This headline is meant to be cryptic.  To those of you who may understand what I am talking about, I say it again, in the road to peace, I wanna to be the Israelis; you can be the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, here is the second WTU I made today.  It was made minutes after Wuxi Tony Update Two Hundred Seventeen.  So for those of you who are from countries with poor math skills and those who aren't, I present Wuxi Tony Update Two Hundred Eighteen.

I don't mean to imply that some nations are dumber than others.  Heavens no!  Perish that thought or insinuation!

Taken on the morning of October 30, 2008, this latest episode of the Wuxi Tony Update Series says everything you need to know about the questions of human existence.  So watch and become illuminated as you see Tony wander about the house in his pajamas.

Lord help him if he does.

Take a walk with Tony.  He show you around our apartment in Wuxi Tony Update Two Hundred Sixteen, the latest installment of the greatest thing since they put a photo of sliced bread on the Internet and the KoW stopped going to work in the nude while eating a big salami sandwich.

The Breadtalk in Wuxi Yaohan (formerly Ba Bai Ban) was to have had its much-hyped opening last week.  The KoW, the world's greatest lover of bread, had planned to camp overnight at the store entrance dressed in his Darth Vader suit (he couldn't fit in his wife's dress, he told AKIC, and nudity was only for watching the Olympics).  But as of yesterday, the bakery is still not open.  AKIC confirmed this fact, personally yesterday at lunch time.  Rumor has it that the bakery has yet to receive the ingredients it needs.

Here is a photo, of the next anointed one, taken Wednesday morning.

It can get getter than Wuxi Tony Update Two Hundred Fourteen.

Watch as Tony makes his mother laugh with his hilarious antics.

Here my son Tony walking about the apartment in a sweater that his grandmother in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada knitted for him.

Here is a photo of these security guards that have been wandering around the neighborhood.  I wished I could have taken a photo when they were beneath my verandah window, but they had marched off by the time I got my camera.  Anyway, in this photo, you may be able to see the ridiculous uniforms and helmets that these poor sods have to wear.  And it is hard to take them seriously when they are wearing sneakers.

It doesn't get any better than this.

Friday morning was a great time to take some photos as I rode to work.  Here is what I saw.

The Hui Shan Exhibition Center.

Boat Traffic.

Freeway Traffic.

Greenhouses.

Boathouses and Factories.

Not much to say for myself this morning, so I have just pointed the camera out the window...

....and taken a photo of the lane behind the apartment.  You can see our complex is half-finished.

I go into the bedroom, and I can see this:

Can't complain.

This WTU is a real snoozer but still a celebration of the fact that Tony was asleep.  Alas, I wish it was so now.  I took this video yesterday when he stayed in bed till 1100 AM.  This morning, he is up four hours earlier.  I still can't shake the grogginess.

As always, I should be thanking WuxiLife for linking my blog on their site.  I also like to thank the person who plugged the blog in one of the WuxiLife forums.

But to be honest, I don't know if I am such a great guide to Wuxi anymore or ever was.  Currently, this blog revolves around my son Tony and my idiosyncratic reactionary conservative view points.  Living on in the burbs, Wuxi is a place I work and then quickly get the hell out of.

Surfing the Internet, I came upon this list.  I suppose some people would find this offensive.  Oh Well.   It was tongue and cheek, and got me to laugh.  Some people like pee pee and poo poo jokes, which I find tiresome.  I like Gun Nut humor.

Top Ten Gun Safety Tips

10. Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction, such as at a Hippy or a Communist.

9. Dumb children might get a hold of your guns and shoot each other. If your children are dumb, put them up for adoption to protect your guns.

8. No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey.

7. If guns make you nervous, drink a bottle of whiskey before heading to the range.

6. While unholstering your weapon, it’s customary to say “Excuse me while I whip this out.”

5. Don’t load your gun unless you are ready to shoot something or are just feeling generally angry.

4. If your gun misfires, never look down the barrel to inspect it.

3. Never us your gun to pistol whip someone. That could mar the finish.

2. No matter how excited you are about buying your first gun, do not run around yelling “I have a gun! I have a gun!”

1. And the most important rule of gun safety: Don’t piss me off.

"Did I tell you my beer story, Honey?".

