Well, the crossing fingers and toes thing didn’t work, people. I am seething and sad and a little bit numb. Perhaps, dear reader, you are wondering what the big deal is. “What’s another day?” you might ask, “what’s the big deal?”If these questions describe your thoughts at this point, then I have two things to [...]
Wednesday and no Travel Approval. I oscillate between angry and desperately sad, without much in between. I went to work today, but don’t remember much about it. Tomorrow I will meet seventy new engineering students, and I will begin the process of teaching them physics, and for almost all of them my class will be [...]
Our Travel Approval (TA) should arrive this week. Some folks in our referral group received theirs last week, but note that I am not bitter about this. Not me. “Good for them!” I say. Smiling.Shane has told me in the past that whenever I say, “look how patient I’m being!” that is evidence to the [...]
Things are moving along swimmingly this week. We have applied for our Chinese visas, and I have had my first taste of bourbon. The visas should take a week or two to process and be delivered back to us, and the bourbon took me all night to drink. It was only a small glass, served [...]
Those of you that know us well know that Shane and I are total gearheads. We both have bomber, dual-suspension mountain bikes, super lightweight backcountry skis that allow for free or fixed-heel skiing [...]
I thought that I could start writing to you, though I know that you won’t be able to read for at least another year. So here we go.How are you? I am fine.This is how your Aunt Tuttie used to start every letter when she was [...]
So far the two most amazing moments of this whole ride have been: 1) Shane calling me to tell me that we have a sweet, six-month-old baby girl [...]
Since we had basically nothing prepared in Lina’s nursery, we’ve been having fun pulling things together. We still have two months, but I wanted to start by getting the crib ready. We bought a bumper, sheets, [...]