Sometimes I think I am the crazy one.

 Sometimes I think I am the crazy one.  But the other ones are human, part of clown world, and so I can’t say for certain.

“Boy oh boy! My life sucks.” [someone else said this as part of an anecdote. I found it hilarious!  The thought of someone saying to himself: “Boy oh Boy! ….”]

Pain in my side. Permanent. Never goes away. Oh well.  It sanctifies me.

You’ve been a bad boy.  As punishment, you’ll have to marry a supermodel and move to the Bahamas. [In 1709, the King of France told criminals that if they could be free if they married prostitutes and moved to Louisiana.]

A: “Are you having a good day?”

B: “Yes! I am!”

A: “That’ll be 200 RMB!”

Where’s Hu?  Who?  

Who knows where Hu is?

A: “Are you having a good day?”

B: “I’m having an excellent day!”

A: “Are you sure? It’s 400 for an excellent day.  200 for a good day. Or you can take advantage of this special offer where you can have three good days for 500.”

A: “Pull my finger!”

B: “Okay!”

A:  Sends gif of a-bomb explosion.

A: “Did you bring your swim trunks?”

B: “What?”

A: “We’re not just going to look at the Yangtze, we’re going to swim across it. Channel Chairman Mao, as it were.  I thought  you all were committed to achievement!” [Is “channel” a verb or noun in this passage?]

Phoned my Mom in Canada. Prices have doubled though the official inflation rate is ten percent.  [Maybe the official inflation is a daily rate]

Walked past this store called “A Good Idea.”  I said to the person I was with that we should create a brand name called “A Bad Idea.” I then wondered what product or products we would sell.  After a little discussion, we decided our first product would be men’s lipstick.

A Wide Screen Video Taken at E Bi Zui Park

 

More Photos Taken in E Bi Zui Park

 

Another Covid Test Lineup

 Interestingly, I read that Hui Shan District where our Wuxi apartment is, has reported a case.  I hope that doesn’t mean I can’t go there next weekend.

56th Hat Trick of the Year

 

AKIC the Videographer

 

A Whole Slew of Photos from My E Bi Zui Park Visit

Go Here. 

Yangtze River Boat Traffic

 

Bugger!

 

AKIC at E Bi Zui Park in Jiangyin, China

 

Throwing a Rock into the Yangtze River

 

Pull My Finger!

 

Things I Hate These Days

 Progressives

Covid Lockdowns

Covidians

Wearing Masks

Friends, the tv series 

The Cleveland Guardians

The Edmonton Elks

The Washington Commanders

Dark Football Pants (NFL & CFL)

Tattoos 

The terms “misinformation and disinformation”

Hate Speech Laws

Dwindling Numbers

 There was a big spike in views on this blog last week.  So much so that I will triple my view numbers over last month.

But the daily view numbers have dwindled to the usual rate reader level.  

Why were there so many views last week?  Perhaps, someone must have been exploring my vast archive of entries.

I’m a DiDi Rider

 DiDi is China’s Uber. 

 I hadn’t used it that much in Wuxi.  A few times I used it to get to company training at my first school.  At my school last year, I felt out of it because I never used DiDi while all the other teachers talked of “taking a DiDi” in a way that sounded like TV series characters talking of taking an Uber.  I drove or took the Subway.

In Jiangyin, I am now a DiDi Rider (I’m channeling Elvis Presley when I say this).  This weekend, I took a DiDi to the bar and to do some grocery shopping.  Now, I see I don’t have to pay before I can leave the car.  I can pay later because if I don’t pay, I can’t use DiDi again.

Podcasts I listen to these days:

The Z Blog Power Hour

Radio Derb

Trish Wood is Critical 

You’re Wrong with Mollie Hemongway

London Calling with James Delingpole and Toby Young

Cotto Gottfried

Gold Goats n’ Guns

Kunstler Cast

The Brion McClanahan Show

Neil Oliver’s Love Letter to the World

Mother Angelica Answering the Call

These podcasts topics include dissident politics, current events, history, Catholicism, economics, Covid, America, Canada and the UK.

Testing at the Side Gste

 

My Jiangyin apartment complex has two entrances which I call the Main Gate and the Side Gate.  On Saturday morning, I got Covid tested at the Side Gate for a change of pace.

And I discovered something after the test:

Friday Night in Jiangyin, China

I went to Hawks Bar:

I saw this picture that is very familiar to my son:

The bar was on this narrow street:

 

300

 October 27th, besides being my anniversary and the birthday of my school, is also the 300th day of the year.

Some wondered why I did this counting. Well. I read these spend-a-year-with books which have 365 daily passages.  So, that’s how I know.  I’’be been spending the year with Mary and some Saints.

