3:19 PM View

 A nice cool afternoon in Jiangyin 

Here’s a photo of me.

It’s not really cool enough for me to be wearing my toque, but I want to wear it.

11:21 AM View

 A combination of cloud and sun has made this view photo unique.

I’m not feeling so good.  Relatively cold day and a pain in my gut have me wanting to lie down under blankets.

4:53 AM View

 An early morning moon in the photo.  Nice effect!

Otherwise, not much to look forward to today. I have to be in the same room with these grade 12 students.

4:36 PM View

 Rainy.

Students annoyed me.

They have two uniformed guards, with billy clubs and flak jackets, present at the gate of our school.  I realized why when I recalled there was an incident at a school in Yixing where a crazy ex-student killed seven people.  They were there for show, I figure because I don’t know what they could do to stop a student on the campus already from acting out on a grudge.

11:49 AM View

 

For lunch:  Cheese Sandwich, Coffee, Crackers & Cream Cheese, and Lemon-Flavored Cereal & Milk.

Pretty in Punk?  Maybe a few like it, of the ones who weren’t sleeping.

Rain.

I can’t find my earbuds.  Maybe in the car.

4:52 AM View

 What have I got this Monday morning?

I extended my Duolingo streak to 1765 days, not my no sec streak.

I’ll show my grade 12s the film Pretty in Pink.  Most will fall asleep in it, however.

Rehearsal on Rashomon will continue.

3:10 PM and 4.33 PM Views

 From Wuxi to….

Jiangyin.

While in Wuxi, I took this photo from the building containing my wife’s office.

Meanwhile in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada:

Raymond Pero’s DWD event.

Meanwhile on WeChat Channels, I get this Canadian living in Thailand making political commentary.  He is a serious sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome who sneers about Americans while thinking at the same time that their election system and justice system is all above board when it punishes people he doesn’t like. 

 The latest video I saw from him, he wished aloud that the extreme left and extreme right would go away.  He carped on the extreme left for their transgenderism and carped on the extreme right for their doubting the 2020 election results.  They surely can’t believe the election was stolen he said.  He then ranted about Alec Jones and seemed to enjoy the extreme judgement brought upon him…. 

I made a comment that he was a lefty trying to have it both ways by pretending to be a middle of the roader and was not to be trusted.  I should have went on about his fuzzy thinking.  Just what exactly did he mean by extreme views?  Anything he happened to disagree with?  His joy at the punishment against Alec Jones seemed to indicate that he didn’t mind the state punishing views he deemed extreme.  Truth is that he really seems to want a narrowing of the discourse. I say viva the freaks, viva the different, viva the quirky views, viva the eccentric, viva the geniuses, no matter how extreme they may be in their views.

The other problem with his thinking was his framing using the left and right.  I like to frame it terms of good versus evil; nationalism versus globalism, truth versus lies, the bureaucracy versus the average man, religion versus atheism, concrete versus fuzziness, and so on.

My Tribute to Raymond Pero

 

I publish this on the occasion of this:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/962197190522117/permalink/27493325103649298/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

My words were read to him at the event:

I’ve been trying to think of words I would say about Ray.  Thoughts about him are complex.  He drove you mad.  But you had a feeling that if you didn’t love the guy, you were a brute.  He never changed.  He was the true Everready bunny.  He came from a place that challenged one’s perception of oneself.  Try and think high and mighty of oneself, Ray would destroy those pretensions.  Ray is a genuine person.  Maybe even a Saint.

6:32 AM View

 Got up late today.

Go back to Jiangyin sometime today we will.

Made three greetings videos yesterday.  Minimal viewership on YouTube.  On WeChat, they garnered nearly 2,000 views.

6:55 PM View

 I walked to the Hot Maxx outlet at the nearby Wanda mall.

Coming back I took this view from the nearby balcony.

4:08 PM View

 

We went to Cam’s Slub.  Inside, I saw a model aircraft carrier that was made in China.

Yesterday was November 22, the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.   For the longest time, I have believed that Oswald did it.  And I’ve been thought crazy for having done so.  Now, the echo chamber I’m in, which includes Tucker Carlson, says that Kennedy was killed by the CIA.  Tucker also doubts the “magic bullet” theory.  That is, that the second bullet that was fired (the first having missed) hit both Kennedy and Connelly.  

