winter's finally here! now i can officially go mad.

strange, is it not? ridiculously mild winter, followed by MARCH FROM HELL. it's almost as if we couldn't possibly even maintain a shred of hope that a winter season would pass without breaking us...

so china's confirmed. i leave on the 16th and return on the 26th-ish. the stumbling block: my flight bounces off vancouver, and then caroms off taipei, before finally grinding to a halt in honk kong (read backwards for return). then, i make my way to the SuperDuperTurboRocket (seriously, no sarcasm. it has turbine engines) ferry to Shenzhen, from which a bus takes me to the town i need.

anybody watch The Amazing Race on tv? i'll be living it.

ooh! ooh! johnny made 21 last night, and is 3 bubs from 22. i got home early due to unforeseen difficulties with the thing and the stuff, and decided to log on and try to get the TF done. well, 10 minutes of recruiting later, and i had 3 other warm bodies to qualify for the mission, which i for all intents and purposes soloed. johnny NEVER lost more than 1/4 health, and NEVER lost more than 1/2 his stamina, while basically never sheathing his sword. methinks he is now becoming quite the awesome hero. what's funny is that there was another katana/sr scrapper on board for the tf, and he was TEH SUXXORS, dropping every other encounter, constantly out of end, etc etc...

Marcmarcmarc would be so proud to see li'l Johnny Guano in action now...

at lvl 22, i'm going to need to beg some serious coin from the boys, though, as it will be Single Origin shopping time, and JG only has about 100k...

well, true believers, the last of B5 will be watched tonight, in all likelihood...

all good things, huh?

BYRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(shaking fist)