Oddball Update

As I mentioned a few posts back, lately I’ve rented a few video games from the local video store. The way I figure it, it’s better to spend $5 or $6 and find out a game is crap rather than drop $50-$60 and find out a game sucks.

So, last night I was browsing around the INTARWEB, and I decided to check out Amazon.com. Now, I haven’t ordered anything from Amazon for years, but I decided to check their prices and availability on a few things.

This post is coming to you in color, on location, very expensively…not from Thailand. Or China. Or the Eastern Hemisphere.
It’s also going to potentially be quite long, so strap yourselves in…or ignore it altogether. Your choice.

Yesterday, I slipped and fell on a patch of ice.
Today, I cycled in a t-shirt and shorts.
This weekend, it may snow.
Welcome to March in Michigan! More to come later, perhaps. I’m busy watching anime right now.

It’s an interesting day. Actually, that adjective — “interesting” — is just a whole lot of nothing. Ever noticed how we use that word to describe things when we really don’t have any feelings about them?

Today was quite an adventure for us here in China.

Our globetrotting continues, this time taking us to Chengdu, China, where we are presently staying the night at the apartment belonging to — if I’ve got this right — my boss’ wife’s parents.

D’OH! I just had Sunday night’s super incredibly revolutionary episode of Battlestar Galactica SPOILED by a post on a totally non-television message board. How did I come to see it?

And now, for part two of today’s rant-stravaganza: The self-appointed American “lifestyle police.”
I spent much of my youth getting closely acquainted with humanity’s penchant for casting out things and people that they consider different and strange.

During the last few weeks I’ve spent in Thailand, I’ve kept up with things making news back home in the United States.