Arrival of the Weekend

After a couple of days of struggling with jetlag, playing catch up with email, cleaning up the house, taking care of errands.... I think I'm back to "normal" here. It's kind of cool here... you know, only 50 degrees at night. Funny part is that without heat in most places, they have no way to heat up a house when it does get this cool. Luckily I have a small room heater - plus my apartment is about the size of a normal person's room back in the US.....

I've grown my winter beard since right before Christmas. As if I needed yet another reason to stick out in Taiwan. Now I'm the tallest, bald, fattest, and now the only BEARDED guy in Taiwan. I have been getting lots of complements on my "new look". I'm also getting the standard stares - even saw a guy taking a picture of me on the train yesterday.

Thanks to the power of Slingbox, I was able to watch the BCS championship game last night. I was disappointed in yet another loss by a Big12 team in the championship game, but I also think that neither team really played like the best two teams in the country. I would rather see Texas vs USC now - with my money on USC. The joys of a non-working BCS continues.

Since we extended our stay back in the US, we were not able to check out the fireworks from Taipei 101. Luckily there is a thing called "internet" which helps us catch up with what we missed in the world.



And to entertain you - I took a few pictures of my own tonight with my new camera. Remember, I can walk to Taipei 101 in about 20 minutes!





Plans for this weekend? As little as possible!!!