Truly the BEST photographer in Western Washington!  We tried to throw him off a cliff in China to give the competition a chance.  Still no luck for them I suppose.

We knew it was time for a new laptop when the frame on our Dell started to crack and the power supply had a short in it which was causing the power to come on and go off sporadically whenever we would use it.  (This wouldn't be much of a problem, except for the fact…

Well, the San Antonio Spurs won the NBA Finals (yawn) yet again.  Tony Parker was the most valuable player.  Regardless of his obvious skills, can’t we all agree that French people just shouldn’t be allowed to play in the NBA (much less be allowed to excel at it!)  I don’t have a good reason for…

I love Google earth.  The satellite photos work well if you have coordinates…because I just found our apartment complex.  It’s a little blurry, but much improved from the images they used to have.  The red arrow is pointing to our actual apartment building.  That fuzzy gray splotch (near the point of the arrow) is the…

The ring must be destroyed…again!  I’m going to do it.  I’m going to accompany Frodo and Samwise and the other members of the fellowship to the very molten edge of Mount Doom.  (Hey, somebody’s got to do it…) The running time for the extended version of the trilogy = 682 minutes (a mere 11 hour…

This week I was posed with a moral dilemma.  The NBA Finals is being televised here on Chinese television (CCTV 5).  Great news, right?! Wrong. The time difference between China and America (east coast) is 12 hours.  This means that most of the games are on at 9 a.m. (weekdays) here in Xining.  Most of…

Today, overall, was a successful day 2 on the Xining basketball courts.  I did some jogging over the weekend so my endurance was up a bit.  Here’s the breakdown… Injuries to report:  The last play of the game I got poked in the eye.  It wasn’t too bad and I still made the shot, so…