Yes, I had McDonalds on the trip. While the flavors were a tiny bit different, it was clearly a McDonald’s burger.

And before you get too snooty about going to Thailand and getting McDonald’s consider if someone from Thailand visited the US and, after being there two weeks, asks if there are any Thai restaurants around. We wouldn’t think twice about helping them.

I think the local variations of the menu are interesting. Here, there was a lot of pork on the menu. And there wasn’t any plain hamburgers. The sauces looked interesting, too.

Hot humid air injected into cold air-conditioned air results in fog. It’s, however to see a cloud inside a plane instead of outside.

We visited Phyket, Thailand and I saw this pillow. Came darn close to buying it for background to my video calls.

As one does. We are on Banana Beach somewhere off the southern coast of Thailand. You kind of have to look for it, but he (or she) is there.

We are sitting at the wedding reception, enjoying the meal, when my self-definition took hard blow. The conversation wandered from topic to topic, as conversations do, and, at some point, made it around to gray hair. There was some back and forth as the young people near us starting commenting on how they were starting to see gray hairs.

Me? I’ve had gray for a long time. My mental image of myself is “I am graying”. As in, I still have a lot more gray to go. My dad has an awesome head of silver hair and I hope & expect to get there some day. I am gray, there is no doubt.

So when one of the young people (who shall remain nameless) looked at me and asked,”How long have you been fully silver?”–I was at a loss for words. I’m not fully silver. But here was someone who thought I was. And it was someone whose opinion I hold in high regard, so I couldn’t just dismiss it as the ramblings of a young punk.

After gaping like a fish out of water for far too long, I tentatively offered that I didn’t think I was fully silver. There was much laughter and embarrassment.

Like most of my posts, this was several days ago. I’ve been thinking about my hair far too much since then.