Author Archives: Carlos Causillas

This and that

Making room in your hard drive for new stuff can always be a challenge. I remember when having a 500 MB hard drive was considered amazing (yes, 500 Megabytes or 500,000 bytes or half a gigabyte). In those days a megabyte of storage used to go for $1 and we thought it was a bargain […]

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Goodbye 2012… Welcome 2013!!!!

Hard to believe we will be in China two years in February. This year ending in a few hours has been filled with lots of good things, challenges, trials, tests and through it all – blessings all around. We said goodbye to Nicholas (the little boy we fostered for a few brief months – his […]

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Merry Christmas!!!

Was it a surprise to anybody the world did not end on December the 21st? I think the Mayans got the short end of the stick on this one. As far as I can tell after reading several articles, the Mayans never said the world would end on December 21, 2012. The doomsday message came […]

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Hairy Crabs

Also known as Mitten crabs are considered a local delicacy especially in Shanghai and surrounding areas. I never heard about them in the US, but my research indicates that they have been introduced into the US and into Europe and are considered a potential threat to the native species in those areas. Hairy crabs (they […]

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