4 weeks inside the Great Firewall of China. Now I am at the Abu Dhabi airport enjoying a simple cup of coffee with cream, no sugar. No latte. No iced coffee. Just a simple cup of coffee with real dairy milk.
We don't know how to appreciate simple things. And they don't get as simple as a hot cup of brown bitterness.

So, since I have been off-line for longer than expected, is the warm, orange lump in the underwear of life still in charge?

So I just spent 4 weeks in China living behind the great fire wall. And I was sent to Khon Caen , Thailand after that. The lizards were plentiful. But the WiFi was not to be found. Some how, I still got scam calls in China and Thailand. In another 48 hours, I will see if my apartment was rented out.

Old Brazilian saying: It is better to use the restroom when you can than it is need the restroom when you can't.
Travel thoughts from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

Full disclosure: I am an American that works for a company that is not American.
I am constantly having to explain how we got a president this stupid to people that are not Americans. No matter how I try to explain that we got this dumpster fire because of racism, it just doesn't register with them.
This is why I think humans are screwed. We can't see how one prejudiced behavior can lead to all this shit. Even though history shows that this has happened before.

Hey Microsoft, stop telling me how much better things work on "the cloud" and then break my connection to OneDrive. If you can't sell my employer a system that works then you are not a vendor. You are a scam.

Full disclosure, I am an American. Yeah, I know. The world has lost confidence in American leadership.
To be perfectly blunt, I have no confidence in a the people that thought we needed to repeat the year 2020. That was like having your spouse knock out a couple of your teeth. Then deciding you need to give your spouse a 10th, 11th, or 12th chance.

Okay, Chuck Norris died.
Now let's look at Chuck. This guy heard a conspiracy theory that President Obama was staging troops in Texas to overthrow the government of Texas. And Chuck believed that conspiracy theory.
Maybe he took too many impacts to the head doing his stunts. Maybe he broke too many boards with his forehead. Maybe he had a untreated case of syphilis. I don't care.
We need to move on from his wacko "conservative" ideology.