After the crazy birthday last year ($1,000 worth of stuff and my passport stolen) I promised myself that future birthdays wouldn’t be spent at foreign police stations. So far it is a success. But in an hour my flight departs for Shanghai which will cut my birthday short by crossing the International Date Line.

The mountains were beautiful on my flight from Petersburg to Juneau. I’ll soon be on a flight to Seattle where i’ll be renewing my Aquatic Facility Operator certification. On the 6th I head to Shanghai!

On Friday we had our "guy’s lunch out" and somehow I mentioned the ping pong table at work. Within hours there was a battle in the activity room. For almost 3 hours Seth went undefeated. He took it easy on me as I learned the game.