If you were able to complete the title of this blog, you must be about 60 years old. When Paul Simon recorded “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor” 45 years ago, I never thought he was talking about our future in China:
When a person buys an apartment in China, it’s basically a unfinished concrete box. In order to make it livable, it must be “decorated” – requiring several months of construction activity to install flooring, wiring, plumbing, a kitchen, etc. Our upstairs neighbor recently hired “decorators,” and the hammer-drilling was often unbearable: click here to listen: Hammerdrilling
The deafening sound and vibrations make you wonder if the ceiling will collapse. And one afternoon, a chunk of concrete did fall into our kitchen:
The construction worker came down, broke away the center piece, and wired a board up from above: 
He filled it with concrete, came back several days later, and plastered the gaps:
Other than the perennial rust spot where he flattened the wire, it doesn’t look too bad:
“It’s just apartment house rules
So all you ‘partment house fools
Remember: one man’s ceiling
Is another man’s floor.”
(Paul Simon, 1973)
We listened to the audio while in bed last night – how lovely! Glad life is staying exciting over there…