Chillin'
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Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket
This place is awesome. Definitely the nicest place we’ve ever paid for by ourselves. And this has got to be the best time to visit Phuket, right at the end of low season. Deserted beaches yet all the businesses are open and gearing up for high season. Also, everything is cheap and can be haggled down.
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Dragonfly in flood
This is what a wall in your house might look like if a dragonfly landed on it when there was a flood. — Photo taken at Tong’s juku where I teach high schoolers English on Thursday. I ‘shopped in the water for fun.
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Chill time with mommy
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Kaiju vs. Ronin
I keep telling Max that Ultraman is a poser compared to the Master, but for some reason, he chooses kaiju over Kurosawa every single time.
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I saw Pai Mei yesterday.
Or at least I thought I did. As he walked closer to my car, I saw he was actually an Indian Pai Mei with only one arm. Or maybe not. BTW, this is the official tune for Pai Mei spotting.
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Wifred is currently the best show on television
And goddamn, Mary Steenburgen is just… timeless.
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Old photos of HB
This photo gallery of Huntington Beach from the 1920’s shows just how many derricks there used to be on and near the beach. I had no idea how many had been taken down over the years, but I suspect the huge and oily wooden beams we used in front of our HB house as planter sidings 30 years ago came from that infrastructure. I also found another related image through Google that I can’t find the source for:
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Pinching
Just a note: It hasn’t always been so, and it may not always be so, but right now I’m at a stage in life where I’d rather do work for free than for a token amount of money… And I’m much more inclined to accept such offers from people who need it than those who don’t. That is all.
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This is what I felt like doing, all week
If I weren’t such a well-tempered and patient individual, I’d have maimed several people this week.
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The way it is
Everybody has a talent. It may be obscure, it may be something you’re sure nobody else can understand… but you should definitely take advantage of it. One of my talents is meeting random people who change my life at the damndest times. It happened again today. We just finished having beers.
