nwoT eikgnoH Hongkie Town

Yes, I haven't been posting quite as much the past few days. I'm exhausted. I look around the house and see how much work remains to be done and am paralyzed into a state of inactivity. But with a four day weekend coming up, hopefully no excuses and I'll emerge out the other side with most of this stuff completed.

I've had this idea that I should head into town and have a beverage or two in the bars, but that has yet to happen. There's this new Van Morrison album out called "Keep It Simple," and there's a track on there called "Don't Go to Nightclubs Anymore," which is basically a rework of the old "I Don't Get Around Much Anymore" song and what's funny is that he mentions by name some of the people he doesn't see now because he's not going out, and I know people by all those names too! (Well, it was funny to me.)

In the past week I've had the lights out by 11:30 most nights and staying in bed till 8:30 or so each morning, which would be great if I didn't suffer from OSA and don't like using my CPAP machine. Well, again, I'm hoping for a return to normalcy by next week.

I've also been wanting to reward myself with a serious massage but keep putting that off, in part because I can't think of where to go to get one. (Last one, at Sauna Lotto in Wanchai, was okay - but the best part was the free ice cream.) Any recommendations? (And no, I'm not looking for a happy ending.)

It's also occurred to me that while I used to make an average of two trips per month, I haven't been out of Hong Kong in two months (not counting one day trip to Shenzhen). I think this is the longest I've ever remained in town. Two trips coming up in April though (Tokyo and Manila).

Of all the searches that have led people to this blog in the past few days, I think the strangest has to be a google search for "hsbc atm map costa rica."

Ah well, lunch time ....