Well I haven't posted in a long time. Now that my mother is looking at my blog on a regular basis and wanting more information, I've decided to start blogging on some kind of regularity again. However I will not be using this site, there's some reasons that I must split with blogger and with these reasons maybe you will understand why I haven't been blogging.

1. Chinese government censorship. Despite my nice message at the beginning of my blog a few months ago, sometimes our friends in the censorship army don't like what other people say and this makes getting to my blog very difficult. I will probably deal with this on my new site, but lets talk about some other reasons.

2. I directed my browser to blogger and got it in German then logged in and it was Chinese. Blogger can't really figure out what language it is when I am dealing with it. Often times when I am looking at other peoples blogs Deutch comes up for me there too. Some of you computer geek types are probably asking me "James why don't you just change the language of your site, that's really easy!" what they don't understand is...

3. No matter how many times I change the language on my personal blogger site, when I come back to it, its in Zhong-Wen (Chinese). I understand that its a handy tool that when someone IN China logs onto this site that you make it in their language, but when I change the language this process should be saved. I guess it never occurred to the blogger staff that some people might go live in another country for a year or something. Meanwhile I can recognize the sounds of about 2 of the symbols on my page currently--luckily I remember which buttons are which from previous use of this site.

4. A new site will make for a renewal of interest in writing.


so I'd like to point you in the general direction of my new blog: jlelandg.wordpress.com

Maybe when I get back to the states I'll change the name of this mess and write back on this one.

Signing off for now.