Smiling, confident, and toting my laptop I boarded the plane on November 7th enroute to Beijing. I could hardly wait to begin chronicling our journey through China. After settling in at the Peninsula Beijing, a superb hotel in a convenient location, I plugged in my laptop, found the wireless network and went to spacegoddess.net…almost!

You may have noticed that there are NO entries for our sojourn. Why? Because (I hope you’re listening, Mr. Blog host), I couldn’t connect to it from China! Hmmm, does China discriminate against Midwest USA bloggers? Is this some kind of Bush administration retribution (I bet you didn’t know I was that powerful!)? Perhaps a pro-Communist, anti-Zionist, isolationist, rightwing-leftwing, anti-female vendetta against travel advisors? Does my venting strike you as paranoid? I’ve told you countless times, “DON’T LISTEN TO MY ENEMIES!”

So, why couldn’t I connect to my blog? My best guess (feel free to correct me, Mr. Blog Host) is that I use WordPress and am connected through a circuitous route to my site that bypasses that wordy, long address ”spacegoddess.wordpress.com.yada.yada.yada”! Nah, that’s way too logical! I’m sure it’s those spinach eating, poison mushroom-growing post modern, victorian nihilists!