Well, we are leaving tomorrow for our trip to Tokyo. The trip is a bit unusual in that we actually booked it a few weeks ago. This is a good thing in that I think we have recovered from the tedium of travel booking, but we’ve sort of ignored doing alot of research on what exactly we are going to do once we get there.
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Well just to prove it to Vicky that I don’t have EVERYTHING i want. Here is a new espresso machine that caught my eye recently at the friendly neighborhood Starbucks. (where mostly the question is just short or tall).
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who needs snowflakes when you can have xmas throwing star.
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Looks like this year we will spend xmas in Tokyo. After last years close call with the Tsunami, Thailand was a hard sell (not to mention bird-flu). So Apple store, electronics, stationary stores, what else could one want… maybe some warm weather.
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Here is a picture of me and the misses outside of our sugarcube bungalow.
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Its funny how people get so bent out of shape because of a bunch of stray spam emails in their inbox. In addition to the online spam, here in Shanghai we are also subjected to the human spammers… and they are everywhere
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The little Lancaster Pennsylvania pretzel company has come to China opening its first store in Shanghai.
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The cold weather has finally really come to Shanghai. I think it had lulled all of us into thinking that the days of nights in the 40s and days in the upper 50s would last till Spring.
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For all my complaining about all the various nuances of American life that are missing in Shanghai, I have to say this place really is starting to spoil me.
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