12 THE PARTS STACK UPThe following day, they interviewed nine more prospective participants. There were six more logged onto Dave’s mainframe, to whom Bob asked Dave to send an automated text message saying something along the lines of: ‘Thank you for your interest in our project. Due to the unexpected overwhelming response, it may take a while for us to contact you in person, but we will do soon’. Dave said he would ask Gareg’s wife Jem to help him translate it into Thai and type it up with a dual-language keyboard.
The overnight message from the committee was that a way had been found to get the ‘presents’ to Dave and they would let him know the full details in their next communication at sevenish that evening, Bangkok time.
Bob spoke to Gareg at breakfast.
“Jim and I are going to sta
