We had a completely commentless week last week. On both my blogs. Boo-hoo.
My 'Big Four', Tulsa, Moonrat, The Mothman, and The British Cowboy all forsook me. For a whole week. Thank heavens for (the rarer, but perhaps more reliable?) OMG!
At least Moonie and The Cowboy have checked in again today. Is Mothman still lurking? And The Bookseller? And FG, HiK? And Tulsa - what has happened to Tulsa?! Where are you, my dear??
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Sorry - spent the majority of the week without internet access on a training course, and the rest persuing documents.
i, for one, died. i can't speak for anyone else, though.
Rare but reliable. I like it. I suppose you can thank my daddy, who was voted most dependable by his high school class. Perhaps it filtered down.
I have visited your blog quite frequently recently (on the rare occasions that my 14-hour days permit), but just can't seem to get the damned thing to work for me...the little blue bar at the bottom hovers stubbornly at 'just below 100%'and when I try to post a comment it just freezes up. Your crap censors or my crap server? Looks like I might have got lucky on this occasion...let's press the little 'submit' button and see if the computer explodes :-)
Whee...it worked!!!
Well, the blogs are hosted outside of China, so there really shouldn't be any problems of access for anyone not in China themselves. Unless the British (or Bulgarian?) government is censoring you, Mothman.....
It sounds as if Blogger's just been going through a glitchy spell. Keep persevering.
boo, no explosions, no fun.
I have had a very very calm week. but then, today, I met the bureau chief of an Big newspaper and learned all about rocket science, heard the money/professional woes of a Nepali village-to-Beijing-riches life, debated on Uighur propaganda, and regained (mysteriously) in-country access to blogspot. It's like the universe is making up for my over-calm week by just throwing all sorts of stuff at me today.
Now, the question is, with blogspot regained, shall I get any sleep tonight??
At least in Bulgaria they have the excuse that they are a crap, third world country with a screwed-up, post-communist, tenth rate telephone network and hence the web runs like liquid mud. The UK is allegedly the world's fourth richest industrial nation and I pay through the nose from heavily-taxed money for my internet connection...so what excuse do THEY have???
Ms. Mothman (yes, we are reconciled - at least for business purposes...I am working on the rest) is currently in Bulgaria mustering our native construction workers and beating them with a Malacca cane. She tells me that it is over 80 degrees F out there. Meanwhile I am stuck in this frozen hell trying to keep the wheels of industry turning at this end. Sometimes I feel that I am doing this single-handed...
My time wil come. What is the weather like in sunny Peking, Froogy?
The weather here is fucked up - torrential rain at the start of the week, freezing winds now. It's usually getting well up into the 80s by now, but the 'early summer' seems to be on hold somehow.
Bulgaria sounds exactly like China - except that it doesn't have that "1 billion customers" bullshit to woo people with.
Bulgaria also has one other major attraction...not that an asexualist like you would notice, of course :-)
I was a bit puzzled when I first went out to Bulgaria to see so many apparently oriental folk wandering around...I figured they had to be exchange students or summat. Turns out that, ethnically, the Bulgars ARE actually Oriental! They came roaring across the plains from near your neck of the woods about the third or fourth century A.D. and completely 'assimilated' (ie presumably massacred)the Slavs, who had only beaten them to it by a century or so in annihilating the Thracian indigents and occupying the territory. The weird thing is that although the Bulgars are ethnically oriental the modern language is Slavonic...thank God :-) I can DO slavonic languages...
Damned attractive bunch of people though but :-)
Yes, it's weird (NOT) isn't it how Communism simply fucks people up wherever its foul embrace has been - er - embraced... The thing that really gets me down about Communism is that it espouses the traditional 'values' of the brutish 'lower orders' as being somehow worth promoting. Little things like not saying 'please' and 'thank you' and bigger things like throwing litter around with gay abandon and generally being ignorant slobs.
The EU may yet knock Bulgaria into shape (pray God)but what hope for China?! Talking to some of the pre-revolutionary types in Bulgaria (usually in French) they are a delightful, educated and cultured bunch. It is Communism that has reduced the place to a brutish 'workers paradise'. Are the old, pre-revolutionary types in China similarly a bit more refined Froog? It is difficult to reconcile the gentility and delicacy of much Confucian thought with modern China! Mind you, the good folk of Hong Kong did not fall under the Communist yoke and struck me as being course, unmannered and generally pretty rude...sigh...not a bunch that would see much point to, for example, cricket...
I've been spending my time on ebay- much smaller website than this, more cheap stuff for sale... (Including lots of Chinese/T***n 'antiques'- although I suspect the 'jade' dates from the Hong Kong dynasty).
Thanks for the tip, Bookseller - I should start selling stuff on here to drive more traffic!
Mothman, some of the middle-class types I hang out with are very well-read. 'Manners', though, tend only to develop in those who've spent time overseas. There aren't too many people still around who experienced "pre-revolutionary" China - particularly not if you mean the 1911 revolution (and, let's face it, there was 40 straight years of chaos, warlordism, foreign invasion and civil war after that.... a nice softening up for the three decades of Mao madness that followed).
China really is uniquely fucked isn't it?
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