I am back in Texas and finally turned around after traveling nearly 40,000 miles in the last four weeks.  Crossed both oceans and saw the sun rise in time zones 9 and 13 hours away. This is not conducive to a lot of writing and my word production slacked off toward the middle of last week while I was enjoying the wonders of amazing Beijing.  I did manage to exercise daily, so that's something, I reckon.  intend to stop being such a slacker, this very weekend, now that I've had a couple of decent nights sleep. I'll try to blog a bit more, too.