Sunday, August 12, 2007

Ah, another fun day in China...

Today was more of a nice relaxing day, where for once we awoke quite refreshed. The bed is nice and comfortable, so one was able to actually sleep through the night, which is a very good thing.

We awoke at 0800 this morning to the sound of hammering upstairs, "Huh, I guess that they work on Sundays too." So we get up, I wander out of the bedroom only to find the kitchen floor soaking wet. The kitchen is sunk in ever so slightly and we are about 1/4" from the rest of the wood dining and living rooms being flooded. The hose from the filters to the small faucet had come undone, this is what you get from a Chinese knock-off, but it's a good thing that they had decided to work upstairs.

So we shut the water off and spend time cleaning the kitchen floor with the one small mop that the landlord left us, and our day begins...

Actually, that was the most exciting thing after that we did a few loads of laundry, which in it's own way is fun since you can't read any of the settings on the washing machine, only the light for the laundry level and the start button were understandable. But everything came out clean and we hung it all up to dry and went out for lunch.

Later we went with another couple to a pool hall and then out for another good Chinese meal, so it was a nice way to spend a Sunday.

Oh, and last night I was playing with the remote for the cable, can't read any of it but have a basic idea as to what some of the options are. I was able to move the start up channel and moved the only English speaking channel to always be the first channel when we turned the cable box on. That's nice, over 100 channels and now the English one will come up first. Then I locked the channel with the parental controls setting, this was an accident. We have not been able to figure out how to unlock it, tomorrow I will try and have someone from work help me to call the cable company. One hundred plus channels and now the only one we can't watch is the only one we could have understood....

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