After the bus ride home i went grocery shopping. i am glad i spent some time in Algonquin sophomore year in college. The latest expiration date on the milk was the day before i bought it. Three months of eating week old pizza and three day old sushi left on the living room floor prepared me well for this.

after grocery shopping i walked up to domino's because i have been fiending for some pizza. i remembered passing it going to the shopping mall last weekend. i thought it would be a nice 20-30 minute walk turns out it was about 90 minutes one way but it was cool getting to see a part of the city i have not seen yet. domino's was not so bad either.

on the walk home i stopped at an antique place that was pretty cool. Definitely a good spot to return to with visitors. There was a guy in full red army regalia selling tons of old army paraphernalia.

this picture to the left was near my apartment. They are remodeling a restaurant and people were grinding metal for the doorway. The pic is of the surge protector that is on the step and two wires held jammed into the surge protector with what appears to be popsicle sticks. The other ends of the wire are wrapped around the plug of yet another surge protector which has two industrial tools plugged into it.

yet another companion piece to lonely shoes. This one is called dusty shoes. They are my own shoes after my day of long hikes. The only place they were clean is where pants were rubbing them dry.

after i rested some at home i went out to dinner with Helen near guomao. We went to a nice Hong Kong styled restaurant. Their special dish was crab so we tried some of it. i was expecting crab meat but the important part of the crab here is the yellow part and the roe. They get a bunch of it and make a sauce that is used to cook something else. In this case mushrooms. It turns out to be really good. After dinner i was exhausted so i took a long ass cab ride home and passed out.

music for the weekend is Michael mayers - john peel session - one louder or somewhere else on the internet. He is the head of a German techno label called kompakt. This is the type of techno that i would play for someone who does not like electronic music though. The first two thirds of the mix just lope along with this slightly syncopated beat that oozes fluidity. It falls off for one song with a little too much vocoder but finishes strong. i listened to this on repeat for almost three straight hours. In fact i am going to listen to it now.