I decided to stay in Battambang for another day. There wasn’t really any good reason for it except that I was just too tired to make any plans last night. In fact as I write this, the next morning, I don’t think that I’ll be going anywhere except walking around the city today. Maybe if they rent bikes here I’ll go for a bike ride later.

I got back from dinner and went to my room and started transferring my images to the computer when I realized that I couldn’t find the adapter for my small video camera. I guess the lack of sleep just kind of made me a bit neurotic because I considered it my mission to find it. I emptied every bag I had on the bed, repacked everything, and generally searched every possible hiding place for the adapter. I finally gave up and resigned myself to being and idiot and moved on to my regular camera. The whole search took about an hour, maybe a little bit less, but not more than 10 minutes after I’d given up on ever finding it, I reached in my pocket and there it was. How does that happen? I know I checked my pockets about 10 times. I think it was pretty much nothing more than a lack of sleep.

I woke up at 445 from the sound of people talking and dishes being washed. I never mentioned that the hotel gave me a room in the lobby. It’s so strange to be on the level of the lobby when people are doing things. My only guess is that the room used to be for a night clerk or maybe an owner, and now they rent it out. Anyway, besides being just weird being on the ground floor, it is also very loud.