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Chief “Tucker Fucker”?
I don’t think I want that man going anywhere near my tucker (definition 5).
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/January/2019 @ 8:42 pm
Congratulations!
Are you working this trail from both ends, i.e., exploring its trailhead on some days, and exploring its endpoint on others to see where they connect in the middle? Well, whatever method you’re using, it seems to be working as you chip away at this problem, which seemed intractable at first. Eventually, you’ll know the trail forwards and backwards.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/January/2019 @ 12:59 pm
Ah. In that case, I’ll leave you to your self-torture. Zen Buddhists say hell is right here if you bring it with you.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/January/2019 @ 6:12 pm
There must be some way to turn that damn “Memories” function off.
No?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/January/2019 @ 4:20 pm
Great photos, as always.
BTW, there are free apps that you can download in order to flip your backwards selfie images so that they’re facing the right way. Or, it’s possible your phone’s camera software has a “flip horizontal” function (unfortunately, mine doesn’t, but then again, I also don’t have a problem with flipped photos because the camera itself shows a mirror image before I take a selfie, then flips the photo right-wise after the photo’s been taken).
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/January/2019 @ 3:38 pm
You read my mind. I saw those memes on Gab and Instapundit. I had wanted to slap them up on my blog, too, but it’s enough to know they’re on display here.
Good luck solving the puzzle of the local trails.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/January/2019 @ 9:48 pm
Journey to the center of the Earth
Let me rephrase: if only the world of drinkers were happy drunks…
(We teetotalers find happiness just fine without medication!)
BTW, those ribs look damn good.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/January/2019 @ 8:35 pm
If only the whole world were happy drunks…
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/January/2019 @ 6:11 pm
Were you able to make new keys without finding the old keys? How’d you manage that? Or: did you switch out the keys and locks entirely with new keys and locks, such that whoever finds your old keys won’t be able to get into your place?
Anyway, sorry to read about the shitty day. Tomorrow, you start again. Lucky for us, Mother Nature hits the reset button every 24 hours.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/January/2019 @ 9:31 pm
The Last Supper, as catered by Donald Trump. Nice.
Only Jesus seems to be paying attention to the food, though. Those disciples really need to stop sniffing each other.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/January/2019 @ 7:06 am
Hats off to your mom. A lovely person, indeed.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/January/2019 @ 4:01 pm
Today’s hashtags are:
#Vague
#Mysterious
#CrypticIt’s like subtweeting, but not on Twitter.
OK, enough joking and poking and prodding. You obviously need your privacy. My condolences for the now-dead relationship.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/January/2019 @ 6:45 pm
Too bad about Heidi. Ah, well.
15K is a pretty impressive distance. March on!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/January/2019 @ 10:34 pm
Good luck with this. May it evolve into something truly special.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/January/2019 @ 6:14 pm
Yeah, I don’t know what the deal was. I naively assumed she’d be at the same work station no matter what day it was, but I guess I forgot I was in Korea, where things like consistency and systematicity are low, low priorities. Reality is always slipping out from underneath your feet here. I should’ve known better.
If I go back, the only thing I can think to do is whip out my alien-registration card and tell a staffer, “I’m trying to find the woman who wrote this [my new address] on the back of my ARC.” Maybe that will summon her. Stay tuned!
As for your Lady of the Mountain Path… maybe that wasn’t her husband. Maybe it was her brother…?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/January/2019 @ 6:12 pm
Alas! Well, at least you tried.
I went back to Gangnam District Office three times, last year, to look for my own lady. Never saw her again. I kick myself for not telling her, on the day we met, that she could use my contact info to gimme a call any ol’ time.
I might try to visit the office again. We’ll see. But I want to get back down to 117 kg first.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/January/2019 @ 9:18 pm
Some people engage in drunkblogging, but we come to LTG to see the drunkdogging.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/January/2019 @ 6:19 pm
Great sunset shot. And that “Subic Bay” sign is surreal. I expect to see text when I’m looking at a map of a certain region, but I normally don’t expect that sort of text when I actually arrive at that region.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/January/2019 @ 7:13 pm
Good-looking pot roast. Bad-looking trail. Is that cornbread? Got a recipe you’d care to share? (I mean, I have a recipe of my own, but I’m always open to new ideas and approaches…)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/January/2019 @ 8:25 pm
What’s love got to do with it?
It feels a bit corny to recommend this, but the movie “The Way,” starring Martin Sheen, is actually a great guide to the Camino de Santiago (literally, “the Way of Saint James”—Iago, like the character in Othello, is one Spanish form of “James”). The movie is about a father who loses his son (Emilio Estevez, appearing in flashbacks of memory and in hallucinations); the son had been planning to walk the Camino de Santiago, but died in a storm in the Pyrenees, having only barely begun the Way. The father decides, after having his son cremated in France, to put on his boy’s gear and do the walk his son never had the chance to do. This wasn’t a megahit movie by any means, and as dramas go, it’s relatively quiet, although there are some flare-ups of conflict as the doctor meets various colorful characters along the trail. Despite the movie’s understated tone, the cinematography is wonderful, and you’ll definitely end up with a grand impression of the Camino itself—its twists and turns, and the various rest stops along the way, some of which seem inviting enough, others of which appear rough and spartan.
