.....and there are two more days to go.....

.....but will there be more days or will there be a delay in flying?  A Category 4 typhoon is - as of Saturday morning (today) - heading directly for Hong Kong.  True, our flights go to Guangzhou buy hey, that's not so far from Hong Kong and what will the typhoon's wind impact be??

I'm sitting indoors at a local coffee shop, near the Temple University-Japan facilities, where Katherine is sitting for an examination.  I'm indoors because while I started out, outside, it turns out that those pleasant outdoor tables are not meant for fresh air but for smokers (cough, cough!).

Just a bit over 2 hours left for my wait.  I'll probably go shopping at the Isetan, next door, in search of flowers to present to Katherine after her exam.  After, we'll be joined by Joanna for either a grand, glorious Beijing duck lunch or a not so grand and glorious Beijing duck lunch:  grand if Katherine passes, not so grand if the results are 'not so grand'.....

Returning to the real world will be a chore - it has been a nice 2+ weeks without email or telephones, pissing off, along the way, a whole group of people who cannot quite understand what it is to be outside their realm of communications.  We've progressed from party phones to private phones to answering services to message machines to messages on cell phones.

Bring back the good old days where people looked at people, not their phones!!!