3 hours 36 minutes and counting until mission start

Better late than never - and so I finally scribble some words onto the blog. Haven’t slept much the last few days - no I didn’t party but I tried to get some additional things moving. So I went to Chicago about 23 hours before our departure from Urbana to meet some Chinese soybean buyers. They spent over $ 2 billion on their shopping spree through the midwest. But unfortunately most people were more interested in lunch than in talking to me. Yet in the end I got what I needed an interview during which my lunch got cold.