Jim in China

November 5, 2008
Today Jinsong asked me to buy him two bottles of good red wine, since he was going to have dinner with a Russian scientist and two other Chinese scientists, and he wanted to impress them with a good bottle of wine.
On my way to the wine shop, a young man on a bike [...]

I finally received my absentee ballot - e-mailed as a PDF - a week ago. I promptly filled it out, and looked at the website of the US embassy here in Beijing. I found this:
The U.S. Embassy is able to return ballots and FPCAs through government mail free of charge. Feel free to drop [...]

After quite a bit of cleaning, my apartment is starting to look habitable. I have seen a handful of other places - all much better kept than mine - and it became even more apparent to me that the single guy who lived in the place before me really did not keep it up. After [...]