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Exercising Atrophied Illustrator Muscles
Well it took a whole day, but I finished our nengajo (traditional Japanese New Years cards) design! Yay! Max helped out by drooling on my keyboard and now all we…
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lost in the ether
I did something today I’d never done before: I lost a chunk of my photo archives. The last 200 photos or so, including the originals of the ones used in…
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Mahoroba is Japanese Arcadia
Max was overtired and sleep-deprived today, so he just threw a big fit on and off for a couple hours. It was impossible to get any work done, but I…
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RIP Rapt7
My big white PC died today. Goodbye, brother. You served me well.
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Thai Superheroes
Among other subjects, I teach writing at my university. Writing is a subject that really helps identify certain types of students… like the girl who just today turned in a…
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Portent
A couple nights ago I dreamed I flipped my car (the Crown) over and bench pressed it. I woke up and bench pressed Max instead. No complaints there.
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A conversation I just had
A: Why did you let the mouse escape from the (nonlethal cage-type) trap? B: I was trying to put it in a box! A: Why? B: I wanted to put…
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garfinken
I get this strange urge to slap people who sing I am a rock out loud*… It triggers my “anti-mime” reflex on some primal level. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// * Yes, this happens…
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aaaand…we’re back!
So apparently our telephone lines got waterlogged from one of the storms spawned by the cyclone last week…. Never heard that one before, but it was apparently enough to add…
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Line down
Just a quick note: Our DSL at home is down after some big gusts from the big typhoon in Burma last week. Not sure what the problem is, but Friday…
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Isan News Update
It has been raining the past week, which is a rather curious development for this area this time of year. In fact, there was a pretty serious storm a couple…
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Nailed twice
Couldn’t find the original source for this one, but it earned a place here for giving me a good laugh: My dad’s Shih Tzu would hump on command: Jak! Humpy-humpy!…
