9:44 AM Tuesday, July 1

 July 20, our plane leaves from Shanghai to go to Vancouver. 

It’s Canada Day or Dominion Day.  I prefer to call it Dominion Day because no other country that I know of, calls its national day after itself.  That is, there isn’t a China day, an USA day. a France day, and so on. And  I wonder if July 1 should be Canada’s national day because all that happened on July 1, 1867 was that a new level of government, and thus bureaucracy was created.  There was a Canada before July 1, 1867.  It was formed by Samuel Champlain? Correct?  Or perhaps, Canada was formed when it chose to stay loyal to the crown and not join the American independence movement.  Let’s not define Canada by its federal government!

This morning, I drove in rush hour morning traffic to get my Jenny to her work.  This means more idiot local drivers.

The latest substack

6:54 AM Monday, June 30

 Our flight to Canada leaves July 20.

So, I’ll start dating the remaining entries of this blog. 

I’ll start a new one when I get to Canada about our life in Canada.  “Our” means my son Tony & I.

Latest substack view entry

Do I mention Jenny & Tony on the title banner?  Maybe, my critic was right that I don’t need to say my son and my wife all the time..,. (head slap emoji).

6:43 PM Sunday

 140,000 page views got me two responses.  See previous entry to see what I’m taking about.

I got an email for which I will respond to some criticisms.  Why do I always try to say  my wife and my son when I refer to my wife Jenny and my son Tony?  I assume that no one is reading this blog, and if someone visits this blog by chance, I should explain who these people Jenny and Tony are.  Why do I take the same photo all the time?  It is a habit or duty I put upon myself, and I really liked that Jiangyin apartment view.  And this blog is a log of my time  here in China.  I will admit that even one selfie of me in this blog is too much.  And I should at least  double check my typing before I publish it 

Better to be boring than bored I suppose.

And if you dish it out, you have to expect it.

Any who!

Great quote from Jose Maria Escriva:  

The day you see yourself as you are, you will think it natural to be despised by others.

I came across that quote and I decided to make a video of it.  It applies to me big time.

Ah! Modernity!

6:07 PM Sunday: 139,908 Views

 If my blogspot dashboard is to be believed, this blog had 139,908 page views yesterday (Saturday).  Where is the interaction and the hundreds of comments and emails?  Hmmm?!?

When things seem perilous, as they do now for me, one has to stay busy and concentrate on small things.

My latest substack.

The local drivers always annoy me.  Which ones annoyed me most in the last 24 hours?  There was the driver in front of me who did not make any turn signals as I followed into the apartment community parking garage. And there was the driver who couldn’t stick to the lanes as they turned onto the ramp below as I was turning on to the ramp from above.  I make a point of staying in my lane at entrance points, unlike the typical impatient local driver who cuts into the lanes of a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.

One should never expect politics to solve one’s problems or to alleviate one’s troubles.  It be like a sports team winning a championship would improve its fans’ lives

8:39 AM Sunday: 3 Weeks

 Three weeks till our plans leaves for Canada. This morning, I’m full of trepidation.

Less than two days as my last full calendar month in China comes to an end.

What can I say about China? How is China now? It’s gone modern.

11:33 AM Saturday: One Million Views

 Again, I would readily admit the number is probably bolshoi but apparently Andis Kaulins in China blogspot has had over one million page views.

Thanks to all my very rare readers, who almost never interact with me, and all the bots for achieving this supposive milestone.

Here is my latest substack The stats that the substack dashboard offers must be more realistic. It tells me that I get 750 views, or so, a month.

I look forward to reading all the congratulatory comments below or getting congratulatory emails to:

andiskaulins@hotmail.com

or

andiskaulins@protonmail.com

or

akaulins&gmail.com

or

andiskaulins@qq.com

7:49 AM Views: 58,000 Views Yesterday?

If the blogger stats for this blog are to be believed, I had over 58,000 page views in the last 24 hours.  If the numbers are true, it can be attributed to views of my reactions to ZMAN’s death on X which did get me a lot of views.  If the viewership, stays at this rate, this blog will have had over a million pageviews by this evening.

ZMAN’s Death has already affected my daily routine.

10:46 AM Friday: A void

 A tweet says the ZMAN has died.  Still don’t have more confirmation of this news.

My last substack before I heard the news.

My most recent substack

7:40 AM Friday: The Zman Dead?

 Just saw this tweet saying the Zman has died.  Can’t believe it is true.  I was just watching and listening to him yesterday on a stream about Iran and Israel.  He was my favorite political commentator.