Shanghai

Cars: saw some Porsche Cayenne and 7 series BMW. When the walk signals
are lit, the cars and vespas go because red lights afford more space.
It's easier to cross intersections when the traffic lights are green.
Coca Cola and Starbucks have taken different approaches to offering
their products in China. Coke is about $.50 per 600ml and starbucks
espresso is about $3.00 per 3oz.

When you plug something in to walls here, you know, electrons and
shit, it catches fire or shocks you. Wonder how this place is still
standing. Remember, a glue gun draws more power than a Macbook Pro,
and wonder what I was doing with a glue gun.

There is a place called ecoffee.com that has terrible coffee for
$1.20, a fabulous find.

I've ordered two things at restaurants, Yoshinoya and We Make The Best
Noodles, that had to be freshly prepared and thus I am confident that
they contained little or no meat. No Chinese in his right mind would
not eat meat with noodles. But I would.

I gave our local pit rat (the only kind of rat you don't eat here) a
Clif Bar because he was so excited to see my baritone come out of the
case he ran over with thumbs raised, as I dumped 30 bars I had carried
over inside the bell. He said it would give him power, which I don't
disagree with.