The never ending adventures of a Canadian who lives in Wuxi and Jiangyin, China with his Chinese wife Jenny and their son Anthony aka Tony
I was berated last night. Did I deserve it? Of course. Did I anticipate it? I should have paid attention to those back of the mind thoughts. What to do? Buckle down and try to improve myself.
I was thinking that up to now, my life has been a big vacation and the suffering will come big time. Only belief in Christ can save my eternal soul.
I was emotional and yet, there was some detachment.
This video I just made captures my current mood.
My son is doing his homework: an example I should be following with my lesson prep.
Here’s the Canal video:
The cars and the gate can be seen from the 27th floor.
Below are two miscellaneous photos.
https://www.podbean.com/wlei/dir-zbsdk-21579458
I’m of the Austrian bend when it comes to Economics.
I just made these two videos this morning:
That’s a Blue Bomber someone is wearing.
I don’t like this idea of Centrsl Bank Digital Currency.
Never forgive; never forget.
https://www.podbean.com/wlei/dir-7xdum-21568e11
Back to work in less than 48 hours.
I saw a man screaming at kids to run faster: 快！
Soda Crackers & Cream Cheese.
$aturday!
Is the following Sexist or merely Harris-Walzish?
Prayed the Risary as I walked around the track.
My prayer beads are in Jiangyin.
Babe Ruth plus a thousand.
Duolingo was a good app, but recently they have made it more difficult to get the hearts one needs to continue on with lessons. They really want to make you spend your gems to get the hearts. I won’t do it so I spend less time on it.
Question for myself: Who is your best friend in China?
Answer: Hard question to answer. I would have to say I don’t have one. I could say my wife, but that would be evading the question. I just don’t.
Follow-up question: Why?
Answer: Becaus, I’m a cheap, selfish bastard. Also, because the sort of people who come to China are often the sort of people who are trying to escape themselves. There are reasons they are escaping themselves. Also, because I am a person without a tribe. Latvian Canadian base brats are a rare breed indeed. I did met one Latvian Canadian but he was more loathsome than me and he wasn’t a base brat. Also, I’m a reactionary and thus a very odd duck among expatriate types. Also, I got married to China.
I made this video:
Took this selfie:
The presidential campaign is getting boring. It needs another assassination attempt.
Too many teams in the MLB playoffs.
Unfrosted had a LOL funeral scene.
Don’t know if it was inspired or the result of a selfish boredom.
Here’s Simone Weil.
Muggeridge said she reminded him of George Orwell. David Warren, my favorite blogger, admires her; Evelyn Waugh didn’t.
The Z man said something about Generation X types that will stick with me. Generation X is the slacker generation. I am a generation Xer, for what it’s worth.
A representative of the generation: Tim Walz. He didn’t know what to do with his life so he became a teacher because it was easy to do. By luck, he stumbled into politics. I have too much in common with Tim Walz which is scary. .. I’d never vote for the guy. Only thing that has saved me from being completely like Walz is that I was open-minded enough to listen to Rush Limbaugh; and the Donald Trump candidacy. But I still feel impotent in life.
Maybe poetry and faith can save me.