"No, you didn't", I replied.  "Please do tell."

"Tony knows how to open drink cans.  Don't ask me how!  I didn't teach him.  But one day I was at the store, and I bought 5 cans of beer (pineapple beer).  Tony opened one which I didn't realize till after I bought them.  The can was leaking.  So Tony and I had to share the beer."

"What a wonderful story", I said, "Can I put it in the blog?"

"No.  Certainly not!"

What memories does the number Two Hundred  Eleven evoke for you?  It does not remind me of a single thing, till now. 

Yes, from now on, I think the number Two Hundred Eleven will be forever enshrined as a number used for an episode of the greatest, most interesting, most extraordinary, most fantastic, least scandal-ridden, most frank, and most portish-in-the-stormish safeiest Baby Update series ever conceived for any information delivery system using whatever technology in any dimension ever.  And I mean EVER.

So, Ladies and Gentlemen and Loafers, AKIC is proud to present Wuxi Tony Update Two Hundred Eleven, dedicated to all the John Galts of the world who hopefully don't have to go into hiding after November 4.

Yours Truly and the other guy went for a walk Monday afternoon.

We explored a new area and saw some of the following things.

Lovely scaffolding.

Old Buildings

The obligatory canal.

And more construction.

And a place with a lot of flags.

Look closer.  You will see that the Canadian Flag is between the flag of France and the United Kingdom.  Reminds me of a joke where certain body parts talk to each other and the punch line is about.....

Anyway, Tony then went for a walk.

Wuxi Tony Update #210: 

Sunday afternoon, the Kaulins family went to a coffee house in the 1912 Bar District of Downtown Wuxi (which is near the Train station).  Of course, I took some snaps.

My stats were two passes out of three completed for seventy yards and one touchdown, the game winning touchdown in fact.

I also took some snaps of prominent Wuxi personalities.

The Family K then went to Baoli.  The wife did shopping.  The boys went to play.

One of the fifty books that I had to bring with me to China was Somerset Maugham's On a Chinese Screen: a collection of short vignettes about China published in 1922.  I have just been flipping through it.

China has suffered a lot of history since 1922 and it has changed in many ways.  And although Maugham describes a non-Communist China in his book, I still see the book as relevant today.  When I think of the people I have meet in China, whether Chinese or Foreign, I wonder if perhaps something about them relates to one of the Maugham's 1922 vignettes.

Maugham, in On a Chinese Screen, writes from the perspective of a foreign traveler and makes no effort to be authentic.  He describes it like he sees and feels it.  In one vignette, he describes the thrill of discovery you get as you proceed along a Chinese road.  I get similar thrills whether I walk the countryside roads near here or even go down a more urban alley.  Another story that left an impression on me from the book was of a man immersed in classical Greek civilization and not making the effort to know more about China - sounds like me.  My obsession is U.S. politics.   In other vignettes, he talks about the pettiness of relations between Expats - I have seen it here and been guilty of it.  Another story sees a conventionally unconventional man comes to China to complain of its' inhumanity only to end up taking part in it. 

But my favorite passage from the book has always been the following.  The man who has experienced interesting things and yet....

When I met him I sought to discern how the variety, of his experience had affected him; but though he was full of anecdote, a jovial, friendly creature, willing to talk at length of all he had seen, I could not discover that any of his adventures had intimately touched him. The civilised world irked him and he had a passion to get away from the beaten trail. The oddities of life amused him. He had an insatiable curiosity. But I think his experiences were merely of the body and were never translated into experiences of the soul. Perhaps that is why at bottom yon felt be was commonplace. The insignificance of his mien was a true index to the insignificance of his soul. Behind the blank wall was blankness.

I read the passage repeatedly.  I wonder how it applies to me or maybe it applies to all the other people who tell you what significant experiences they have had.