Month: June 2013

New Printer – A Rant

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Setting up a new printer is easy. Setting it up on a wireless network in a foreign language is not. Read on if you like rants and other people’s pain… So, we bought a new printer the other day, an Epson L301. Don’t bother looking it up unless you can read Chinese, Korean, Japanese or any other of those ideographic languages. It’s only available in Asia. This ended up compounding my issues. Setting up and connecting the printer via USB was not a big deal. The quick start guide, while in Chinese, was very pictogaphic, much like those you find Continue Reading →

Resistance is Futile

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Not much is made in America anymore. But what is, is making its way to China…unfortunately. [slideshow_deploy id=’110′] Most notiably absent from the above slideshow is Taco Bell. Mexican food is not popular here, and neither was Taco Bell (insert jab here). Plus, unlike other western staples, they failed to adapt to eastern food culture. Taco Bell, while popular in 2004-2005, is now nowhere to be found in China. According to Google, the closest one is in Manila in the Philippines.    

All Liquored Up

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With our son’s wedding reception looming on the horizon, we found ourselves in the need of supplying a bottle of premium Chinese liquor on every table in the dinner hall. Twelve tables in all. We’ve been shopping around, and CarreFour has the best deals on Liquor. Plus you can sample them before you buy! So we emptied their stock of premium Maotai, picked up a couple bottles of aged Havana Club, and a whole bunch of free stuff for our extravagance. Because we cleared them out of this brand of Maotai, which included an already-opened (but barely used) bottle, they Continue Reading →

5 Days 16 Hours

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That’s how long it took. Leave one life and start another. Of course we’re only talking about this physical journey here. That’s me, Thor, from the Thor’s Days blog site. We left town on May 16th for a two day road trip to California. We stopped every 250-300 miles for a potty break, water and snacks. It all went well until we got to New Mexico. Then there was not a stitch of grass to be found (I’m sorry, but I only potty on grass). My caretakers did they best and found me little patches along the way, but it Continue Reading →