Hello all,

What an interesting start to my trip! A raging snowstorm all the way to the bus terminal and beyond!

The bus driver was a great addition. It seems his old job was a tour guide in Boston, so he knew the shortcuts well. We even had a mini tour of the great city and he even sang some songs. I didn't know that Alexander Graham Bell's laboratory was still intact in the Verison building! Cool, I'll have to check that out next time Alison and I head down there. I'm in the hotel in Revere, Massachusetts now. Took a taxi from Logan with a pretty neat guy named Mustafa from Algeria. We chatted all the way to the hotel and he showed me Revere Beach, which I had never seen.

This hotel is sinful in my terms. Much too fancy for me, but I think I can tolerate it. Managed an internet hookup after about twenty tries so hope this is a local call. Dinner was Japanese and truthfully not all that great but it hit the spot. Gonna get offline now and call my honey in Keene. Will hit the tub tonight and soak all the stress away before a nice sleep and an early wake up.

I'll try to update this trip as often as possible during my travels. Gotta go steal the shampoo's, soaps and notepads . . . . bye!

-Jeeem-

Hi, I'm Jeeem and I'm a bloggaholic.

"Hi Jeeem!" (in unison from around the world)

Hell, now that I'm finally back after seemingly weeks, months perhaps? of being locked out of my bloggatorium, surprisingly I have very little to say. Now THAT's scary.

-Jeeem-

Testing template . . .anna one, anna two, anna three . . .

Oh dear GAWD. . . . This thing finally works! Sorry I've been away but I guess the Blogger Pro team has been working out some kinks here and there. Now I'm back in business! Heading to Revere, Massachusetts tomorrow to lay in the lap of luxury for a bit before my flight out on Tuesday. Will be blogging my trip if I can get internet access once I get to China. -Jeeem-

Testing out my new "BLOGGER PRO"

Hello? Testing, testing,

Hey Emberton!

Great concept you got going there, but what would the French drink with their cheese?

And what about beer? Don't tell me that crap tastes good. I hear that every week.

Besides, we all know that American Butterfly wee-wee is supposed to be used on Cheerios.

-Jeeem-

I'm gonna keep this short as I have learned to stay off this thing when I'm tired. I end up writing shit that I regret saying, as I get in such a pissy mood when I am tired.

Got my China visa in record time. The tickets are on their way as I type. The visa stamp looks cool and I find myself glancing at it and oogling it like a little kid looking at his first caught fish.

Chris of Black telescope is right, the fun is in the planning. This laptop is filling up with China info very fast. I've got my hotel reservations and working on some local contacts in Beijing from the Virtualtourist site as well as surfing for electrical converters, restaurants to try, Chinese history, local transportation and weather to name a few.

I have'nt done squat with my website and hope it's still floating out there in cyberspace. I'm gonna be busy with that damn social research project that is haunting me, like a bad habit, this weekend.

The weather here is warming to a balmy 60 degrees tomorrow. Typical for New England, you end up seeing people that you never knew existed on days like that. They appear as moths attracted to a light bulb, wandering aimlessly about town and on the roads like Zombies from "Night of the Living Dead."

Hey! I enjoyed that flick. A true classic.

Time for bed.

-Jeeem-

Fighting back the self-doubt, Jeeem throws back his shoulders and puffs out his chest.

Jeeem winces in pain thinking he pulled something.

-Jeeem-

The Naked Novel
A collaborative work of modern fiction

Kool . . .

-Jeeem-