4:27 PM View

 Friday.  Tomorrow, we drive to Wuxi aka Whiskers.  Tonight, we eat and drink in the Jiangyin, aka Jingle Jangles, apartment.

This afternoon, this:

My son is on the extreme left of the photo.  I had to sit by myself during this thing.  I was in the awkward position of being a bystander during the process of getting prepared for this thing.  I had to avoid colleagues.

Anyway.  The blogger stat thing says I have had over 20,000 fucking views this month.  If that is the case and not a lot of fucking bullshit, where is the interaction from my fucking rare readers?  Make comments you fucking lurkers!  Seriously.  Otherwise, stop the fuck visiting this blog!  Dickheads.

Any who.  I’m almost finished reading the Odyssey.

I did pray my rosary this day.

I’m weird.  Get used to it.

Since, I’m so vulgar, I’ll put my face to it.

4:50 AM View

 I was woken by the alarm at 4:30 this morning.

4:30 PM View

 Another vaguely unsatisfying day.  

I’ll have a beer.

I hear chainsaws being operated as I write this.

I need my favorite podcasts to start uploading things again.  None of the stuff on my Podbean seems to satisfy.

11:58 AM View

 Got gas, got hot water.

Phone Canada twice this morning.

4:31 AM View

 Christmas night was going swimmingly until I decided to try to take a shower.  There was no cold water.  After investigating and trying various remedies, it was determined that there was no gas and the landlord will have to pay the utility today.  But, we’ll see..

This morning, I washed best I could using kettle water.  Tony’s whining is probably the worst aspect of this.

I deserve shit like this.

4:19 PM View

 Listening to Pete Quiñones podcast which features a series of interviews with Paul Gottfried.  PG is discussing Neocons and Paleocons.  I at one time declared myself to be a Neocon.  I’ve changed.

11:44 AM View

 Christmas Day View.

I got up a little later today but I was still at school with time to spare.

I have chocolate to all the foreign and homeroom teacher.

I made two Christmas videos.

I phoned Canada and hope to phone again.

5:11 AM View

 Merry Christmas!!  Unto us a child is born!

Today, I work.

Yesterday afternoon, I watched the kids rehearse.

In the evening, I went to church,

Then, I went to Monte Carlo’s Bistro.

12:00 PM View

Just so my rare to non-existent readers don’t think of me as a completely miserable cuss, here’s the most recent photo of me taken on my birthday.

 I’m thinking of the possibilities of senior discounts.

11:19 AM View

 My detractors will be happy to know that I am so far having the birthday I deserve:  two classes of indifferent students and solitude.  But that’s okay, I wouldn’t have it any other way.  I’m not worth any pomp and circumstance and attention.

And to top it off, the plans I did have came undone.  Again, I deserved it well.

4:52 AM View

 Wow!  I’ve made it to sixty!

5:05 PM View

 My son Tony is preparing most of dinner:  the last dinner of my fifties!

Will this be the last blog entry of my fifties?

Maybe!  Perhaps!

Here is a photo from yesterday;

This evening, I took Tony to get a haircut.  I just drove to the nearby town.

12:01 PM View

 Dull Monday.

4:58 AM View

 And so begins the last day of my fifties 

How will I spend it?  I’ll be a school dealing with indifferent students, grading, planning, and tonight, I’ll take my son somewhere to get a haircut.

2:13 PM View and a 3:53 PM View

 

From Whiskers to Jingle Jangles we drove, that be my son and I. 

 Tony was mad at me.  Why? Story not worth repeating.  Suffice to say, he is in a petulant teenager phase.  I made a sound argument against him, and I knew I had won, when my riposte quieted him for a minute, and he made a lame comeback which was what he had spend the silent time trying to come up with.

Today is the second last day of my being in my fifties.

I will get a worthwhile birthday  present on December 24th: I will go to Mass in the evening.  I realize I should be grateful that my birthday is eclipsed by the birth of Christ.  I have a proper idea of how significant my birthday is:  not at all except to God and my Mom.

Earlier, I went for lunch with my wife.  Tony was mad at me so he didn’t come.

6:28 AM View

 I’ll drive my wife to her work.

I’ll take the car to the Car Wash.

I’ll extend my Duolingo Streak.

I’ll make a Greetings Vidro.  Topic TBD.

I’ll read.

I’ll listen to podcasts.

6:57 PM View

 We went to Sam’s Club.  There was a lineup of cars to just get to the place.  But it was all right.  One had to be patient and not get annoyed by the impatient iceholes cutting into the lineup and everything turned out alright.

The highlight purchase was donuts:

1:33 PM View

 The Blogger who is responsible for the greatest China Exoat Blog of World History — that be Moi, yours truthfully — is submitting this entry from the Wuxi, China apartment.

Looks like we’ll be going to Sam’s Club this afternoon.

Thanks to accelerated depreciation, it turns out I turned sixty on June 11, 2021 and this upcoming December 24th is not my birthday at all. My 64th birthday will be on March 15, 2025.  I turned 63 on April 6, 2024.

10:25 AM View

 Sun in the Saturday Morning Sky!  Nice!

Still trying to piece together what happened last night.

Here are some more photos.

Any who, I’m waiting for my son to wake up so we can drive to Wuxi.

Here is a photo of the loot I got last night.

700,000 Views for the Best Ever China Expat Blog

 1964 views yesterday put me over 700,000 all time AKIC blog views.

I maintain that the Andis Kaulins in China blog is the greatest blog of an Expat living in China!

8:30 AM View

 Sun rising from behind the nearby building view:  nice!

My darling wife bought my son Tony & I Tim Tams.

Maybe I make a video of myself doing the Tim Tam Slam!

Here is a photo taken last night;

Here are photos taken earlier:

Should I have been smiling?

Any who, we, that be my son Tony & I, will go to Wuxi sometime today.

7:17 AM View

 It was a wild and crazy last evening and last night for me, by my standards, if you can catch my drift.  There were fun moments and dejected moments. I stayed out too late. I drank too much.  I smoked,  I was overly friendly.  I was overly cold. I should have stayed home.  I was cheap.  People annoyed me.  I annoyed them.  I received more than I gave.  I deserve to suffer this morning.

4:11 PM View

 I’m not going to WJ tonight. It being Friday.  I may not go there tomorrow.  

Tonight, I got two dinners taking place simultaneously to go to.  One for the school and then one for the Jiangyin Friendship Group.  I’ll report how that works out.

I’ll leave the apartment at 5:05 PM to get to the school dinner.