Sunrelenting

It is August and the heat is really on. The humidity too, extra even.

That's not really news though. There is little new to report on. We are grinding away at getting this new company moving forward, and the prospects look promising. We have several partners lined up, and two are already committed. We also we're able to secure some gravitas with the help of some senior figures both in China and abroad throwing their names under ours.

That is exciting, but not money-in-my-pocket exciting. My Macbook is still dead and the more research I do on it, the more it looks like 6 years of music and 3 years of documents have been all but erased thanks to a tiny needle scratching a tiny disc in a rather compact little computer.... That is frustrating to say the least.

On a happier note, this American adventurer is coming back home, not for 1 week, not 2, but three weeks. I expect my home coming to elicit a response similar to this:


And if you call in the next 30 minutes we'll include a full sit down face-session with this guy himself, something we've never offered before on this show. But wait, there's more (Billy Mays and Ron Popeil would be proud) I am multi-tasking this trip. Mixing business with leisure with family time with wedding time. It does of course mean a road trip (work related for a solid 75% of it), which means that if anyone who still actually reads this is on the northeastern seaboard, they should let me know when they are free between Sept 7th and the 21st.
The trip will be interesting to say the least as we find ourselves dealing again with our humbling South China Learning Institute summer program. But it's new, improved, with a curriculum and of course a snazzy powerpoint that details all of our wonderful opportunities. Folks if you've got kids in college or just out, they cannot afford to miss a summer in arguably one of the most important cities of the next 20 years.