Since the last post we’ve climbed a mountain (albeit a small one) with the assistance of two old Chinese ladies who climbed alongside, pointing the way and the shortcuts, in the hope that we buy some postcards and drinks from them. (We did. We felt terrible that they
had to climb a mountain in order to [...]
It’s been an eventful couple of days. Since crossing into mainland China we’ve decided that Hong Kong is like China with training wheels. Sure, it’s different and exotic, but many people speak English and being in Hong Kong is a lot like being in any other, large, Western metropolitan city. After crossing to the mainland [...]
Hong Kong (7 million people) has been great. It all started with the free upgrade to the “executive suite” room with a fabulous view of the HK skyline across the harbor (we have photos) and just got better from there.
HK is a vertical city. The buildings climbs up from the harbor along steep [...]
It’s 8:15am on Saturday morning, Hong Kong time, and we’ve just arrived at our hotel after a 13 hour flight. We slept quite a bit on the plane, so our bodies are still confused but fairly(?) well rested.
Everything on this end is going well. No snags so far. We took a double-decker bus from the [...]
Hibiscusfire asked if I had any photos from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. I don’t, but following are notes from my visit. (We’re back home, BTW).
Notes from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
October 3, 2006 - 4:20pm
I’m sitting in a seventeenth century pub waiting for a pint of Samuel Smith Bitters to settle. This pub was “Est. [...]
I know it’s only been one full day, but I’ve decided I really like London. It’s a fantastic city and in a weird way makes me miss New York. I guess this is because it’s so busy and cosmopolitan. The streets are packed with all sorts of people and as I walk I hear snippets [...]
October 1, 2006
Noon (GMT)
Heathrow Airport
I’m drinking an expensive cup of coffee (£1.79) waiting for Katy to arrive on a 1pm flight and trying not to think about how little sleep I got on my flight last night. . . this morning. . . yesterday. . . whatever.
Katy had to go to London for work and [...]
So… Peebo walks into a bar.
The bartender says, “Howdy, partner. Why no blog entries lately?”
Peebo says, “I been busy!!”
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Work
Just after my last post (way back at the end of October) the lull in my work cycle un-lulled. I started a new project for my former employer and I picked up two new clients. [...]
I just ate two slices of leftover Indian Pizza (Good stuff, Indian Pizza. Imagine Indian food on Pizza crust. It sounds weird but it tastes good. It even comes with that green sauce and red, onion chutney stuff.) and now I’m sitting on the couch watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Early Buffy. I time my [...]
It’s hot down here. I mean really, really… hot.
Consider this: Little Rock, Arkansas shares the same latitude as Tikrit, Iraq.
It has broken 100 degrees every day since we arrived, and the humidity is in the 70%-90% range—even at night. The average temperature for the month of August is 90 degrees (and this includes those overnight [...]