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Ok. Select pictures from the first half of my trip are posted here. I've decided to not post photos of anybody else's face here at SG - not without permission. Some people are more sensitive to such things than I am and I can respect that. So if you want to see what my girlfriend looks like (she's not bad) you'll have to go to my website. She's all over that thing - you can't escape her.

So...

The first 5 days or so of my trip weren't much fun. I landed late and nobody was there to greet me. Then I tried to phone K, but I couldn't figure out how to use the damn phones. So I walked around the airport. A few minutes later, I found her waiting for me at the wrong gate. She was tired and, I think, a little bit pissed. Not necessarily at me, but she had been waiting for a while, had had a trying day at work and was currently experiencing the wrong time of her month for a visit from her horny boyfriend. I had a cold sore, so we couldn't even kiss. It was... frustrating.

Things kinda went downhill from there, thanks to some cultural differences. It got to the point where I just wanted to go home. But a short talk later, everything was just fine. And then all the hindrances went away. Things improved rapidly. Sometimes too rapidly, but I hope I can be forgiven for that from time to time; it just feels too good, sometimes, you know?

Anyways, it ended with a special day for me. She wanted to celebrate my birthday by taking me shopping for clothes (she has very good taste in everything except boyfriends) and then out for an amazing dinner. What she wrote in the card made me cry. I told her that I think I'm a very, very lucky man.

She agreed.