I've fallen behind on the blog

So much happens every day, that if you go a couple days without an update, you feel like you need to set aside 2 hours to cover everything. So I don't have 2 hours, but I figured I could try and bite off little bites here and there when I can.
So I had to go on a work trip saturday morning to a molding trial in Ningbo. I really have no idea where this is as I've just been going where people tell me to. I think it might be near shanghai.
We've been working late every night trying to get some tools running properly. but we still get to go out for dinner. We must be near the sea because last nights dinner was a collection of fish that I had to choose from before we sat down. I pointed at a few things and I'm pretty sure none of them ended up on our table (except for the crab, which was tasty but hard to get at without tools).
At one point I pointed at a doughnut looking thing and I was told I didn't want that b/c it was fried ice cream. I reassured them that was exactly what I wanted. Turns out fried ice cream is whisker different in china. they get the fried part right, but the ice cream (if there ever was any) by the time it gets to your table is just a trace residue of some creamy stuff. still tasty, just not quite the beltline bar.
You should also be leery of any presentation that begins, 'you need to try this, its a local specialty'. this usually means it tastes really bad but they keep serving it because it's 'special'. Ended up having to suck the head off a fish due to my lack of preparedness for the 'must try, local specialty' appeal.
Breakfast at the hotel was also interesting. They had cocoa crispies. Come on. Or at least they looked like cocoa crispies. Problem is, since no one in china eats cereal, it could very well have been last years box. It was a bit chewey. It also turns out that there was a cold milk dispenser and a hot milk dispenser. This is an important point to be aware of before shoving a giant spoonful of old gooey cocao crispies in your mouth. I had such high hopes for that bite.
Finally, the pictures are from a clothing store that was on our way back to the hotel from dinner. I love the one t-shirt. They started at the top with such promise. Very. They got it right. Then haughty. I think they were going for naughty, but I'm not sure. They the wheels start to come off the spelling wagon and they start making up words. By the time you get to the bottom, they've given up any pretense of spelling an english word and are just happy to be stringing random letters together. You gotta know they were thinking people wouldn't know the difference anyway. why waste our time looking for a vowel.
Finally, finally. People do a lot of standing for their jobs here. All the security guards stand. The hostesses all stand. They never move. They just stand there all day. I'm not sure why this shocks me so much, but you see folks there for hours just smiling and happy to help. Or not. either way is fine. I have a job. I get to stand still all day and get paid. Life is good. Just seems odd to me.
Anyway, enough for now. Try again tomorrow. Peace out.