I'm not going to apologize for not writing for so long. You just won't get an apology out of me. Sorry.
Instead of writing some stupid summary of my life over the past week, I'll break it up into a few posts. First, I went to Lincang this weekend to see friends and, just as importantly, to pick up my wonderful savior:
Looks kind of like Jesus, huh?
I know the Chinese aren't huge on religion, but apparently you can buy salvation in a box for one easy payment of just 1380 RMB! It's got all sorts of fancy features, including a little light that has an animation of water dropping into the bucket!
The "shipping company" where I picked it up from looked like some kind of drug smuggling operation. When I say "hole in the wall operation," that's literally what it was. Well, a hole in the wall operation with a tarp over the front of the hole in the wall so guys could sit around outside smoking cigarettes. There were a few hundred packages somewhat randomly arranged on top of one another, sort of upright, on one side, or just kind of bent in weird positions. To their credit, they instantly found my package. And I'm not so sure it is a drug operation because it's literally right behind the court. Probably a bad idea. (Or a brilliant one?)
I was so excited when I got back to Dazhai with my heavy baby. Right after I plugged it in, the machine said the relative humidity was at an astonishing 81%. No wonder the inside of my guitar, underneath of my desk, and everything in my entire room was moldy. Now I'm sitting at a cool 52%. I told the dehumidifier to work until it gets to 36% until it can rest, but I don't think that will ever happen. At least not until the concrete used to build our dorms dries up (not a joke).
So far, no new mold with the dehumidifier. The only bad news is that when I shut it off at 3am the other morning to see if I could get some sleep without the dehumidifier's quiet buzz, I woke up and the relative humidity shot back up to 80+%. I guess I have to decide between two years of breathing in bleach fumes from cleaning the mold or two years of a nice buzzing during my every living moment. Right now I'm choosing the latter.
On a final note, I'm trying out Windows Live Writer to publish this post. Do you notice any differences?
buzz is worth it. for me the noise of 2nd avenue outside my window is worth having a nicer apartment!
also, i don't see any differences with windows live writer.