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I thought I saw a porn like that once... Looks like all the larger points have been covered.

Yes. There was an enormous 20-something girl at the restaurant off Nanjing Road last night. I had to do a double take, right after I walked past 3 American hipsters. Craziness. jbot, I'm nowhere near the Great Wall. From what I can gather, the government will screw you up something good if you mess with it and get caught. So, due to the continued Customs shenanigans with our gear that has brought everything to a halt, we've declared this a tourist day. Last night we were dropped off on Nanjing Road, which was renovated about 1999. This place is almost exactly like Times Square; ridiculous lights, wall-to-wall shopping, and American restaurants. The only American restaurant that bares ANY similarity to back home is McDonalds. There are only 3 chicken dishes on KFC's menu, and the Pizza Hut's are the most opulent places I've ever seen for a Pizza Hut. We went to one our first day here, you can order shrimp, steak, and lobster. Not on pizza mind you, but dishes by themselves. I think we'll be heading to the Bund this morning, probably hit most of the touristy places today then head back to the copy shop tonight for some more shopping.

I don't think you'll need a protection order. If she shows up, and let's face it she probably will, call the cops and have her take her away. I'll go out on a limb and assume she got herself to your place, so if there's any justice in the world she'll get picked up for DUI. Between your willingness to call the police and her new-found legal issues/bills, I think/would hope that's enough to get the message across.

Agreed on all counts. I don't want to commit to anything right now as I don't really know what my travel schedule is going to be, apart from being home on New Years.

I almost forgot: There is a perfectly good reason why there are stereotypes about dogs and Chinese food. Apparently the noodle shop down the street from the plant serves dog and cat.

Installing voice over IP phones for our international sites, and upgrading/refreshing their network infrastructure. When we're done it will be possible to call our sites here from the US using a 5 digit extension for free, or to call someplace in the US from China and only be charged for a local or long distance call, since it will come out of the phone lines in Columbus instead of China.

Good morning campers! I had mentioned before about the ridiculous amount of scooters on the roads. It's interesting to note that most of the electric scooters or mopeds will actually shut off their headlights at night to conserve battery power. I don't understand what a full battery will get you if you get smacked by a car at night, but oh well. I can absolutely say that these are some of the best urban riders in the WORLD. Rain, fog, haze, it doesn't matter. It's kinda funny as you're turning a corner in our van you'll see an entire army of them coming right at you. Last night we had dinner at a noodle shop about 100 meters from the hotel. One of the guys I've been traveling with is originally from Vietnam and is quite the food adventurer, so on seeing duck tongue on the menu he had to have it. I'll throw up some pics once I get them off my phone.

i thought you were on a mission from God?

You know what they make you do in County? Toss the salad. I'm totally on board with pre-game at my place, unless... this happens. Chances are good that I'll be in Australia by this time. I'm trying to keep everything before the week of January 4th.

Here they are. Most everyone here was pretty understanding of it apparently, but since they only left one lane and the shoulder (which everyone drives on anyway), if the truckers needed to get through they would just drive on top of it.

I'll have to get these pics, apparently someone thought it was a good idea to use 3 lanes of a 4 lane roadway to dry rice.

So it appears that Facebook and youtube are both blocked by the Great Firewall of China, so my only outlet for snark while I'm in Shanghai are you good people. Lucky you. I promise not to make 10 threads, I'll keep all my blogging here. People on 2 wheels here are INSANE. I've seen 125cc cruisers with sheet metal tacked onto the sides where highway bars might go, I'm guessing that's to deflect water spray. If you can last here for 15 minutes, you can ride anywhere in the US, up to and including NYC. Some of the other Americans here were telling me they saw an entire family of 5 on a scooter, and that some dude in a 3-wheeled bicycle with a cart on the back was hauling a washer/dryer, 3 27in TV's, and a rear projection TV. Traffic is a complete free-for-all, nevermind about lines, rights-of-way, any of that. The locals tell me that it's better to not make eye contact with anyone not a pedestrian while crossing, eye contact only seems to want to make them drive towards you. Flight was uneventful. 13 hours is a LONG time to spend on a plane, and it gets a hell of a lot longer when I'm sitting next to some guy that's literally spilling out into my seat. Protip to whoever is thinking about long-haul travel beyond 4 hours: Make DAMN sure that the plane has in-seat entertainment. My flight to Amsterdam was 6 hours, but it was a lot easier with a LCD in front of me and about 15 movies to choose from. Airbus A330's and 777's have this, 747's definitely do not. More to come.

So just to bring this back on track, what's going on? It looks like the KoC of Moose is gaining some momentum, I don't have a problem with that at all.

Just putting some feelers out there for New Years. I know it's a way off, but it's funny how things sneak up on you during the holidays. I wouldn't be opposed to having it at my place near Easton, but I'll leave it for the mob to decide.

I usually take mine down, just for the theft aspect.

An epic adventure. Did you ever get that guys number that you were making out with when Justin went to the bathroom? The way you were trying to eat his face suggests that you didn't get enough food at Panini's... j/k A great night all around! Thanks to Yotes for putting this on.

want to rock the Katana around the track, eh Moose? In that case I seriously recommend getting better engine covers, something like a NRC or whatever. When I lowsided, even at low speed, my starter cover (left side) hit first and cracked, losing all my oil in the process. NRC's are thicker metal and won't crack nearly as easy. That being said, I wanted to do a trackday on the RR, sounds like a good time!

I run bigger.

Right now it's looking like I'll show at 9:30, depending on how long dinner with some of my other friends goes. Yota, I'm sure Panini's has a stage, I expect your thoroughly drunk ass to be on it and dancing. Again.

dammit, why do I have to be such a fat kid...

The Chuck Norris one is the best. I'm too lazy to find it right now, but it's awesome.

I thought the same thing, and set off to buy one until I saw the price: An entry level goes for about 400 bucks. That's a spicy meatball that happens to have the ability to chop up other spicy meatballs...

White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

Watch the Family Guy episode "Road to Germany". They trotted out the Hawkmen attack scene, I about peed myself laughing so much.