Speaking even more about Dubai, what do you call people from Dubai? Dubaians? Dubaiers? Dubes? Dubaites? Dubai-anites? Not a clue.

We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-5.9 quake hit Saturday about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Kangding in Sichuan province. China’s seismological agency put the magnitude at 6.3.[…] No major damage was reported in the town of Kangding, where CCTV video showed residents strolling the town’s streets, looking up at the steep surrounding hillsides and talking on their cellphones.[…] Kangding and the surrounding county have a population of 129,320 people, about 70 percent of them Tibetan.

Have I not loathed to live again and said It would have been far better to be dead, And yet somehow, I know not why, Remained afraid to die!