Pink houses

Made it back home in time for some onion rings and Sunday night football last night. I knew I was home when my alarm went off this morning playing John Cougar Mellencamp. Even though my body is here, my sleeping patterns are all over the place, but I did make it out to be dragged around on a 7-miler this morning. David wouldn't come off his 7:30 pace, and I had to keep up to answer all his questions about China, traveling in a communist country, and to catch up on the Razorback game from Saturday night. Plus, I'm less than four weeks out from the New York Marathon and have some catching up to do in that department.

I'll be catching up at the office and on the campaign trail today -- I'm working a plant gate shift change this afternoon to visit with some local workers. I did forget to post about the maglev train in Shanghai, which traveled at about 190 mph there in the urban areas. It was nice, but that type of high speed rail is pretty much cost-prohibitive. Even in that megalopolis of 20 million +, it's hemorrhaging money. Even though the cost of a ticket is just $6 from downtown to the suburban airport, that's highly expensive in China.