Grey overcast day

Today up here in G-Vegas has turned to an overcast grey day. It's rather gloomy.

The past couple of days have been productive getting ready to go overseas. I would very much like to start practicing Chinese using a comprehensive course, rather than the add hoc way I have been trying to learn using various apps. Some of the Chinese in free apps is not standardized mandarin, instead it's Cantonese or another regional dialect.

Learning to speak Chinese is the biggest draw I have to this job. Language and travel are the main reasons.

I heard from someone who plays hockey in Beijing and hopefully I can skate when the ice freezes at a park in Beijing. I will have to content myself with pond hockey until I can get closer to a bigger city that has an ice rink. I am not without hope that Handan may have a rink somewhere, it is after all a city of 9 million souls.

It is pretty evident that I need some conditioning. I have not been getting fat, but have lost a lot of the tone I had before I was semi disabled after my finger injury.

Hopefully, I will do some skating, hiking and some ab crunches over the next couple of weeks.