Will this project be a preview of Central Subway construction? Ha! Actually, I wonder why San Francisco streets get torn up so much and also wonder why they are never repaved properly. I have never seen such a mess in Paris and wonder why especially since that is an older city. What are they doing wrong here? Why are they continually digging something up and replacing it? Won't they ever get it right?

On another matter I was shocked this morning to find that there are now only about 30 THB to one U.S. Dollar. When I started going to Thailand in the late nineties, it was abot 42 Baht to the U.S. Dollar. Is this a weak dollar, a strong Baht, or some combination of both?