A working day

May 2, 2007 Wednesday

We worked on Chuck’s talk. Thanks to Maureen for offering her help, but it turns out that what he wanted to do was fairly simple. No bells and whistles. The only tricky thing was that one of the files was only available on the machine in the office. I was having to paste pictures into PowerPoint in Chinese. It took a couple of tries before I could get a new slide. Since I normally use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + P for copying and pasting, I didn’t have to find the words for them in the edit menu. (4 flights)

For dinner, we went back to Meng Cheng. There were 2 weddings going on, so we had dueling brides in the lobby. One had the good spot just inside the door with a nice picture of bride and groom on the backdrop behind her. A good photo op place. The other was in the corner, without backdrop. (I didn’t think her dress was as pretty either.) The remarkable thing was that the floor was constantly being mopped. The mopper went over and over the front lobby area, right by the brides, FOR THE WHOLE TIME THAT WE WERE THERE! I’ll bet she was in every picture.

The wait staff was a little worried about how to tell us to go to another room to pick food – but we had been there before, so we knew the drill. Our assigned order taker was very helpful in pointing out possibilities. We had the radish tower, soup in individual bowls, lettuce and flower petal salad with dressing, pork ribs with sautéed mushrooms, and steamed fish. (Picking the fish from the tank is a trip. There are about 6 different kinds of fish and several sizes. We accidentally found a good kind. Now, we know that the ones with the speckled tails are tasty without a lot of bones.) And of course – Watermelon.

Took leftovers home. That is the best part of the apartment. Now we have enough for 2 meals. (4 flights.) 8 total