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Partners in Crime – Joyride
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geeks
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Car update
The Crown is running better than it ever has before. The problem wasn’t the alternator. It was missing six little spring-loaded push pins that bridge the tops of the spark plugs with the coil packs. Having this fixed after trying to figure it out for two years is indescribably liberating. The other car is still in the shop, awaiting new boots for the right side A-arm. Today is the king’s birthday, so everything is closed; repairs will continue tomorrow.
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I want to eat yakiniku with Jack O’Shea
///////////////////////// Oh, enlighten me Wikipedia: Jack O’Shea’s I miss living in Sumoto, five minutes walk from Kobe/Tajima beef in any direction. Paying fifty bucks per filet/sirloin seemed expensive even then, but I have a feeling I’ll never have such easy access again…
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Two batteries, two alternators, one radiator
We’ve been having a run of bad car luck as of late. A couple weeks ago, a cop from Khon Kaen backed into our parked Cefiro and broke off the front license plate holder. Nam saw it happen from the pediatrician’s clinic across the street where she had taken Max for a booster shot. She took it to my pal Ot’s shop and got it replaced (on the cop’s dime, of course). The very next day, I lightly clipped a scooter that was running the wrong way down the street and crossed in front of me as I was waiting to turn out. The young female rider must have known…
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Family Trip to Central Khon Kaen
Mina scratched up her nose from falling, so we bought her a hand knit hat* that doubles as a helmet. It’s the only hat she has ever tolerated wearing. Max likes taking photos with mommy. ///// * Max and Mina got matching Lilo & Stitch hats sold by a nice stall vendor. 360 Baht for the pair.
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The best cat video on the internet.
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The Accidental Motorcycle Thief
The other day, I wanted to go for a quick lunch at the canteen (cafeteria), so I asked one of the students interning for the Japanese course if I could borrow her scooter. She gave me the key and told me where it was parked, along with a description. She said the license plate number was 85, and that it was a 100cc Honda Wave, with a manual transmission, in gray. I found the 100cc manual Honda Wave almost immediately, but noticed that the license plate was actually 58 and that it was blue with gray accents. I chalked it up to the student remembering it wrong, or me hearing it…
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I’m grading writing tests now
Three papers out of sixty in, and my favorite sentence, by far, is in regards to the internet and Facebook usage: “We don’t know blackground of partner.”
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Dropbox is addictive
Getting more Dropbox space is like earning achievements in your favorite video game. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ It’s been a while since I wrote about Dropbox vs. Google Docs (for MS Office document backup), and there have been new developments since then that really make this software interesting. So how do you get started? First, create a Dropbox account (clicking this link gives you and I both 250MB extra storage space on top of your initial 2GB) After you sign up, you will be presented with a list of basic tasks that teach you the basics of the service. As an incentive, you are awarded extra storage space (250MB) upon completion of all…
