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• Beautiful China.

  Tuesday January 24, 2006

I love buying clothes in China. I’m walking down the steps from the second floor of the Giordano store on Beijing Road in Guangzhou, holding a shopping bag containing the pair of khakis I just had altered. As far as I can tell, all clothing stores in China will alter your clothes for no charge; Just have a salesperson measure the right length, ring them up at the register, and then drop them off and come back later.

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And I’m back in the States. We made it back home on Tuesday night, took a day for rest, and back to the working world today. And as is the norm for Eric, I didn’t get much writing done at all. I’ve got a couple of good things to write about, but for now, just photos. Click for my Flickr photo set of China. Big thanks to Tim for lending me his Nikon D70. I’m gonna have to start shopping around for one myself now.

Tomorrow I leave for China for yet another FOB Bus Tour. Normally I hate going on the FOB bus tours, but when it’s in China it’s technically no longer a “FOB” Bus Tour, and it’s friggin’ China so it’s gonna be lotsa fun.

I would write out a list of where I’m going and when, but I actually don’t know all the spots and the names would be meaningless to 99% of the people reading this. I just know that it’s more of the southern area of China we’re visiting this time, and at the end of the tour we’ll be staying in Guangzhou for a few days on our own, mostly to shop and enjoy some of the city at our own pace.

However — just like last year, I’m signed up once again for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), with the set goal to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. Last year I accomplished a startling 50 words before giving up.

I’m going to see how this two-week trip hurts helps with the writing. I might not be aiming for an entire novel, more like just making sure I write as much as I can, so hopefully some good blog entries to post up will come of it.