The office loaner laptop I received for the trip is ancient and has (wait for it...) 256MB of RAM. Hold me back!
It also lacks any Chinese language recognition software so I will haul it back tomorrow (today) for our IT gal (NOT a guy! Ha!) to install it. She has also granted me permission to install my beloved third party apps (Palm desktop, image editing software, etc.) as long as they all magically evaporate before I return said laptop to her in May.
Ironically, Vegas and HK have very similar air temps...with diametrically opposed humidity levels. Vegas: 18%. Hong Kong: 81%. Oh boy. Well, at least it's not August, as with my last business trip there.
The following story was sent to me by my possible future boss, who's currently quarantined in Beijing:
Cub Scout splittists
(you can't MAKE this stuff up)
Just in case we need a reminder that China is a country with ALL media controlled by the government, the net connections for him & his wife have "mysteriously" gone down a lot this week...hmmm, so if I send him an e-mail with the word "Tibet" in it, will his computer blow up entirely? (assuming he even gets said e-mail).Speaking of which, I desperately need to finish seaming and knitting the buttonband for this baby sweater for their baby girl before I see them in HK...a fine use of various oddballs I had (Cascade Sierra Quattro), some oddball contributions from a friend or two, and okay, maybe ONE purchase (the pink skein).
Come to think of it, I should go party with my ballwinder again for the pink skein. (Ever since my friend Margaret pointed out that "ballwinder" sounds vaguely lewd, I feel faintly embarrassed using the term.)
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