at sea

greetings

left the dock yesterday at about 4:20 pm. i had fun in phuket town, went out at
night and tried the local whiskey. i dont like whiskey, but i cant drink the
local beer. i wish i had spent more time learning thai, but asking how to say
things (like thank you korn-koon-cup for men, korn-koonku for women) is
apppreciated by locals. everybody likes a good joke (esp. when i am self
depracating; e.g. i played santa claus and a cowboy shooting guns in the hotel
lobby one night; they want me back for xmas)

taking ginger caps, so i am not sea sick, just a little quesy all over my body n
(prob jet lag more than anythying). the ocean color is the most blue i have ever
seen it.

very hot when there is no cloud in the sky. i seat at least a gallon two days
ago.

i already did some major boo-boos (mr clumso here). left some data back at the
lab. i am baby sitting the sattelite tracker because it does not work. we are
dl'ing 7X100 MB files. takes 10MB for 1 hr... i have selected our first core
site and chris adjusted it only a little. we should be there early tomorrow am.
cant wait.

just discussed the device i invented with the coring science crew salty's. we'll
see if it does not work. (if it works, we'll never know if we needed it. i
designed a shock absorber to absorb 30,000 #.

no pics for now. gotta go. love to all, as i should survive as today we got our
first education re: safety first and excape rafts

-j