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Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this "Neti Pot" instrument I've been hearing about? It seems that once the weather turns cold in China I go from having one sinus infection to the next, with only a few days break inbetween the long weeks of sore throats, headaches, and painfully stuffed up noses. Yes, I have several noses.

It CAN'T be healthy to be on antibiotics constantly, but I've done three full courses since coming to China, and I'd much rather not have to go that route again.

Kinda rushed this one out, I'm busy. But Benny Hill is never a bad choice.

The only two videos that haven't made it onto LJ yet:

The first is the most recent, just uploaded today:


The second is the contrasting video, the first one I made when I came to China. I'm no video editing genius, but at least my skills aren't quite as horrible as they used to be:

Seems mostly for Jean, who doesn't watch these on facebook, but hey, I don't mind sharing.

From newest to oldest:

"Sunday Roast"



"Cheesemaking in China 1"



"Cheesemaking in China 2"





Coming Soon:

"A Short Walk" and "Making Chinese Flatbread"

Timeleft is neeto free program that allows one to make a countdown for anything. In addition, it replaces windows default clock and syncs with atomic clock servers as often as you want. You can also keep a display of multiple other clocks in any defined timezone.

So now I won't forget what time it is at "home", and we now have a countdown timer to show how much time we have left in our contract. As for now, it's 2 months, 14 days, 7 hours, 9 minutes, and 3...2...1... oh wait, now I have to type that all over again.

I drink blueberry yohgurt for breakfast now. I think it makes me fart, but it's really delicious.

China's response to my birthday?

Make my back hurt then let me find 400RMB on the 8th floor of my apartment building. That's about 60 bucks US. That's a good enough trade off any day, as long as my back doesn't continue to hurt.

I used it to buy extremely smelly soap (since I'm an extremely smelly guy), some seaweed facial cleanser, ginseng shampoo endorsed by Jackie Chan, more cheese, Welsh Onion crackers, carrot juice, eggs, coconut juice, a keg o' mayonaise, 2 cans of tuna, bubble tea, almonds, walnuts, about 50 tiny oranges, and the Chinese equivelent to white lightning. Rice grain liquor is a great cure for spine pain, since muscle relaxers and anti-infammatories don't really exist over here. I've got half the money left.

But wanted to let you non-facebook users that I've uploaded several videos onto facebook in the past several months in case you'd like to know what's going on in my life. I don't know if this will embed properly from facebook, but here's a sample shot: