Ears hurt, but am in better mood now. Fifty bucks worth of fireworks and I didn't put out an eye or blow off a finger. Excellent job. Lit ten strings of those small noisemaker ones - dunno what we call them in US, they're tiny and all linked up in a double row about five feet long, and I also bought five boxes of fireworks - the kind with twenty or ( Read more... )

Back in Shanghai and at work. Tired and I have a headache, but otherwise good ( Read more... )

Sleep is still messed up, though crashing at six pm and waking up at six am is better than being awake forty hours for travel (I pretty much can't sleep on planes) crashing for ten, being woken up for dinner and then staying awake for twenty four hours because my body clock has been beaten to a pulp by fourteen time zones ( Read more... )

Travel was hell. 43 hours including drive from Chicago to Des Moines. Remind me next time saving 200 dollars on tickets isn't worth it.

More later, am jetlagged and dead.