I won’t be doing anything special for my anniversary.  The school did have a little ceremony for the birthday.  A bigger one is to follow, they told us.

Happy 140th Birthday!

 

Besides it being my anniversary, October 27th is also the birthday of my school.

I had to ask how a school would be started the week before midterms.  They laughed.

I also said if I was 140, I’d be telling everyone I was 39.

Sixteen Years Ago

 Today is my anniversary!

今天是我的周年纪念日!

šodien ir mana jubileja!

aujourd'hui c'est mon anniversaire !

hoy es mi aniversario!

The Mess Hall at My School

 Teachers eat on the third floor.

Students eat on the second.

It’s a long way to the mess hall!

 

How Covid Tests Affect Classes at My High School

My school has the students do covid tests.  These tests seem to happen without warning and so if you have a class, you may not see your students right away.  They take advantage of the interruption to delay coming to the class.

Nothing Like Having One’s Son Like One’s Posting

 

A Lot of Views

 The last three days, I have had  a lot — for this blog — views.

For me, a hundred daily views is a lot.

Who are these people visiting my blog?

Email me at andiskaulins@hotmail.com.

Another Three

 

An excuse to do the inexcusable.

Go pound sand, or better yet, mud.

Hope you have a dandily delicious dinner full of dazzle and dynamism 

How do you cook razzle dazzle? Do you broil it? Do you shallow fry it? Do you get steamed and then spank it?

If you don’t mind, I am going to rest my legs.

Did you have the dinner you deserved?

Are you having dinner or is dinner having you?

I’m a meme man.  Very meme.  Don’t mess with me.

My birthday is coming in December.  When I did the math, I suddenly realized that I will, on my next birthday, become the age I already thought I was.  What a relief!  To my way of thinking, I won’t age a year my next birthday.

Are you thinking outside the paradigm?

What are the pronouns I would like others to use to refer to me? I’d never really thought about it, because it’s a stupid question!

I told a person who said that an image was I posted was blurry that this was because he was drunk.  Then I used  my other WeChat id to tell myself he had a point.

There is a point to taking the more scenic route as opposed to the most direct route.

I was astounded by the magnificence of something someone had posted somewhere.

I couldn’t help but notice that your hair is full of vibrancy and bounce.  Could you tell me what brand of shampoo you use? And also, do you use conditioner?

If you don’t mind, I’m going to have a beer.

I wonder what it is like to be five feet tall.

What can I add to the extensive amount of Joe Biden jokes and memes on the Internet?  It is hard to come up with anything original.  And Joe Biden’s dementia must surely be visited by the Muse.

Another Covid Test Line

 

 

Pizza by the Slice in Wuxi!

 

Pulleys against the Pad and Rays in the NLCS

 I don’t know about you, but I think that’s funny.

Another Test Line

 This impromptu setup of one is in the complex of my Wuxi apartment, near the entrance.  Testées  are given a pass card afterwards.

Thousandth Day

 

I believe I started the streak in the before times.

Lunch

 

Views on the Campus

 

Testing Again

 6:00 AM

999

 Studying French, Spanish and Chinese.

Phadres against the Pillies in the NLCS

 I don’t know about you but I think that’s funny.

No Test This Morning

 I pass the testing booth as I leave the apartment complex and head across the street to work.

On a Roll

 

On My Way to Work

 

Pat Myself on the Back

 

Three

 

Yankees versus Cleveland

 If the Indians were playing the Yankees, I’d be cheering for them.  But apparently they’re not.  So go Yankees!

2,150,000

On my YouTube channel, I have exceeded the above number.  So I have garnered 50,000 views or so since moving into my Jiangyin apartment.

The View from the Ninth Floor of My Jiangyin Apartment.

 It’s Monday. I just got home from work. Before getting to my second floor apartment. I decided, on a whim, to go to the ninth floor — the top floor — of my building.

Below is what I was able to see.  

When I look north, I see this:

This is in the direction of the town where the Chairman Mao mural is.

When I look south, I see the mountains near the lake:

People’s Congress

 The big people’s congress started today.  I learned after the fact when someone asked me if I was paying attention to it. I had to admit I wasn’t.

I did see that Eleven hadn’t been taken by a coup.

Someone thought that all the Chinese flags on display everywhere were on account of the congress taking place.  I had assumed that they hadn’t been taken down yet from the National Day holiday.

I Don’t Know Who This Is

 I came upon this statue when walking about here:

An Arch in the Area of My Jiangyin Apartment

 

I went for a bike ride Sunday.  This arch o’ pillars had caught my attention, so I wanted to explore it.

There is an image of someone on this monument.  Guess who?

Yes. The Chairman.  Believe it or not, but one rarely sees images of Chairman Mao in China.  Or at least not as often as you expect.

