On the work front, there are several big improvement opportunities for the Staples business in China that we are trying to make happen. There seems to be a fairly constant stream of Staples’ visitors which makes life interesting and makes you feel less on an island by yourself.
Big plans this weekend, Saturday will be a drive out of town with a co-worker so it will be interesting to see the countryside. Maybe the air won’t have a taste to it. That’s normal, isn’t it?. Then, I’m headed to the Business Expo on Sunday with one of our visitors. The Expo is a big deal here as it is a business show that goes from June until October. The character that represents the show looks like a blue version of Gumby.
By the way, the weather is about the same, except that now that I can’t always talk about the heat, they’ve added in almost daily thunder boomers that make the Texas rains look like wimpy showers. I have finally remembered to put my umbrella in my backpack. They do have a pretty cool thing here I haven’t seen elsewhere. When you enter a building, they have an endless supply of skinny plastic bags for you to slide your wet umbrella into so you don’t drip all over the floor.
I almost knocked a moped driver on his “assets” yesterday. It seems we both wanted to be in the same place only I was standing in it and he was headed to it without slowing down. Another guy got hip checked into a wall trying to pass on my no passing side. So it’s a real treat to be here with the locals, at times. Finally, a fairly strange looking somewhat drunk local guy was sitting next to me on the subway and obviously was staring at this small book (Chinese-English dictionary) I was carrying. He leaned over toward me (of course, I leaned away from him) and said, “I think it’s great that you’re studying Chinese”. You could have knocked me over with a feather (or his breath!)
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