Did I mention things are blocked?

(posted by Dave)

Ah, yes, the big six zero anniversary of this nation is coming up next week, so the powers that be seem to be impeding several of our usual workarounds - just to make sure things run smoothly, no doubt. (Hmmmm....)
Anyway, I am now officially giving up on trying to connect with Facebook or any blog on Blogspot (including ours) until the whole brouhaha is over. For those of you who have not entered the world of proxy servers, mirror sites, VPNs, and all of the various and sundry ways that expats try to get around the Great Firewall here, consider yourselves lucky. It does provide a constant topic of conversation with any Westerner we happen to run into, though....