ganked from Writing Under a Pseudonym A- Available or single? No. Sorry to disappoint. B- Best Friend? Lime. C- Cake or Pie? Definitely pie. D- Drink of Choice? Water, actually. E- Essential Item? I agree with Jade: my laptop. F- Favorite Color? Haven’t had one since elementary school. G- Gummi Bears or Worms? No thanks. I’ll have some peach licorice, though. H- Hometown? Saskatoon, Canada. I- Indulgence? Oh, I’m cutting back. Let’s say DVDs and soft cheeses. J- January or February? January, because February is the real cruelest month. K- Kids and names? I like those old native Korean names, …
Category: PERSONAL
Mac vs. Windows vs. The Other Guy: Think Prophylactics and Full Potential
So this mailing list I’m on is caught up in one of its repeating discussion-obsessions. The Mac fanatics are arguing the points of the Mac. The Windows users are responding, mostly in terms of how much better Windows is for gaming. I am reading it on my little Linux machine. Outside my window, I can hear one of those bloody trucks that drives around selling stuff. You don’t have these in most countries. I really wish someone would make it illegal to disturb the peace that way… driving around the back roads and side streets with a loudspeaker attached to …
Liquor Cabinet Blogging
This post starts out scary, but it won’t stay that way, I promise. Nothing graphic, just a little discussion of prostatitis diagnosis and treatment. Good news. Nothing too scary… Hell, I’m playing Milt Jackson in the background. Nobody can do anything very scary with vibraphone music playing in the background, can they? So I’ll announce the meme here, and then blather a bit, knowing you’ll stick around for the good stuff, right? The meme is: blog what’s in your liquor cabinet. Or cupboard.
Weirdness
Yeah, I know, there’s some weirdness on my site. I updated to WordPress 2.1 and some of my plugins are acting a little kooky. But it’ll take a day or two to get everything back to (ab)normal. Please bear with me till then. Thanks! UPDATE: Never mind, it was a plugin conflict and I fixed it up pretty quickly. But expect some changes in the look and feel of this blog, to reflect my commitment to posting less. And expect some more-accessible archives, to make wha I happen to write when I fail at that resolution more available to readers. …
John, Beer Pen, Pool, Expatriat(ism)e, Sleep, Shinchon Pianos, White Cranberry Chocolate, and Back Pain
Couldn’t think of a good title, so it’s kind of a summary of the post. Yesterday I met with my friend John, whom some might know as Ritu‘s husband. I’d just finished my course of antibiotics and was eager to test whether or not my prostate is back to normal, which was a good thing, as we went out for a few beers and caught up. For having a pint of Guinness on draft, I was rewarded with a Guinness pen! Hmm. It writes okay, too. It’s too bad I have no depth perception, or I’d have volunteered to have …
Good Korea Day
When I returned to Korea from Canada, I felt particularly frustrated in returning, which worried me. “Have I had enough?” I asked myself? “Should I live here longer? Am I burning out?” It’s not too surprising, mind you. The bus ride from the airport was like a mental trial. The bus driver refused to open the luggage compartments on the side of the bus, so we had to haul everything up into the bus, which was a lot of baggage. (Compare that to the bus drivers in Montreal, who actually helped carry our bags onto the bus for us.) The …
Dad’s Anniversary
I had a lot of things written, but didn’t want to post them until after I’d talked to my Mum, and then, in retrospect, I didn’t want to post them at all. That’s why this is posted on what is technically the 5th, a day late according to Korean time, but actually February 4th in Canadian time. My mother, by the way, is doing okay. When I called, she was talking about happy things, and she really seems fine. I am too. I realized that unconsciously knowing this date was coming was probably part of my inexplicably messed-up sleeping patterns, …
Who’s More Embarrassing, Ted Haggard or Richard Dawkins?
Over at Goth House Comics you’ll find a “a really long essay about the nature of religion” which I think merits some attention, though I disagree with parts of it. It was, apparently, written in response to this interview with the wonderful, terrible, fascinating Richard Dawkins, whose latest book, The God Delusion, is on my to-read list though, with the number of books I brought back from Canada, it may be quite a while until I actually read it. (And, I should add, Elaine Pagels’ The Gnostic Gospels is on the very same reading list.) The post reminded me of …
Back…
We’re home. Not much more to say for now. Slept till almost noon, but feel confident I’m not far off local time now. Lime’s off to the hospital to pick up where she left off. There’s about twenty days of work left for her now, and then she’ll have a short holiday, at least in theory. As for me, I’ve done some of the unpacking, but must start in on the repacking. Once I enter my books into my LibraryThing account, that’s what I’m going to start doing. We’re moving to a bigger apartment in this building sometime this month, …
Narita
We’re in the United Airlines lounge in Narita Airport, in Japan. I got my wireless working, but only in Windows — still, not bad considering I only reinstalled both Windows and Ubuntu Linux on this laptop the day before we flew to Canada. I’m about to go for a wander, but first, I thought I’d post this. Let’s see… we managed to get our upgrade to business class. Everyone we talked to made it sound likely, but uncertain, so we ended up getting up early in the morning, getting to the airport at 8am (for a 12pm flight), and we …