A most excellent day. It’s super-hot out, which is great for tiny people like me. I freeze to death in the winter and long for days like this. Spent it mostly outside, watched Unforgiven again, and finished The Quiet American. Now on to Foundation, the first in the Foundation series by Asimov. Well. You probably knew that. I’ll try to finish the trilogy before I leave.

My Vietnam entrance visa arrived a few days ago, so that is done now. I’ve solved my camera memory problem with two more 8Gb cards, bringing my amount of available CF storage to 40 Gb. I am pretty confident that will be enough. If I start getting low, I can always switch the camera to JPEG mode. I’ve been waffling on whether or not to bring the big tripod with me. The Gorillapod I had with me in Morocco worked well, but it can be hard to do landscape photos at sunrise/sunset with it, since it sits so low to the ground. The big tripod fits in my pack, right down inside. I can pack around it.

One of my all time favourite “Bay area” thrash bands is Forbidden. Here they are doing Step by Step, in Oulu, Finland (where I will be in September). As you will hear during the song info, the band is very much anti-drug.