China Jon's Syncretic Journal

Oh oh...

A "Super Typhoon" is heading toward Taiwan and China.

This is the weather dot com satellite view, if you want to see it:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/map/AFXX0001?name=asiasatellite_large_animated&day=1

Copy and past it.



I hope it will dissipate soon!



Here is a map that I made to show that it is far away from me, but near Southeast China, and Taiwan. They rank it a category 5 typhoon. After it hits Taiwan it will drop to a Cat 4 and hit China.

If it gets all the way over to me (doubtful) it will be weakened to a tropical storm. These tracks usually turn North, not West.

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http://snipurl.com/1plr3

These are the same, but which will work for you best, I don't know...

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The last of the storm has passed. It did turn Southwest, and brought days of thunderstorms to Shenzhen. This morning had the last of the windy rain saying "Good bye, have a nice day."

Only a few thunderbolts, just to celebrate the tour of China, I guess...

I grew up in a family of builders, and became a musician, But then of course the builders were musicians as well. My mother could play very complicated classical pieces, and the house was usually filled with her playing. such a different world now, where the mother is working every day and the kids grow up with MTV, Sex, and drugs. I had never smelled marijuana until I was in my late teens. I wan not even sure what it was, but me and my pals figured it out. None of us used drugs.

I always lived in a single family house, until my university days, when my dad hired me to be the caretaker for some townhouses he had built.

Out on my own I played the real estate game well, buying low and selling high. that game has continued in my absence, and, having not played for 8 years, I can no longer afford to play the game in America. So, I play it in China... maybe. At least I bought while the prices were low and they have gone up, but I don't want to sell. Now, I live on the 20th floor in a flat of my own design. It looks larger than it is. I like to stand on one of the patios and take a look at the country around, noting the changes wrought by light and clouds, by construction and weather. I don't feel the need to move onward and upward. This feels like my home. It is a little island of Western Way, surrounded by an infinity of Eastern Way.

One strange little thought... I grew up Christian, and I enjoy talking to my friends and students about philosophy. I think I am growing my own beliefs about what is, and isn't. I feel closer to creation and miracles than I ever felt before. I don't think it is because I live on the 20 floor.