SOMETIMES I FEEL, YOU KNOW, NOT SO FRESH: I’ve used a lot of scheduled posts this week, as I’ve been busy with family stuff necessitating a quick trip to Nashville. Sorry, but I can’t be at the computer all the time.

UPDATE: Reader Meredith Oyen emails: “I don’t know if you’ve just been at the computer late at night, or some of those scheduled posts were set for 2 or 3 in the morning on purpose, but as an expat I enthusiastically support late night posts. The US is not generally doing a lot of blogging at late afternoon China time.” Yeah, I actually started scheduling middle-of-the-night posts because some folks in the other hemisphere were unhappy with the slowness during those hours.