Checkered Lounge Pants

Went to Bangkok on Monday and saw the folks at visa application center that EMBASSY recommended for visitor visa for Ning. That went much much much better than expected. Navigated my way through Bangkok public transit system and found the VAC on the 28tj floor of sky scraping office tower. They had a specific canAda office and provided missing forms And polished up my pile of documents with Ning and filed the application to Canadian embassy Fly to Hanoi on Saturday. Got hotel booked for two nights then bus up to Sapa. Rent motorcycles and ride to China. Should be a gas.

‘Refrigerators, Towels, Whatever You Want,’ Residents Say DETROIT—Emphasizing that its workforce and facilities were just waiting for the go-ahead to start up production, the city of Detroit pleaded with the American people Tuesday to just give it something—anything at all, really—to manufacture. Mayor Mike Duggan, addressing reporters on behalf of a municipality where the unemployment rate remains above 10 percent, repeatedly asserted Detroit’s willingness to turn raw materials into finished products of any kind, be they plastic goods, textiles, electrical equipment, industrial supplies, metal products, paper, chemicals, heavy machinery, biomaterials, processed foods, or something else entirely. “The city of Detroit is eager to build anything and everything for the American people—seriously, whatever you guys want,” said Duggan, who recently sent a press release to thousands of CEOs nationwide explaining that tens of thousands of employees and many millions of square