After 19 years of marriage, happiness is the 21 year old Balvenie in my glass. 🥃😜
Some sites from around Lihu Lake, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province with me playing with HDR and filters.
Today is our 19th wedding anniversary and one reason we came to my wife’s hometown was the hope that I could return her under warranty. Apparently it wasn’t a lifetime warranty, but rather I had to keep her for a lifetime. If only I read the small print! 😜
The view from our hotel in downtown Wuxi.
I have also discovered a cool HDR app on the iPhone!
So tonight my wife and I met my mother-in-law for dinner near our hotel. Afterwards we decided to walk my mother-in-law home and neither my wife or mother-in-law knew the way and had to rely on the only person who did not grow up here to lead the way!
A live band is accompanying our evening meal!
Finally, some vacation time! Heading to Wuxi (my wife’s hometown) for a few days.
🐕Harry is admiring something he cannot have!
🛬 Wheels down Shanghai. Only 4 hours late which is classed as on-time in China 😜
Let’s try again. Boarding for second time, let’s hope we make it to Shanghai.
I hope they can keep their Flux under control this time.
Only in China can you board a flight on time, sit on the plane for an hour and then be told to disembark as there are air traffic control delays.
When I landed in Xi’an I saw these Take a nap boxes. Let’s hope my boss doesn’t come up with cost saving ideas after seeing them! Actually at 30RMB/hour they are not exactly cheap.
From the picture it looks quite comfortable and could well be a better standard than my normal business trip hotel!
If I can find them in the departure area of the airport on Friday, I think my curiosity will get the better of me.
Come to think of it, this could be a great escape room from a nagging wife!
Wheels down 🛬 Xi’an
I am just leaving home to go on my first business trip since returning to China. I am headed to the ancient city of Xi’an I sincerely hope this trip lasts it’s intended length.
Duff Beer portrait, taken with my iPhone. I’m quite pleased with the outcome. The beer was good too!
When I first got back to my apartment complex after my 14 days quarantine, I observed an unmanned food cart at the entrance. Over the last few weeks I have seen these carts at subway station entrances in the morning. They looked interesting but I had never seen one moving until yesterday.
First I should say that I live next to Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in the Pudong District of Shanghai. Across the street from my apartment complex is the Pudong Software Park where I often take my dogs for a walk because in the middle is a nice lake where the dogs can enjoy sniffing and running around.
Yesterday as we headed towards the park, I observed one of these unmanned food carts, but it was actually an autonomous unmanned food cart. As you can see in the video below, it is oblivious to the red light, not only at the pedestrian crossing, but also at the main junction. When I shared the video with my friend, he said it must have been programmed by a cyclist because the cyclist is also ignoring the red lights (which is pretty normal in China to be honest).
So it looks like they have a lot more work to do on the software before these are allowed to freely roam around the city.
And there it goes, big rain on my day off.
My dogs let me sleep in an extra hour this morning. Sometimes I think they understand me more than I give them credit for.
🐶 This is what happens when you all want the rope…
I got this email this morning. Looks like I can finally quit my job! 😜
After a year of using Acronis True Image with the cloud storage option, I have decided to switch back to using Arq to backup data to both my Drobo 5N2 and Wasabi Object Storage.
Although Acronis True Image did the job, I just didn’t find it easy or speedy to use. That may of course be due to the internet connection here in China. I also cannot help but think it is becoming bloatware with it’s new ransomeware detection features and so on. The personal version also lacks some of the advanced features available in the business version, perhaps I expect too much and I am just not the target audience for them.
What backup tools do you all use?
Researchers have demonstrated that they can make a working 3D-printed copy of a key just by listening to how the key sounds when inserted into a lock. And you don’t need a fancy mic — a smartphone or smart doorbell will do nicely if you can get it close enough to the lock.
🔗Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks
This is wild!
Sounds like a neighbour is decorating. Constant drilling and banging for the last hour.
The joys of Shanghai apartment living.
Since I was away in Germany, the German supermarket chain ALDI has opened more locations in Shanghai. I guess it’s possible that some were opened beforehand but I only knew of one across the river in Puxi. Now I have one nearby and can place home delivery orders via WeChat!
I have no idea why, but after I came home from the Whisky L! Show, Benny decides to sit with her butt on my head!
