Friday, May 25, 2007

New apartment

here is a vid of my new place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hZMuFN2oY

8o's TV

You know, when I was younger I really didn't really understand the iner meaning of all the shows I used to watch. Now that I am older and understand them better, they mean even more to me than they did before.

My place.

My place is in a building with 30 floors, there are all kinds of things in the building. Residents, offices, personal restraunts that deiliver to apartments throughout the building. My place is 50 meters squared, it's small but just right for one person. I have dark wood floors, a big living room with a small kitchen that is part of it, the living room also doubles as the dining room. My bathroom is small, but I do have a western style toilet, a bath tub (super rare, I have people setting up appointments already.), and this really cool see through sink. I now realize that what we have back in the valley aren;t apartment buildings. My place and Toms place are apartment buildings, all the doors open into a hall way, it's loud, and any work being done with heavy tools in one apartment can be heard throughout the whole building. Someone elses sink drain runs through my bathroom, and I am sure mine runs through someone else's. My bedroom is nice and big and has a nice western style mattress, I am sleeping really well now. I spend most of my time in my bedroom, it has it's own AC unit, I also have an AC unit in the living room area. It's a good way to save on juice. I have nice fast internet now so I am going to shoot a video of the place for you guys tonight, I can prolly get it on youtube tomorrow. Speaking of which. If you guys want to see a vid of what it was like on lunar new years eve click the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgmaBMF8lzM

if you guys haven't seen my Arboretum and Taxi ride vid then check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xozP40buxyI

and finally if you haven;t seen booze in china check this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nac9b7ykgk

Anyhow guys, I have a very busy day ahead of me. Tomorrow is my busy day so I will be going to bed early. Enjoy the vids and be safe and carefull, the world will take advantage of you if it can

Thursday, May 24, 2007

The internet

Well, I was on the internet for a brief while at my residence last night. I was then logged off suddenly and now get the 691 error when I try to log in. I did this type of troubleshooting for a couple years of my life so I have some idea of what to do, long story short i tried all of the standard procedures for fixing error 691 (When I worked for MSN we considered this error almost unfixable.) it was often a network issue, it did rain really hard last night, but no one else is having trouble with their internet, just me. So I have a feeling that something has happend to my account, or for one reason or another I am not inputting the password and such properly. This is unlikely as I watched the installer plug them into the login screen yesterday and did nothing special. It is almost as though my account is dead, and after less than a day of connection at that. Whats more I still seem to hit a cap of 25 k when I dload, long story shorter they are coming this afternoon. I hope to be back on by tonight.
My refrigerator is finicky, it's max level of cold is 7, it goes clear down to 1, if I have it on anything less than 6 and a half nothing happens, i tried turning it down a tad to save some juice and all my icecream melted :(, well I guess it's good that I spend most of my time in my bedroom. Keeping my living room warm and dark will prolly allow me to run the refrigerator at that level without much difference in the cost of juice. Anyhow it's the moving into a new place blues.
Been watching a few old shows lately that some of you may remember. I am almost all the way through the first season of A.L.F. You know that show holds up pretty well, it's still kinda funny. Hard to believe that Ron Reagan was the president back then, heard his voice in one episode and freaked a little. I had though Bush Sr. was pres then but I guess I was wrong about that. Airwolf has been on late at night on the sci fi channel so I have been enjoying that, it's a great show really. Also old movies Weird Science, the goonies, monster squad, never ending story, blade runner, krull, ghost busters, time rider, buckaroo banzai. Anyhow you get the idea. Anyway it's odd how all those 80's movies were about how thinking outside of the box was sorta strange. anyone into 80's stuff should check out www.retrojunk.com great site and it lists shows and movies by their popularity. I don't know if I agree all the time but sometimes it makes sence. Anyhow I have to prepare for classes.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Moved out

Hey all, sorry about the long gap in posts but I have been busy moving out of what is now Tom's place. I have moved into a small apartment by myself, tom and I were great room mates but Stoerms arrival made things a little close for me and I thought it best to move out a couple weeks earlier than planned. I am glad I have a smaller place instead of the huge one. So much easier to keep cool and warm and such. Anyway all, I don't have the internet set up yet and I am nto sure when I will have it set up either as i have to get someones help with it. I hope it will be soon as I have a lot of d loads to finish snd such, although we were very good about it, it will be nice not to have to share bandwidth anymore. Anyway guys I am going to have a very busy week ahead of me.

Friday, May 04, 2007

picky eaters

The people drive me out of my head, especially picky eaters in China. All of them are foreigners for one thing, most chinese people know better than to be picky with their food. I have one friend who is a vegetarian, and he yells at the manager at Micky d's when they say they can't take the sausage off the egg mcmuffin. Or my favorite, "I don't like spicy food." Then go home ... these are things about China that are hard to avoid. People don't like or can't make things special sometimes, and frankly people like their food spicy here. Damn, I'm just venting.