I'm about to make a visa run into Thailand, and I have to go to Hat Yai. I'm a little nervous about it. Someone at my guesthouse quit his teaching job and is moving because one of the recent, seeminy weekly, bombings was only two blocks from his house. All I'll do is take a bus up, cross the border, ride on to the bus station, then get on a bus back to Malaysia. There had been bombings when I came through before, and I wasn't worried. The odds are so slim. But now that I've met someone who was affected, it seems different.