disregard the date and time

Please disregard the date and time of all my postings for next few weeks. For those that know me I’m sure you understand and for those who don’t, let me explain.


I’m a product of the early 80’s so unlike today where 5 year olds are whizzing around laptops and negotiating their way around website to website I’m still trying to figure out where the on/ off button is. Hell, if it doesn’t have gears and pulleys I don’t want anything to do with it. I have the Midas touch in reverse. When in comes to technology, everything I touch breaks or simply goes haywire (I miss the typewriter). I promised friends and family that when I got to China I would begin my indoctrination into becoming “technopolized” (e-mail, skype, blogging,etc...) so I could keep in touch and let them know how we are doing here. I figure what better place to begin my decent and brainwashing into the “dark side”. I mean, I am in China for goodness sake! They do brainwash here don’t they? And it should be a haven for technology since everything is made here..right? With no family (other than Christina who is always working) and few friends, that made all the ingredients for a good time to delve into the world of cyberspace…..WRONG!

Not only is the Internet speed slow (I never thought that I would pray for dial-up speed!!) but there’s the Great “Fire" Wall of China. I think someone told me that we have 5 censor gates that we go through every time that we access a website. (side note: if some government official is reading this right now, I’m just kidding about everything I just wrote.) China is the most beautiful, wonderful, fantabulous-est place on the earth…. but I digress.

The point is I finally figured how to blog in China. I can write and post but I cannot access my own blog. Wonderful stuff huh? Anyway, I’ve been keeping a hand written journal and I am going to transcribe some of the more interesting stuff here….so please disregard the date and time of all my postings for next few weeks.