Far East Cynic

The paint may change…..

But the service inside still sucks: When you stop charging for drinks-call me.

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Trainspotting

During my last little sojourn up north, I embarked upon an experiment. When the meetings were over, instead of staying the last night in small town New Jersey ( home of the roads with no left turns), I set off back to the Philadelphia airport and stayed the night at

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Blog birthday

It has been a while since I have posted anything of substance, I know. This past week I spent most of it in New Jersey and Philadelphia. Faced with a choice of blogging after a long day , or eating-well I took the latter option. After that I collapsed on

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And we are back!

Back at home after freezing my ass off up in the North part of the country. Some observations on American Public Transportation to follow. (Its not pretty…..).

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Out for a while

And it is iffy whether I will have blogging capability there. So enjoy yourselves and watch those Steeler re-plays. Or argue about the stimulus bill. Catch you when I can.

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Better to be lucky than good!

That game was a close one! I seriously thought the Cardinals might take it. However God, in his infinite wisdom, loves long suffering Steeler fans, moreso than upstart Arizonians. As it should be. The folks in Phoenix will still have jobs next week……….

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Super Sunday…

As much as I like to complain, life cannot be too bad when the sun is shining brightly, there is not a cloud in the sky, the temperature here in Hicksville is nice , AND: THE STEELERS ARE IN THE SUPERBOWL! Beer is bought, TV and sound system checked, let

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A really big night in Wanchai.

Not even I could pull a bar tab this big. Especially at the Old China Hand. However, according to Hemlock-someone did: Now that’s a pretty big bar bill-even at 7.76 HKD to the US Dollar.  There has to be a story behind it and there was:   Super Happy Hour

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It’s Friday

And you know what that means. Lots of this: And some of this: The jury may be out on that last statement.

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Project update

Success! The Personnel Roster is up an running. For those that copied the link from my previous post,or from Phibian’s post-I changed the URL to make it easier to get to. Important safety tip using Word Press-pay attention to directories!  Use the link above thepersonnelroster.com and it will get you

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