Skype connection to Kari

Chatting with kari (eating pork). Other than communicating with Kari, I'm not sure why else I'd use Skype. And it's a free video call. Ebay just sold this company for $2-3B? Well, even if they screwed up the first time, judging from valuation they did about as well as they could to minimize the investment loss. $2-3B is a lot of IDD calls (at $0.02/minute!)

Winner: Cute Car Award

Pandemonium at marathon warm ups

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Hormel saw the opportunity early

Olympic Park packet pick-up

Picked up half-marathon registration packet at Olympic Park today - took off early from work to avoid Saturday crowds.



Note dancing panda looking a bit dusty. Most of the park looked that way. I guess there's not much else to do with an Olymic park after the event. Much like Seattle Center.

Learned they don't give out timing chips for half-marathon - only for full marathon. What a gip, especially since I paid expat registration fee (4x local rate). What a racket.

The apartment (for next 3 months or so)

Kitchen
Living room dining area (we never use this dining table)

Living room area (light from windows caused camera to increase shutter speed so it's a bit dark)

Closets in my bedroom

Bedroom view from door

morning missles

国庆节：Picture is of missle carrier passing our apartment this morning - part of the parade that eventually went past Forbidden City. If you look very carefully in the center you can see the missle carrier on the road that runs horizontal in pic - it has ten wheels. Later saw on TV that they had a big float honoring Mao - so some things will never change. In morning tried going on a run to our office near 4th ring road, which I thought would be away from hubbub. Nope. I found all roads blocked on the way due to throngs of tanks and military things filling the streets.