[Soaring Feather]

Hi star base, good to hear things are moving along for you. Don forget to take the antique silver spoon with you it's a lucky piece.

I was looking at last year's calendar and discovered I have written down the date of your arrival in the Lair, it was April 2, 2006. See how things go, you have been around Taiwan, Thailand, to the USA and now headed back to Taiwan.;)

[starbase]

...your arrival in the Lair, it was April 2, 2006. See how things go, you have been around Taiwan, Thailand, to the USA and now headed back to Taiwan.;)

Yes, and don't forget India too. I sure run around a lot, but that year I spent when I started Freeping (2005) in that small Taiwan town, I didn't leave Taiwan at all! Remember that's when I used to go to that capital city on weekends? Ah, seems like it was yesterday.

In fact, I had planned on living in the mongo capital of Taipei, which actually has a lot of international characteristics, before I left Taiwan. But I hatched my plot to get my technology certifications in India, then cut this short and that short, and so it wasn't meant to be.

However, I spent the first 5 weeks here reading about and programming in all the new language changes. I'm ready to take two tests for the certification, but there are 3 more I also have to pass, and I just didn't budget the time to do all that without doing some manual labor type job to keep the lights on till I finished the certifications. I didn't assume I would get the snotty push back from immature young people controlling the manual labor jobs, which I erroneously thought I could just jump into without any problems.

Though yesterday I did bump into some young lads who were clearly from a red state and were here on their spring break. It was really refreshing to meet some youths from the red states, the difference with the calculating little Future Communists of America that pass for youths in these blue states is really, really striking.

They were asking about hotels in this town, and just their bearing was so commendable. Remember all our troops in the military are just such young fellows and fellowettes.

I'm 100% sure I could have done my blue-collar-work-while-transitioning-into-white-collar-work plan in a red state, where the people aren't so snaky, but here, forget it, better to go back to Taiwan.

I'm taking all the study books and software with me, so this time next year I'll have those heavyweight certifications, and I can decide then if I want to carry on in Taiwan, or come back and do software again. I think that's the wisest course of action.