Alright, woohoo!!
Permanent internet connection has been established! I can post and stuff again!

It's my third day in Thailand now. The impact of “this is my life now” is sloooooowly starting to dawn on me as we settle bit by little bit. Everything is very different, the pace of life here is unlike anything I've grown use to back in Canada. All of the worries which plagued me in Canada (mostly monetary) no longer exist here. And there are so many more luxuries available to us here than there ever were in Calgary (the luxury of eating out for every meal of every day, a bi-weekly personal masseuse, and a maid to clean the home, for example). As Sean put it, it all seems almost [i]too[/i] good, everything is [i]too[/i] easy. It’s only the end of day three, so there is plenty of time for some kind of equalizing “down-side” to make itself apparent and drag me back down to earth from my current euphoria. And I am certain it will, in good time.

Until then, I will work, and eat, and live, and love in Thailand with this dumb smile on my face, and a feeling in my chest which I can only identify as the side-effect of a really intense and almost exhausting infatuation with my current environment. Well, it’s that, or it’s my bronchitis finally starting to clear up. Maybe both. Probably both.
Alright, that’s enough love-struck blathering from me today, lets talk about what's important: the bugs!!!

As it turns out, insects make themselves pretty scarce during the dry season. I was a little dissapointed by the lack of creepy crawlies everywhere, since the last time I visited thailand was during the wet season, when everything was out and about, always! But, dispite it not being the best season for easy bug hunting, I've already come across two novel critters of impressive size!:
A female hercules beetle!: https://31.media.tumblr.com/ca9ba8309df55a8654fb7fa329db8583/tumblr_inline_n0qcliZOaB1qekl5z.jpg
and this huge snail I found in the garden this morning (she was the length of my palm!!): https://31.media.tumblr.com/57f50acbdf995124c9cb40a23eddf43d/tumblr_inline_n0scfmbLbk1qekl5z.jpg

More buggy photos to come, as I find them! (There was a huuuuuge black carpenter bee [Xylocopa tenuiscapa] which I found and admired today...but I spent too long staring at her that by the time I was ready to take her photo, she had quite enough with me and lazily buzzed away. She was the heftiest lass I had ever seen!)

I hope you're all doing well!!