Far East Cynic

Catching up.

What with the move and all there has been a lot going on. The travails of getting ready for the move kept me from commenting on some of the really stupid things that have happened in the last month. So this will be a post aimed at catching up-if only

Continue reading

Mission Accomplished?

I wish more bars had Wi-fi here, this growing need to decamp to Starbucks to get any internet stuff done is killing me. The S.O. and I are in the new house. We were able to get the satellite in and working fairly easily with about 45 minutes effort. (

Continue reading

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

And once again-I am not ending it staggering out of an Irish Pub on Nathan Road. Sigh. But I did buy a 4 pack of Guinness on the way home today-which I am drinking now. And thinking about Irish Women, Irish Japanese mixture to be precise: And if I had

Continue reading

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Greetings from the lounge in Chicago. Sitting here waiting for the jump back across the Atlantic. Should have posted more-but just didn’t feel like it. This week was my birthday-so it put in kind of a funk. I still am in a funk-or at the least a bit depressed. This

Continue reading

Sometimes, they actually get it right.

On the road, again-its been a month since I traveled and those frequent flyer miles are not going to earn themselves you know. Nice train ride up to Frankfurt this morning on a beautiful day. And I was more than a little pleased to see this: The Senate on Thursday rejected

Continue reading

News you can use.

Sorry for the lack of postings of late. I am going through a triple whammy of trying to get ready for a trip, dealing with the day to day fun at work, and also starting an online class, which is going to cut into my time even more. However, it

Continue reading

Dresden ( and a bit of Poland)

A couple of weekends ago we went to Dresden. I found the trip remarkable for a couple of reasons. 1) I never imagined in my youth, that I would ever be in what was once “East” Germany, and 2) I was surprised at how charming and well developed the city

Continue reading

The other shoe drops.

Nothing will ruin your day like a collision at sea. Or a grounding. This business of firing CO’s at a drop of a hat is getting out of control. Not every mistake needs to be published by public execution. It might be that given the chance he might learn a

Continue reading

Speaking of love and romance

Its a pleasure to see a lawyer talking about alternatives to marriage and the inevitable pain, our fucked up divorce laws bring with it. “When I was a child,” Diana Adams began, “I had a dollhouse and a rich fantasy life. I imagined that I was a cancer-curing surgeon, a world-class ballerina,

Continue reading

Since it’s Valentines Day.

We should talk about what should be the most important part of the holiday. The post dinner/flowers/movie/carriage ride in the park/romantic walk in the park sex. Sex is always, ALWAYS, the perfect ending to any holiday. So over at The Atlantic, they had a nice article about the myths about that

Continue reading