regarding the certification i was pursuing, it seems i can take another test. now, however, you have to choose which track of certification you want, a general one or a specialist one. the specialist one requires 18 hours of classed yearly to maintain the status. that is difficult to achieve when you're outside the States. in the US, vendors show up at your office, bring you lunch, talk on a topic and voila! you have a green credit. have 18 of those lunches a year and you've met your requirement. that doesn't exist in other places. so i may opt for a humble certification, "green associate" in which i'm not required to take as many classes per year. i think just eight. learning Mandarin, new computer software and traveling keeps me plenty busy when i'm not working or doing yoga.
a colleague recycled a new rolling bag because he wanted a bigger one. i gratefully took it and now i can schlep my usual stuff between the apartment and the office. i was carrying a heavy laptop on a backpack, plus a Timbuk2 bag daily on my shoulders. i thought it was OK to do that, since they say carrying weight on your body helps maintain bone health. but i think that it could tire the heart out to be lugging heavy stuff all the time. plus, i do yoga daily-ishly, which makes you lift your body weight continually, so that should protect my bone health.
so here are pictures of the hotel i stayed at last week. it's rated as a business class hotel and was built about 3 years ago. the room is smallish but comfortable and had anything one would need, well, most of everything except internet access that worked. there was a refrigerator, tea kettle, double pane glass windows that isolated street noise, the modesty of wood blinds to separate the glass partition of the bathroom from the bedroom and a nice rainshower head. the bed was a tad hard. it's was a real value though. i spent 2 1/2 years scoping hotels throughout the States, so i always photograph the hotel rooms i visit.
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