Delay

Sorry for the delay in getting my final leg of Beijing and Luoyang up.  The intertubes around here have for the past several days become cripplingly slow and reset all connections every few minutes, leaving me unable to upload or access any meaningful amount of media.  They say it should improve in the next few days.

A brief anecdote until then: iTunes, mercifully, allows one to pause and resume downloads, resulting in us being able to, over the course of a couple days, download the presidential and vice presidential debates.  It's been a pretty good source of entertainment as we crowd around someone's laptop for an hour and a half, and many of our Chinese roommates have also been enraptured by the show, never before having seen these kinds of things happen, much less be televised.