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Johnny warned me it would be a lousy audience because high stakes gamblers could care less about shows, they just wanted to get back to the tables.
Clint Eastwood was in that audience and I wanted to do really well, show him what he missed by brushing off that lousy golfer at Pebble Beach. Johnny was right. The audience pretty much ignored the show, I sucked, and Clint Eastwood still has no clue who I am.
I would like to meet him one more time just to tell him how much I love his movie, El Camino. It's an all-time favorite.
Another Day in the Life, With Side Trips
Jintana and I woke up early, around 5 a.m., and lay in bed holding each other for awhile. I'm convinced human bodies are poorly constructed. When you're in bed cuddling with your wife, what do you do with the bottom arm? There's just no place for it. So much for Intelligent Design.
We held each other and drifted in and out of sleep. Then we got up and put water in the hot water pot. It has a magnetic plug and you have to jiggle it until the light goes on. We have a water guy who comes by in a pickup truck filled with cases of bottled water that is really cheap. It costs about 35 baht per case and a case holds 20 bottles of almost a liter each. 35 baht is just over a dollar. I'm going to my calculator now, and it comes to about 5 cents per bottle. I love Thailand. It's not Perrier, but it's safe and they deliver. Speaking of bottled water, did you know that Evian is "naive" spelled backwards?
We pour a 5-cent bottle of water into the hot pot and wash up.
This morning I had half a piece of ciabatta bread left over so I toasted it and ate it with chunky peanut butter.
Jintana's mom is not healthy so this morning I drove her and her mom to Suan Dok Hospital to see three doctors. I dropped them off and went to the Bagel House for breakfast. Oddly enough, there are three ex-Seattle comedians living in Chiangmai and I messaged one of them, Randy Thompson, to see if he wanted breakfast. Randy is, to put it mildly, unsettled. He moved here a couple of years ago from Hawaii but since then he has been to Spain, Malaysia, a bunch of U.S. cities and a couple other countries I've forgotten. He's moved to Spain twice, for good each time, and now he's back in Chiangmai. Once he moved to Spain to live happily ever after with a woman and it turned into a remake of Steven King's "Misery."