Not exactly the Sunday I had planned. Woke up with one more attack of the Beijing disease, i.e. cough, sore throat and feeling lousy. I am repeating myself – living in Beijing is really bad for your health. I blame the pollution, the stress, the bouts of depression, etc. Not good for your immune system and worse for your respiratory system. Guess I will have to really stop smoking my favorite cigars. I’ll miss them. Try to sleep more (good luck). Get less stressed (good luck again). I already stopped any outdoor exercise and recently tried to be very careful in the gym – avoiding massive sweating while running, I can lose like 2 liters in one hour…. and staff has to mop the floor next to the treadmill!
I miss my days in Mongolia next to Lake Toilogt. No mobile, no e-mail, no pollution. Peace.
There is always a bright side to misery. I went through a mountain of unread newspapers and magazines and let my iMac run through test programs for nearly 24 hours (TechTool Pro4). Seems all is OK now and the disappearing act of my iDisk on the desktop seems to be solved.
We had a wonderful blue sky, some clouds that disappeared and then in the evening suddenly one of the most violent rain and storm I have seen over here.
This Monday morning, blue sky, seems it will be a hot day. I continue coughing, taking medicine fit to cure a horse while having bouts of fever. In my pajamas. Another advantage working in a “SOHO”. And the iMac seems fine, at least for now.