My bladder won’t let me sleep yet so I’m idly surfing. This just had me in stitches.

After spending a fair proportion of the day tweaking Random Bozo’s travelogue (putting up scans of relevant maps and the beautiful wedding invitations he received), I’m rather upset to have found some technical issues.

I find that the file for the 28th of June can’t be uploaded and that the files for 29th June to 2nd July are misbehaving. Local copies render just fine and dandy but, when uploaded to my webspace, the descriptions of these days and these pages’ footers don’t appear.

I tried uploading the files into an alternative webspace: the file of the 28th still refuses to to upload and the rendering problems with the other days recurs. So it’s something I’ve done wrong here, rather than my main webhost misbehaving.

I’ll copy the content into fresh copies of the template and see if these behave. Meanwhile, I’m very relieved that only 5 days’ files are misbehaving but I’m a little sad that it’s not all going to plan and that you are currently denied the chance of seeing Random Bozo’s misadventures on these days.

I got some time with my host’s scanner last night and so am now uploading images of some bus, train and other tickets to relevant pages of Random Bozo’s travelogue. The enhanced pages are

• March 15, 17, 25
• April 04, 28, 30
• May 04, 05, 13, 15, 18, 19
• June 15, 17.

If you have a sudden urge to see Indian train tickets, etc, point your browser at

sites.ecosse.net/mycelium/142006/03_asia_2006/MONTH/DAY_NUMBER/DAY_NUMBER.html

where MONTH is 03March, 04April, etc, and DAY_NUMBER is 01, 02, etc.

Viewing of Random Bozo’s travelogue is, of course, not compulsory.

Photos of Random Bozo’s doings up to the end of June are currently uploading. I’m very pleased that he kept a diary and wrote it up in his blog quite often. The thought of producing all that prose, even at my low writing standards, is scary.

Less than two months to go…

Within a few minutes, photo 1500 from Random Bozo’s misadventures in Asia will be online. The travelogue now goes up to 9th June: Random Bozo was still in high-range Kerala and on this day he was walking in the mountains on the Kerala/Tamil Nadu. He hoped to see some elephants but the photos only show a strange monkey wearing a purple shirt.

Apparently I have. This comment in blog was not meant as an insult to him – or anyone else. It was an admission that I have been committing a grammatical error all through my career as a ‘publisher’s minion’. Ignorance is no defence – I should have read Fowler ages ago!

I apologise to if he has been upset by my comment. I’ve always enjoyed his blog entries – I find them entertaining, pithy, often thought-provoking and always much better than my deluges of uniformative, tedious drivel.

I had a job interview today. At the end of the interview, I was told that the potential employers would inform the successful candidate by phone this afternoon and write to the rest of us. They haven’t phoned and so I’ve not been very happy this evening.

As I type this, my beloved Pismo is also uploading my Indian travelogue up to the end of May. This is when I first arrived in Nedumkandam, the small village in Kerala where I spent over two months with an Indian family. Seeing these photos has added to the lump in my throat.

However, I received an email from Ajeesh on Friday. He seems fine and tells me that his and his friends’ social programmes are carrying on. The latest is Kurutholakalari and this event is to bring together 1000 students and 200 elders to pass on cultural knowledge. (kurutola means ‘the tender leaf of the coconut tree and kalari means ‘teaching place’.)

Doesn’t that just make you want to grab your lunghi or saree and head to Kerala?

… specifically an African golden web orb spider.

I haven’t found the original report about this but I did find this.

There’s now well over 1000 of my India photos and mini-movies up here.

Not quite sure about

You are the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

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