My sister Marie and her husband Troy just had their second baby, Sam, yesterday. (He was apparently somewhere around 9 pounds, healthy and all.) Between my two sisters that’s three boy children and no girls, and Lime said, “We should have a little girl.” My mother tried to call to let me know, but her “damn phone card” wasn’t working. Nor was mine, for that matter. Anyway, a big hand of congratulations to Marie, Troy, and Sam, who’s got a big crazy world to deal with, but hey, so do we all. Good luck, nephew. ;)
Category: GENERAL
Random Bits From a Long Day
So, today I: was reassured not to worry about tinnitus that I wasn’t worrying about. had, I will actually admit, a song by a J-Rock band used in a mobile telephone commercial stuck in my head, enough even to download it. (5 points to the first person who can name the song.) got a (somewhat unsurprising, since it was a long shot) rejection letter from the Very Good Zine which is called Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet realized (horrors!) that I have exactly one story out at a market at the moment, and that one’s on hold. Must have a look …
A Sticky Question
UPDATE: The video is back online, but embedding is now disallowed, by the author’s request. Too bad. But you can go see it here. Original Post: They want to make abortion illegal. Sooooo, then… what should the punishment be, of thoughtful and long-devoted Christians? (For those reading this on LJ, the video won’t embed, so here’s a link. Except, ha, someone put a copyright claim on it. Yeah, RIGHT.Makes me wish I’d downloaded it so I could upload it again somewhere, a few times. Anyway, here’s an article on the same issue, and hopefully the copyright claim gets resolved, or …
Write-a-thon (Today, Writhe-a-thon) Countdown Continues: Thursday Update
Writhe-a-thon… it was a typo, but an accurate one considering how I felt today. I seem to have been food poisoned on Wednesday night. Something’s been messing with my system, making me feel cold when it’s hot, hot when it’s cold, making me sleep most of the day, making me feel dizzy and weak, and, of all things, making me pee a lot. (And no, it’s not diabetes.) We have a theory that it was either the food I picked up on the way home last night — Lime had a hankering for something she used to have when whe …
YoungRocco2 Rants
Oh good grief. A day later, I’m now, says YoungRocco2, who seems to think he knows me, a “hypocrite” (comment #56), and there’s a hundred comments in between that one and my response. Would be nice if I could thread this comment above, but whatever… YoungRocc2 wrote: Gordsellar: You’re a bit of hypocrite. In earlier posts you criticize Koreans for being too nationalistic–for being too concerned with Korean problems and not caring about other countries. Now, all of a sudden you change tacks and criticize these Korean missionaries for NOT focusing on problems at home, claiming that they should have …
Ran Like a Bastard
I took Lime to the campus gym. 20 minutes on the treadmill, 15 minutes on the bike. She forced me to do more stretching than I usually do, but that’s good: I ought to. I also did some weights — mostly upper-body stuff, mostly to pass the time while I cooled down. Tomorrow, I think I’d like to hike the mountain instead.
Non-Write-a-Thon stuff…
Lately, my updates have all been write-a-thon related, so here’s something on a different tack altogether. I booked my tickets to Japan (but not to Russia — I’m considering using the trans-Siberian railway next summer instead, and seeing Vladivostok at that time instead, though I may take a brief jaunt up to Sakhalin Island from Hokkaido, if I can get the visa easily and things look doable. There’s a ferry, at least…). So instead of Far-Eastern Russia and Japan this summer, I’m going to do a little more time in Japan and spend the remainder probably here in Bucheon, reading, …
Walking
Went for a two-hour walk on the evening of the 4th with Lime, and a 1-hour walk on the evening of the 5th. We discovered a lovely little countryside-looking area right by the University — lots of stuff growing in fields, frog orchestras croaking like mad, trees all around. This is a good hint why the area is a lot cooler than usual. Anyway, LONG walks. We’ll be hitting the gym again soon, though.
Canadian Ex-Defence Minister Says Alien Technology Gonna Save the World
Yes, really. A former Canadian defence minister says be believes advanced technology from extraterrestrial civilizations offers the best hope to “save our planet” from the perils of climate change. Which is a tremendous insult to all the people working in alternative energy, technology, science, research, for the environment, studying climate change, studying ecology, and to the mothers and fathers and spouses who tell one another and the kids to turn off the lights when they got to bed. What an embarrassment. (And yeah, I read this as a link from a story about Haut’s letter on Roswell, which actually hit …
Monohomouniwoori
My internet connection was blocked for half an hour today, which is, yes, a short time, but it was infuriating. It was infuriating because it happens every semester. The IT guys on on campus are always installing some new kind of “security” or “firewall” or “anti-virus” application. So for half an hour, the University server showed me this everytime I tried to connect to the Net. It was telling me that I could not access the Internet unless I installed something called InciterX. Of course, that’s some kind of Windows thing, but when I searched for informaiton on it on …