Mike's Thoughts
Mike's Thoughts
Michael Perry
Welcome to Mikes Thoughts. Mostly day to day ramblings on life in Cambodia or other places in Asia and beyond. I write on coffee, thoughts, ideas, whatever I decide. Hope you enjoy the stay.
Latest Posts
Moving to pika to write. the blog is here. I'll not be updating this blog going forward.
Some things I have thought of whispering into the void. Considered moving the blog to pika. They offer an easy way from iA Writer to publish via the included micropub thing. It just works. Hit a publish button. It all becomes a draft...
Sometimes the act of just sitting with the coffee gives me this desire to go on. To write on things that perhaps I left behind or that somehow passed me by. There’s never any rush here to do a thing. To find an answer. It’s like a...
Khmer New Years is upon us. This is the third new year we get to celebrate. This one with water and stuff and a lot going on downtown we will not end up doing. It mostly is a time for families to get back together, enjoy some food, drink...
Woke up this morning realizing I need to get away from the house. There is something here which sometimes just doesn’t feel right. My wife tries to do all the things for me to make this feel like home. Nice meals. Lots of love. Trying to...
Some things will forever disturb me living in Southeast Asia. I am not close to or friends with many expats. There are a few that I keep track of mostly by meeting them every so often or watching their YouTube vlogs. I wanted to discuss...
It’s my morning. Maybe my best times here are before people start going. From some arbitrary time most mornings, Cambodian people are out. Then there’s the sound of motos ramping up, conversations cycling and kids playing at being kids....
Today I decided with my first brain I shall go walk and have coffee somewhere. Like usual. I enjoy sharing the places I get to every so often on the fediverse and maybe a photo here and a story that somehow connects it all. The writing...
Today I had other desires for coffee. I would have walked to this place I have not been for some time. Enjoyed the morning with their $1 iced americano. Thought and wrote and read some. Lately I’ve been enjoying Current Reader a lot. Its...
We went for breakfast this morning to the new location of an old favorite place that used to be by the river. We really enjoyed the location by Siem Reap river. It had this essence I enjoyed. These views of the people, places, and things...
I was happening to be reading along on reddit which I still enjoy doing. Mostly these days I will use an RSS reader that shows a particular subreddit along with comments. News Explorer on Mac and iOS does this well. I don’t do analog...
Lately life has interrupted the desire to write about it. Too many events I am left to go noodle on. Or perhaps overthink as my wife claims. I look at the events and people like an examination of sorts. Perhaps like the old, the...
This morning started too early. I think before 430am. This bothers me greatly. I would like more and better sleep and it’s way too easy to just blame the current living conditions because I think it pervades how I feel, what I think, how...
Somewhere Friday just went. Most likely in some escapade of restless sleep. For whatever reason Saturday heralded an early morning and now my wife makes pancakes for me. I don't do breakfast so often so when I want, she happily does the...
Sometimes I admit to human weakness. Well probably often really. Lately I’ve felt this need. This desire to just go sit and drink beer downtown. Today I realized I needed to actualize that desire. So I went. I like going to sit at this...