So where does that place me in my views about the Kennedy assassination?  Am I turning into a JFK conspiracy theorist?  Well, I have become to believe that the large U.S. government bureaucracy seems to think that the President is to serve it, and it is not supposed to serve the people; that the President is a slave of that bureaucracy.  Putin, in an interview with Oliver Stone, observed this.  So, I will have to reconsider my views of the assassination.  I haven’t given it much thought because I’ve been observing what the blob has tried to do to Trump.  Maybe, the CIA did kill Kennedy.

11:36 AM View

 I had a great photo opportunity.

The guy was sitting dejectedly by his vehicle.  But by the time, I brought the phone, he was standing up and pacing.

6:11 AM View

 I’ve overslept.

Sorry to hear Gaetz withdrew from consideration for the AG position.  He had kick ass potential.

6:41 PM View

 We’re in Wuxi.  Alexander the Great Macedonian style rock n’ roll hoochie coo excitement is sure to ensue,

4:33 PM View

 Friday.

I didn’t take a lunchtime view photo because the cleaning lady was at the apartment.

My observation lesson went well.

Now, I wait for my son Tony.  I want to go to Wuxi!

Hurry up Son!

4:54 AM View

 

Yesterday evening, I went out for dinner and wax rushed so I didn’t take a dinner or bedtime view.

I did get these photos.

This morning’s agenda:  try the Tim Tam slam and get through the day.

11:46 AM View

 Will my grade 12s do their video assignment?  We’ll see.

Did I remember to stop the coffee pod machine now?  No. Bad omen.

I put a Latvian Flag on my smart board at school.

I then took photos with it, in various lightings and photo modes, to show what a Latvian patriot I am.

4:56 AM View

 I forgot to put butter in the butter platter?  What’s the word?

The flash was set on my phone’s camera and so I took this photo:

This sort of accurately conveys the morning darkness.

5:10 PM View

 No thoughts.  Just reports of what I’ve been doing.

Here is a screenshot from the last AKICDV:

Here is the last AKICDV.  Watch it!

After work, I went for a walk.  I saw this building being constructed.

No idea what it’s going to be 

I’m listening to this podcast:

11:38 AM View

 Lunch time.

I’m finishing off the last AKICDV!

4.58 AM View

 I didn’t sleep at all well last night.

Good Lord, I hope it doesn’t make me have myself a bad day.

Working on AKIC DV #365.

5:00 PM View

 Dinner Time.  Not ready.  I got to the apartment about ten minutes ago.

Now for some random thoughts:

Hallow is a good app.  It keeps me sane.  As does church-going.

I will my upload last AKIC DV tomorrow.  Why put an end to it?  It is not important to keep doing it. Also, Number 365 is a nice number to end at

I used to say Trump was no more racist than Barack Obama.  I now say he is no more racist than Micheal Obama.  Although truth be told, he is less.

Meet the Grade 12 parents day.  All I can say is no one wants to meet the English teacher.  None of the grade 12 teachers of the hard, as opposed to soft, subjects want to meet the parents because there really isn’t anything that can be said.

My grade 11 students are annoying me.  They can’t even rehearse a play properly.  I better not go into details.

11:33 AM View

 This morning at 6:55 AM, I realized I had left the charging cable for my laptop at the apartment.  From 7:20 to 8:50, I was to have classes.  I didn’t want to risk losing power on my laptop during the classes so I decided to rush home.  While doing this, I thought to drive the car back.  Only thing I worried about was traffic.  But as I walked to the apartment, I saw and realized that the traffic jam of parents dropping off their children at school was over.  At 7:10, I was parked at school and was in the classroom with my charger.

4:48 AM View

 

Just want to get this day over with   Perhaps I’ll have time to explain later.

4:29 PM View

 Why am I in such a bad mood today?

Well, the Bombers blew it.

The sight of the students and their addiction to their devices annoyed me.

Students doing things at the last moment.

Students with no imagination.

The realization that because Chinese parents pay full board for their children to study in overseas universities, the incentives to bar them from coming to university because of poor performance in high school is minimal.  So the students can basically be lazy in grade 12 because they have already been accepted to university.  So, I’m wasting my time trying to teach them anything.  And their English is so bad….

Students wasting time on things that should have been done before class.

Anyway, more photos of me and the big Latvian flag.