Robert S.

Very interesting. I will have to visit this a lot more.

Interesting article about bamboo-strip books

Read this book! Dream of the Red Chamber or you can go for the full 1550 pages (in five volumes): Story of the Stone

It sounds like you have more choices than anyone. Your antenna on the roof to receive free HD local channels made me do a search to see what was available to possibly be picked up where I live, and the only thing was one channel from the Ion networks, which obviously was not worth the effort. I don't have a TV anyway. Quit paying for cable years ago. I love the Zatoichi movies on Hulu.

MoonCarolCafe, one of the coolest, most interesting guys ever to be a member here, sent me the card number and the PIN if someone would like to PM me for the info if they need it. He and I have sent several PM's back and forth over the last few weeks. I was so glad to see that he still checks in with us from time to time. He has got quite a story to tell, but I will leave it for him to relate if somebody can draw him out. Of course the best way to get his story would be if you spotted him in the Moon Carol Cafe, and if you did, he would buy lunch for you!

All right that is excellent. Congratulations.

I am so happy to hear these excellent results, and congratulations. Interesting description. Glad it went well.

Thanks for posting that link! I enjoyed that so much.

No deer antlers?

If I could do anything I wanted I would scour the Deep South looking for a really big old house built circa 1900 with the high ceilings, huge old trees, and a lot of room for kids to play. I would look for a house to fall in love with in an area of other well maintained large old houses.

I don't know the answers to your questions, but I'm glad for you to be making the trip!

Talk about weak, my post count is pitiful. Here I've been here since Day One or only a month after and I still have not got a gold thingy. But I don't know anything about immigration anymore. I need to do like Mick in his famous thread where he made about a thousand posts...."while I pondered weak and weary, ....... quoth the raven, nevermore..."

What, like your post count is a little weak?

I think dk1's username is a hint.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Sounds like they treated you like a VIP !!! Good info. Why are you going to China again? Where are you going to go?

There you have it, OP, the definitive answer to your question. Now, how can we string out this thread? How about this - how come you first showed up here with this terrible tale as your first post? Were you lurking before? If so, why didn't you say something before about how things were going? Why did you pick this girl? Didn't you have any inkling that she was mental? How did she manage to get away like that without you having any idea that it was coming? Where did she get the money for the ticket? What all did she steal from you? What can you advise to others to watch out for? How did she manage to pass the interview in GUZ if she was like this? How long did you know her? Was this disaster partly your fault? And so on.....

It was nice to see in the news that reporters today went to go check the traffic jam and they found it had resolved since last night. There was a lot of traffic, they said, but it was moving. Ha-ha, don't you know, someone very high up told the right people they better do something to unclog that jam because they did not want to see any more new stories about it!

Don and Trigg discover the Monolith

I think a good history is being shown with a fair passage of time all the way since November, he went to see her four long months ago, and there is no impression of impulsiveness or any nonseriousness. A second visit is good insurance, but Mr. Odds ought to be able to go with what he has got, I mean that is the way it was originally set up to be done. A second trip would be excellent though. A lot would depend on the situation and the personality of the lady.

Next these same kind of people are going to try to get financing to buy and export some terra cotta soldiers.

It was the lady who would not let him spend the money for a plane. LOL. Congratulations!!! Remember I said I had a good feeling for your case? Whoo-hoo!

Sounds like Stepbrow is having a rough time. I don't see how he can take it.

The architecture used by the State Department is so unwelcoming it is like they are trying to repel applications.

My guess is that all your sponsorship related papers will be accepted without them focusing too much on the details because the overall presentation is shown just fine. I have a sense that your case will just easily go through the process. I hope I'm right. It seems like sometimes they refrain from jumping on the least little thing. Good luck.