It’s tomorrow, but no promises I would blog tomorrow so there!
Happy New Year, according to the Chinese-made lunar calendar. This year is 丙戌 [병술, which could be read as bottled booze. Conveniently enough, this is my 主業, main business, there days 
]. That the year of the dog as animal, and fire as element.
I hope it’s going to be the year when I sell lots of bottles of booze.
Here’s the deal:
My sister in law, two floors up, has a DSL modem and a WiFi router [in a 20 square foot one-room, sure, whatever]. The router is on the floor, so I am really, if I really want it, only 1.1 floors away from the router [that would require me to stand on the table and hold the laptop close to the ceiling, but anyway…]. However, tables in Korea are mostly low, as in coffee-table with even shorter legs low. As you can see from a couple of toes, this table is on only a few inches above the floor. And my TiBook don’t get it. *But* if I prop it up with 4 paperbacks and a box of tissues, I get my network access, most of the time… So all is fine, except when I have to type something at any length, like my column for RBDeveloper. Then it becomes slightly more problematic…
Thank you Elmore Leonard, Greg Bear, Michael Connelly, John Grisham and Kleenex.
In Seoul, no less:
The shock of two cultures: boy needs his rice and soup for breakfast, like a good ole Korean that he was raised to be, but lives alone in a one-room thingy in a strange city with no mother or matron to cook for his ass. So whachu do? You arrange for daily delivery of rice and soup in the bag there, and there you go, a filling breakfast before going to school or the office. Ain’t that nice..?
Let’s hear it for enterprising people and lonely bachelors…
On my way to add 12,000 miles to my Flying Blue™ card [half of which is bonus mileage]. Arrival in ICN on Sunday. Hopefully…
30 kg of luggage, all in the cabin – ‘t was a close call this time, let’s mark it off to my charm! I think I beat my record this time – hafta check but I think I have 8 bottles in my bags…
Anyway, see you on the other side!