Time behind the firewall

I've been spending a lot of time up in the Hangzhou/Shanghai area, where Blogspot is blocked. As I am too lazy to find ways around the Great Firewall, there are no postings on facebook, twitter, or blogspot during these trips. I actually just concentrate on work (yikes).

Last week saw the following facts and figures:

-6+ minute solar eclipse watched from the top floor of our factory.
-4 hours of Guitar Hero, with the Metallica edition especially enjoyable.
-0 trips to Hooters, a terrible mismanagement of time on the part of all involved.
-2 hotel rooms and 1 guest bedroom dominated by my sleep.
-1 flight canceled so I could drive 2 hours, have a 15 minute meeting, then drive 2 hours back to Shanghai.
-45 seconds of a new Baron Davis viral video clip being put together by a company I visited.
-3 new production lines in the planning stages.

and my favorite of the week:

-44 arrests in New Jersey for corruption, money laundering, and all those other things that give the Garden State a good name.

Finally, if you haven't seen the Onion in its new, Chinese State-Owned Enterprise form, you haven't really been living.