Mina’s got it, but we caught it early. The new nanny had seen it before and told us to get it checked out- yay for us finding an experienced nanny. The pediatrician started Mina on an oral course of nystatin; hopefully her whole mouth won’t turn to cottage cheese.
On a related note, Max’s cough is almost gone, which is a big relief. It took way too long for it to get better, and he’s been out of school for eight days now (this week the teachers were gone from Monday to Wed. to Udon Thani for a conference or something). Nam and I have been taking turns watching him and it’s a relief that he can go to school tomorrow so we can FINALLY GET STUFF DONE.
Category: Chillin’
Half-hour improvement
The baby titans awoke at 4:00 this morning. They’re cute as hell when they wake up smiling, but I’d rather be sleeping…
In other news, I’ve almost caught up with my email backlog.
First day of the new academic year (Thai/Buddhist Year 2553)
Babies woke up at 3:30AM and are just now going back to sleep, as we head out for work. Not fair.
On the positive tip, we found a new nanny in less than 48 hours being back, and that’s a goddamn huge accomplishment. It also may allow us to get more than a couple hours sleep every day from now on. Yay.
We are home.
We made it back home safely, and I recommend that every parent try a 20-30 hour journey by planes just for kicks.
Our trip was extended by nearly a week when Mina caught roseola or something similar that left her dotted for a while; Korean Air extended our tickets for free and we took the opportunity to visit Mika and Adam up in Monterey/Pacific Grove/Seaside. Details will probably follow in some fashion.
To everybody – family, friends, and even random strangers – who made our trip possible and enjoyable, thank you. It meant a lot to be able to expose the kids to all of you and yours.
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Meanwhile, my Crown lies immobile in the driveway, battery dead (even though I disconnected it before we left).
Our Cefiro is apparently finished at the body shop, and we’ll go check it out today. Speaking of which, I’m up at six in the morning because Max stayed up all night planting plastic animals in strategic spots where I will step on them later.
Need sleep.
Will report back soon.
Play it faster, play it faster!!
Talking to my dad’s older sister today, I learned something very important. My father has the only western name (as opposed to Japanese) among all his siblings because his oldest sister named him after a popular actor at the time, Dave O’Brien (real name David Poole Fronabarger). The other thing of great importance is that Dave O’Brien had a memorable role in Reefer Madness.
That is all.
Yub Nub – Pwning interspecies relations since 1983
You need to watch this video for your life to be complete. Really.
Via my bro.
BONUS: A subtitled barbershop quartet rendition, if you’re into that sort of thing
UPDATE: If you’re nerd enough to have come this far, you deserve a top shelf link: Total Recall: The Musical
A quick note about the Garmin nüvi 1450t
I bought one today for navigating around my home country… Took it home from Walmart and thought it was broken because it wouldn’t sync with the satellites. Eventually decided to look it up online and one Amazon reviewer said that it took quite a while to acquire a satellite signal upon first use – so I took it outside, restarted, and let it sit on a plastic table for a while. Almost ten minutes later, it was good to go.
It’s funny, though, if I hadn’t read this review on Amazon, I would have thought it was defective for sure.
Band of Brothers it ain’t
Dear The Pacific,
I wanted to love you, I really did.
But you disappoint weekly.
Sincerely,
J
J
A respite from hot season
Yesterday was positively cold and today was as pleasant a day as it gets here; cool enough for long sleeves in the morning and warm enough for short sleeves in the afternoon. I don’t know what I did to earn this respite from what should be mind-shockingly hot days strung together into weeks into months into… but I’ll take it.