Banking in China: An Adventure On the way to work today, I stopped at one of my bank’s branches to get money out of the ATM. Well, as soon as I put my card in, the screen changed to tell me the machine was out of order - it said I should take my card back. But, no card. It didn’t give it back! I told the guard that was standing at the door, he told me to stand in line to tell a teller.

Added pictures of my new apartment in the Gallery section.,

Here it is! The picture! Here is a picture of the parking ticket I got on Sunday. (link).

So, as you may or may not know, there is a data center on the floor below our office. We use this data center for all the servers we manage. One of our new clients came to the data center to look at their server, and I was asked to go too since I will need to set up an identical (~) development platform for the project. Well, basically, we didn’t see the server, we ended up having a short (15 minute) meeting in the hallway right by the door to the data center.

Jesus… I just closed my browser without saving my entry. Son of a….. Here it goes again, from memory! OK, thanks Matt for reading my journal. I know know that at least 3 people do. :-) Sorry to those of you who do read this, I have not posted for a while. It was due to a combination of being busy at work, and lazy outside of work. Work has been more busy than usual over the past 2 or 3 weeks, I guess that is good because work directly translates to a paycheck, I guess (with some buffer room).

I signed my lease and paid 3 months rent on Sunday night. My new apartment is still empty. I found what furniture I wanted to buy on Monday, but my bank account is a little slim after paying 4 months rent (including security deposit) - I *should* be paid tomorrow (thursday). I will certainly post before-and-after photos of my apartment - haven’t taken any yet. One of my friends is a Feng Shui practitioner