All right, so it’s been a while since anything has been slung up here. The reasons are as follows:
- Post May Holiday malaise. After one week of too little sleep and too much Thai food, what I craved was the opportunity to just laze about and not do anything in particular. Our original thinking was that we set the itinerary so that we would have time to spend at each point of transit: Shenzhen, Bangkok, Hong Kong. What ended up happening was that nearly half of our holiday mornings were spent in transit. Subsequently, as Mike put it best, once we got back to Shanghai we felt like we needed a vacation from our vacation. I don’t care what anyone says, my next vacation is NOT going to require me to wake up anytime before 10 am. Even if I’m stuck here.
- Actual work to be done. The week back turned out to be a never-ending series of meetings and number crunching as someone finally realized that the product we have been working on the past few months needed a price. So, that job came to me, and with so much responsibility thrust upon me, I naturally tried to milk it for all it was worth. That entailed lots of spreadsheet work and data checking that I probably could have made up, but it was good to keep the circle going during my little Paris Hilton moment. And by that, I meant that I went to the office everyday in skimpy designer skirts and tried to sleep with every executive I could find.
- Technical troubles. Those of you who were considerate enough to drop by the site were no doubt met by a strange Wordpress-related error message. Clueless as to what was happening, I did some quick research and learned that my ISP (I Power) had merged with another web provider, and overnight I had tons more bandwidth and a weird database error. Thanks to Mikkel and Betty, who brought this to my attention. Yes, believe it or not, I actually didn’t even check my site during that whole “pricing week,” and needed actual readers to tell me. In fact, I need actual readers in general.
- New T-shirts. Almost everywhere we went in Thailand during the holiday, there were cool T-shirts to be bought. I ended up buying a few. Few T-shirts I’ve ever purchased have been able to accurately convey the state of my existence as much as one that I bought in Phuket (shown below). I have decided to wear this shirt as a mark of shame until I can get off my schneid and actually start looking to grow and develop as an entrepreneur (or, at least, a diligent corporate employee). Thus, the blog has taken a bit of a backseat. Of course, it just takes one of you to write a check out to me for a a few thousand USD for all of this to change 
*note: tons of photos were taken in Thailand, and though I promised not to exhibit the tired old pictures of mandarin skies and emerald waters, there were still some cool ones that I’ll post on Flickr once I can aggregate them all. You never think you would be fascinated at the sight of an elephant penis until it’s about 3 feet away from your head. Stay tuned.
