Maiden Voyage

So this is a blog huh? I fail to see what all the fuss is about. Of course this one, I imagine, will be pretty bare bones until i figure out what I'm doing. I'm nowhere near as computer literate as a person of my generation should be. The purpose of this blog will be to keep a record of my time in China, and post it online for my mother, and possibly one or two others, to check up on me. Confirm my status as still among the living. So far the most difficult part has been thinking of a title with a correspondingly available url. Url, that means "web address" right? Maybe it should all be capitalized, like an acronymn. I finally settled on "Excuse me, may I ask..." as this was the first Mandarin phrase I learned. As in "Excuse me, may I ask, where is College Road?" or, the more practical, "Excuse me, may I ask, do you speak English?" While China, and my adventures therein, are the mainspring for my venture into the blogosphere, I imagine I'll address any topic that strikes my fancy. And you can probably look forward to more stream-of-conciousness style writing so some of you may want to bail now, while we're still on the ground floor.