packing is a mess

We spent all after noon packing, and everything is a tremendous mess:

And if you look straight down from our living room window...

The illegal satellite dish attached (rather precariously) to the ledge outside our window. They took it down for two weeks when some government official was supposed to come and inspect the city and stuck it IN our living room, but now it's back up again, and we can watch bad TV in English versus only being able to watch bad TV in Chinese.