that’s whacked

a chinese mixup

Monday, May 28. 2007  –  Category: Travel

Question: In what language can the question:

“Do you know where WuFenPu (a shopping market) is?”

be accidentally mis-pronounced as:

“Do you know where I farted?”

Answer: Chinese

And, for what it’s worth, the response from the girl I asked it to was as you would expect.

sigh. Never underestimate my ability to make a fool of myself in any country, in any language, at any time.

remaining blissfully ignorant

Friday, May 18. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris

in shanghai, staying in perhaps one of the nicest hotels i’ve ever stayed at, and had about 30 minutes to kill while wendy naps.

i thought to myself, “huh. wonder what’s going on at work.”

punched into work, opened up mutt - saw the ridiculous number of new emails - and quit without reading a single one.

pulled up the good ‘ol trusty planet and saw lots of references to Project Indiana and other neat announcements/rumblings-going-on.

looks like i have some catching up to do when i get back. oh well. for now, i’ll continue to remain blissfully ignorant of what’s going on at work for another two weeks and enjoy the rest of my honeymoon/vacation.

my manager told me before i left that the first week of vacation is always spent worrying about work - and it was completely true. it wasn’t until we got to Gora Kadan that i finally stopped thinking about work, and i hadn’t thought about it until now.

fortunately, seeing the immense volume of email awaiting me prompted me to continue forgetting. i’m off to go explore the French Concession, and eat my way through Nanjing Dong Lu now. see you all in 2 weeks.

my last blog post as a bachelor

Friday, May 4. 2007  –  Category: Musings, Travel

… after a week filled with “last ____ as a single man”, it’s time to add “last blog past as a single man” to the list. i don’t anticipate blogging anything in between now (wedding rehearsal) and tomorrow (wedding day!), so here it is.

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deep and provocative, i know.

i’m pretty exhausted; we’d had a busy week of packing up the kitchen and living room in preparation for our kitchen remodel and (minor) living room remodel (we’re adding recessed lights to the living room and doing some drywall repair on one wall). we got our marriage license yesterday (the county of Alameda apparently sees no reason why Wendy and I should not be wed - though they did for some reason insist on putting “England” as my place of birth instead of “United Kingdom” because (and I quote literally): “people might abbreviate United Kingdom as UK, and UK is not a state in the US.”)

we’ve packed up our bags (mostly) for our honeymoon, practiced our first dance enough times that we’re now sick of it, and i’ve been working on my vows, while checking the weather report for Saturday about every hour or so.

okay, i’m heading out. it’s off to my rehearsal. this will be the last time i leave my house as a bachelor. the next time i come back, i’ll be married. weird.