Bishop Sheen

I was listening to a Podcast that plays recordings of old  talks given by Bishop Fulton Sheen.  Sheen, in his time, was a superstar in the sense that he was well known beyond Catholic circles.  His like does not exist today. 

(Not to say that aren't current Catholic types I don't love.  There is David Warren, William Briggs, and Gavin Ashendon .  And of course Mother Angelica.  But back to Sheen...)

In the podcast, Sheen had this to say about Unions and Capitalists.  Unions want things but they never ask for more duties. They never say we need to work more hours ever.  Contrariwise, he also said that Capitalists were negligent of their duties. For instance, stockholders had an absolute right to the profits of a corporation in an arrangement where they were on no obligation to do anything.

(I'll admit what I have typed is not detailed and is superficial. But I think I have a big point to make.)

The BLM movements and Transgender right movements seem unaware of obligations and duties.  The people whom BLMers despise seem more aware of this.  They are aware of the state of mind of black people and would like to provide succour. But BLMers seem only to want vengeance. They never offer any ideas of a relationship where all people can benefit.  The transgendered movement seem to want more than being tolerated.  They want to be celebrated in a way where they have no empathy with the people whom they make uncomfortable.

Finnegan’s Wake

 That novel by James Joyce.  I believe it has a bad reputation. But I have grown to like it. I have learned to  appreciate its use of language. I now look at the novel as a source of nonsense and profundity for my  tweets and so I browse the novel for inspiradation .  I just love tweedle  bleating out nonsense and puns and aphorisms on the unter webs.

If people used Twitter to try and outdo what James Joyce did, Twitter and other social media might be worth something.  As it is : “ weet, tweet and stampforth foremost, footing the camp for the Uncaring Karens.”

993 & Duolingo & the Jiangyin Wanda Plaza

 

Saturday the 15th of October was the 993rd consecutive day of doing a lesson on Duolingo.  Next Saturday will be a milestone. You, rare reader, will get to see proof.  The streak began during Spring Festival 2020.  It was about that time that something was going on in Wuhan.  The Kaulins family was then north of the Chang Jiang River.  We were able to get back to Wuxi before it was locked down.  It was the end of the Before Times.

The three languages I study on Duolingo are español, français and 中文.  I am nowhere near trilingual or double bilingual. I study the three every morning around 6:00 AM and in the evening after work.

I did use some 中文 when I went to the supermarket of the Jiangyin Wanda Plaza.  

I said to the clerk: 我要两个袋子！

两个袋子？ asked the clerk.

对！ 两个袋子！

小或大？

大！

That’s the extent of my Chinese speaking ability.

The Jiangyin Wanda Plaza is bigger than the Hui Shan Wanda Plaza.  It has a Burger King and a McDonald’s.

To get there I took the taxi.  It is 41 rmb from Yushanwan Garden where my Jiangyin apartment is.

325,000 Views & My Instagram Account is Now Private & The Old Man & Alec Jones

325,000 Views on this blog. Actually, there are 324,999 but I think I can assume that one more view. Perhaps, it is you, rare reader who is that view,

I got an Instagram account last year. I’ve been posting a lot of stuff on it.  I can’t say what it is that compels me to do it, so it probably is a bad habit and I shouldn’t have gotten on Instagram.

But getting off it would be drastic so I have made it private.  The reason I have done this  is my 15 year old son demanded I do so.  Whatever it is that I have posted on my Instagram account has been seen by his classmates and they are teasing him about it.  They are idiots I tell him and he agrees, but he is stuck with the baboons for now, and the baboons are getting to him. Oh well.

I am watching a series called the Old Man. I heard about it on the London Calling podcast.  Jeff Bridges, who is the Old Man, is my role model. I got to be old and slow like him.  I still have too much nervous energy.  The series is a great watch.  

I listened to a bit of an Alec Jones podcast.  It was full of repetitive commercials including Jones’s plea  for cash to help him with his legal troubles.  But it was a compelling listen.  Jones was great in his rant against the makers of the MRNA vaccines and how they should be hung.

After hearing what Jones’s legal troubles were, I wish I could help him. He was totally hosed over nothing. You’d have thought he had ordered the Holocaust or something to have to pay so much money. The people who prosecuted  him are bad people. So crazy as everybody may think Jones is, he is a Saint compared to his more rabid critics who want him bankrupted.  They should be hung from the same scaffold as Fauci and Trudeau.

Entrances

Here is the entrance to the campus:

Here is the entrance to the international department building:

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Kittens!

 I was walking home for lunch.  (I can do this at my school!)  I was taken back to see a batch of at least seven new born kittens on the grass near my apartment building.

Here is the video I took:

The mother was nowhere to be seen.

The cats will soon become a nuisance in the community.

My Apartment Complex Entrance

 

Every day, I pass through it on my way to work.