I am finally done with the ridiculous amount of travel for work. I just added it up. Over the last five weeks I have flown just under 40,000 miles. A few more tidbits about the trip:

Total flights: 14
Books read: 6 (I think)
Best movie watched on a plane: Hot FuzzSpiciest food: Chengdu, China ( Read more... )

Now I just have to figure out when I can get out of Taiwan and on to Seoul.

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For the record, fish eyeball tastes fucking awful.  I'm glad I was fairly drunk first.

Well after being home for about 8 days I'm back in Asia. Right now I'm in Taiwan. Next will be South Korea and Japan before heading home. In case you were wondering yes, that was almost enough time home to get over the jet lag from the last trip to Asia. I just finally got around to posting a couple more pictures from that trip.


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I had every intention of posting more when I was away last week. However it turns out that LiveJournal is one of the sites that is blocked by the Chinese government. I also discovered that wikipedia was blocked. Interesting enough they had blocked all images on flickr, but not the site itself. I found that almost spiteful. "Here, we won't ( Read more... )

I'm pretty beat from having an overnight flight from Bangalore to Singapore. Before leaving India I did get the time to go for a quick walk near the hotel. The scenery does go from palatial hotel and a couple of high tech building to utter poverty in about a block. And then for no particular reason what so ever there is a TGI Friday's in the ( Read more... )

As most of you probably know, this is the time of year where I end up doing a fairly ridiculous amount of travel for work. Right now I am sitting in my hotel room in Bangalore India. I honestly can't tell you what India is like Aside from the hotel and the airport, all I have seen of the city was during a 10 minute cab ride last night at 1AM. ( Read more... )

I was walking back into the apartment about an hour ago having just come back from playing hockey. I was about to go toss an empty water bottle into the recycle bin next to the house when I heard a rustling coming from the general vicinity of the garbage cans ( Read more... )

Stuff has been going on.

I got on my bicycle and rode the PMC again this year. It was two solid days of good riding. In the end I managed a 17 mph average over 84 miles on the first day, and 16 mph over 76 miles on the second day. More importantly I did raise a bunch of money for a good causeOn an amusing note, the first time I got back on my ( Read more... )