• Thanks to everyone who recommended their top 5 (plus) "under the radar" music selections.  You’ve given me a lot to listen to. Pandora was a good suggestion as well.  I’ve found a lot of new artists through that…which has lead me to even more new artists, etc.  I appreciate it.

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  • These guys are traveling around the world in 444 days…. I just found their blog and am going to try to convince them to change their itinerary to include Xining (somehow?) I have not read many of their actual posts yet, but I saw on a few that they mentioned being Christian. I can’t imagine…

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  • Sweet!  Skype has video conferencing now. Break out those webcams, everybody!

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  • OK, I need some help.  I am looking for some new music.  There are millions of artists out there and the past few nights I’ve been staying up to the wee morning hours browsing through I-Tunes trying to find something striking. I’ve found some good music, but nothing that has really grabbed me.  I guess…

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  • "It’s interesting how you sometimes have to leave home before you can ask difficult questions, how the questions never come up in the room you grew up in, in the town in which you were born. It’s funny how you can’t ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a…

  • As we speak Christa just sang/rapped the entire theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I’m not sure whether to be really impressed or really embarrassed by this. Then again that’s not a show I grew up watching, so I think I’ll be impressed.

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  • Our plane touched down in Xining at around 2 p.m. today (yesterday now).  We were gone just 5 days short of a month.  It seemed strange to land here again, to see the mountains covered with snow all around our little valley, and to think of this as our "home" now. Being back in our…

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  • talking vacation…no laughing matter

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  • stool pigeons

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  • the hat trick

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