7:47 AM View: Hello 2025!

 I was aware I was in 2025 at 12:10 AM last night when I got up to use the restroom.  Tony wondered what I was doing up.  He was the first 2025er I saw.  The second was my wife.

9:32 PM View: The Last of 2024

 The K family had din-dins at the nearby Wanda Mall.

Now, AKIC (get your kicks at the AKiC blog) will have a beer and hit the sack.  Free of FOMO, I can go to bed early: it’s a liberating feeling!

6:16 PM View: 2024 coming to an end.

 My wife is working till 7:00 PM.  I’ll pick her up and we’ll order food for dinner.

I listened to this podcast:

Only problem with this screen shot is that the episode heading is wrong.

Best moment of 2024?  Trump winning the election,

3:30 PM View: Now in Wazoo!

 

I have successfully driven from Jingle Jangles to Wazoo.  If you don’t like it, tough titties! What’s done is done did.

This may or may not be the last AKIC blog entry for 2024.  If it is, I say bye bye to my 2024 rare readers!

11:19 AM View

 Off till next year!  I did a couple exams this morning.  Now, it’s time to decide what to do tonight:  Be in bed by 9:00 PM!

Here’s a selfie taken this morning:

4:52 & 5:09 AM Views

I thought I hadn’t taken a view photo before making this video:

4:07 PM View with a Selfie and a request for comments

 Easy peasy lemon squeezy Monday.  No classes, I had, just exams to proctor or monitor or invigilate.

Here’s a selfie.  It was taken in the exam hall building but a different floor.

Here’s a question and I would like a reader to chime in on, if I am using the proper phrase:  do I look sickly?  My female colleague, from India, was saying I was.  I thought I was in a groggy way because I had taken a nap in my classroom closet.  But I would really really really like comments below about this.

11:28 AM View with a couple of selfies

 Monday.  I’m at the apartment for lunch.

Here’s a selfie of me in my closet.

Here’s a selfie taken by the exam hall.

I am starting to read the Karanazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky.   Shouldn’t that be The Brothers Karamazov?  That’s the edition that my school has…

I was reading James Joyce on my phone during the invigilation.  One of the teachers who relieved me was named Joyce.

I like this new church.

5:17 AM Update (1800 Day Streak)

 

The alarm had to wake me this Monday morning.  I was also slowass. But not so slowass as to not do my Duolingo.

3:34 PM & 5:28 PM Views (and purchases made)

 

The above photos prove that I drove my son & myself safely from Wazoo to Jingle Jangles.

The photos below prove I had lunch with my wife & son earlier at a Korean BBQ place.

I also made some purchases;

9:50 AM View or Update (The Curse of the Rose Colored Door!)

 I had plans this morning for what I was gonna do after dropping off Penelope — Sorry!  I mean my wife Jenny — at work.  But Jenny had plans for me.

I was to move stuff from the old Wuxi apartment to the new.  The stuff was behind the rose colored door.  I always hated the rose colored door!  The closet was always overloaded with too much stuff.  To put something  into the closet was to bury it forever.  To find something in the closet was an odyssey.  I had to find the thing — not easy — and then try to leave everything in the order which my wife had left it; not easy.  My wife wanting me to move stuff from behind the rose colored door brought back bad memories.

To get into the old apartment, I had to open the electronic door opener and closer.  When I first tried it, I couldn’t get the keypad where I was to enter the passcode to appear.  Boy, did I curse!  Finally, I got the keypad to appear but then I got the passcode backwards.  More frustration….

Anyway, I’m finally done.  Not so great being on the 27th floor at these times.

I did manage to take photos and make a video

I did go to the sports center near the new apartment to make a here and there video,

6:52 AM View (aka AKIC Update)

 I’m doing a test run of my idea for blog headlines in 2025.

I just extended my streak:

6:28 AM View

 

Well.  I’m up; not necessarily at’em, 

Madam!  I’m at’em?  

Mate! I’m at ‘em?

Ah! Whatever!

7:20 PM View

 I love the night light.  It’s much better than staring at the daytime sun.

I finished reading the Odyssey this evening.  I sat down for an hour in the comfy chair overlooking the above view and binge read the last 130 or so pages of the book below:

Finished the book, I went on a bit of an odyssey myself.  I walked to a fairly nearby bakery to buy bread that my Telemachus, aka Fat Tony, likes.  It would have been nice if Telemachus had come with me, but he hasn’t left the apartment since he arrived here late this morning.

I will pick up my Penelope from her work after 8:30 PM.

2:46 AM View

 I’ve pointed my phone towards the sun a lot today,

I’ve just walked to the nearby Wanda Plaza.  I bought Ruffles, pickled Gherkins, a cord for my device charging, and two bottles of Russian beer,

I bought the beer here:

To get there, I had to walk down these streets :

Here are my purchases:

There’s a lot of criticism of Indians from India on both American and Chinese social media.  My wife has been telling me that Indians have gotten a reputation for having dirty habits in Canada.  Now in the wake of both Elon and Vivek trying to encourage Trump to bring more Indian programmers to America, complaints have been posted on X about how clannish Indians are, hiring nothing but Indians when one of them takes charge of an IT section.

11:10 AM View

 Bright sun in Whiskets.

9:15 AM View

 I went to take a shower.  No hot water again!  I cursed and checked things and phoned my wife.  She told me to put the gas card over the gas meter.  That worked 

Tony is still asleep.  My cursing and pestering has yet to wake him up.

7:00 AM View

 Early morning is the best time of the day.  It is so stupid to stay up past 8:00 PM and thus miss it.

Look at how happy I am in the morning,

6:05 AM View

 Saturday.  So, I lingered in bed before getting out of it.  I was awake since 3:00AM.

I still have to swear.  I have to call bullshit on the blogger stats.  If they are to be believed, I have had over 5,000 page views in the last 24 hours.  But where’s the reader engagement?  If you are reading this blog, email me at andiskaulins@protonmail.com or andiskaulins@hotmail.com  or andiskaulins@qq.com.  Just say hi and tell me where you’re from.

Hopefully, there will be a new government in Canada by the time I go back.

Why does the Brita Filter light always go red in the morning which is the most annoying time to change the filter?

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.