Europe is shot through with amazing trails. I’d like to hike the GR5, from the Holland coast all the way down to Nice, but that one’s rather intimidating because it goes through several mountain ranges, waaay up and waaay down. The Camino, meanwhile, is globally famous, so if you’re an introvert, you might not appreciate all the people hiking the trail with you—a fact that the Martin Sheen movie doesn’t back away from. It’s a crowded experience, apparently.
Anyway, if Heidi proves to be interested (there’s still hope! she sounds like a good’n), I hope you’ll consider putting the Camino on your list of things to do. At this point, with all the training you’ve had doing the local mountains, I’d say you’re in far better shape than I am to tackle something like the Way. Good luck with both walking and Heidi-ing.
As for this:
…when those feelings arise you owe it to yourself (and the object of your desire) to at a minimum let the person know of your interest. There are worse things than rejection and I would count a missed opportunity for something rare and special among them.
I consider myself rebuked. Heh.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/January/2019 @ 3:32 pm
Depending on how serious you are about this whole navigation thing, you might consider
1. getting contour maps of your local region that are made to a scale fine enough to show things like mountain trails, and/or
2. joining an orienteering club in your area, if such a thing exists.
Whatever you end up doing, I wish you success in finding the path you’re looking for.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/January/2019 @ 7:47 pm
[Please delete my first comment. This comment contains a correction.]
It might or might not be helpful to use GPS navigation on your phone to ensure you’re not going in circles. There’s another, more old-school, more common-sense type of navigation… it has a name, but I can’t remember the name right now. It requires a compass (something you can download onto your phone as well). Basically, you plot out the general direction you need to go in—SE, NW, NE, etc.—then you point yourself in that direction. Before you even take a step, you look ahead and find a landmark that’s within your line of sight and also in the direction you’re walking. You walk until you reach that landmark, then stop. Use your compass to re-find the direction you need to go in, find another landmark, then proceed in that direction.
It’s not a perfect system, obviously: you might see a landmark far ahead, but the path you’re on swings the opposite way. In such cases, it might be wise to find a really far-off landmark, way in the distance, that you set for yourself as your next waypoint. If you veer way off the path, you then stop and look for that far-off landmark, and go toward it on any path that takes you in that direction. If you veer away again, just repeat this procedure. And then, when you finally reach that landmark, just get your bearings, point yourself at your original heading, and set off again in your chosen direction.
Think of this as a navigational algorithm. It’s not perfect, but it’ll eventually get you where you’re going. Having GPS as an aid is just icing on the cake. Assuming you get a cell signal when you’re out in the boonies, of course.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/January/2019 @ 6:29 pm
It might or might not be helpful to use GPS navigation on your phone to ensure you’re not going in circles. There’s another, more old-school, more common-sense type of navigation… it has a name, but I can’t remember the name right now. It requires a compass (something you can download onto your phone as well). Basically, you plot out the general direction you need to go in—SE, NW, NE, etc.—then you point yourself in that direction. Before you even take a step, you look ahead and find a landmark that’s within your line of sight and also in the direction you’re walking. You walk until you reach that landmark, then stop. Use your compass to re-find the direction you need to go in, find another landmark, then proceed in that direction.
It’s not a perfect system, obviously: you might see a landmark far ahead, but the path you’re on swings the opposite way. In such cases, it might be wise to find a really far-off landmark, way in the distance, that you set for yourself as your next waypoint. If you veer way off the path, you then stop and look for that far-off landmark, and go toward it on any path that takes you in that direction. If you veer away again, just repeat this procedure. And then, when you finally reach that landmark, just get your bearings, point yourself at your original heading, and set off again in your chosen direction.
Think of this as a navigational algorithm, It’s not perfect, but it’ll eventually get you where you’re going. Having GPS as an aid is just icing on the cake. Assuming you get a cell signal when you’re out in the boonies, of course.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/January/2019 @ 6:26 pm
Strangely, my RSS feed still hasn’t updated to show this latest post of yours. I came over to your blog on a random impulse, perhaps motivated, like your correspondent, to find out why you hadn’t written in a while. As it turns out, you have written. Keep up the good work; I’m happy to read slice-of-life blogging and learn about the local culture through your eyes.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/January/2019 @ 8:39 pm
All the best for 2019.
Buddy’s posture says, “I don’t know why I still have my balls, but I thank Dog every day that I do!”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/December/2018 @ 5:33 pm
FUD LUK GUD
Happy New Year, if I don’t get a chance to say so on the day itself!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/December/2018 @ 4:24 pm
Merry Christmas and good luck with the Hash.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/December/2018 @ 6:35 pm
You’ve described Marissa, in earlier posts, as a “friend with benefits.” I’ve long been suspicious of such a category of friendship. Back in college, I knew a guy who was “kissing friends” with a beautiful young lady, and even then, I suspected that there was no way you could be in a kissing relationship while still being “just friends.” You have to be pretty emotionally cold to try to have it both ways like that, i.e., being sexually available while also behaving in an “I could take it or leave it” manner. I don’t know… maybe I’m too emotionally undeveloped, and I simply haven’t come to understand the complexities of adult relationships. But I just don’t see how sex and friendship mix, and I get the feeling—given how often your blog posts return to the topic of Marissa (even if only briefly)—that she’s not “just a friend” to you, and that there are still un-worked-out issues regarding her. Again, I have no idea whether I’m just blowing smoke, here. I’m coming at this from the prudish perspective that sex introduces a great deal of rawness and chaotic emotion and mind-altering hormones that can’t be easily boxed into a “friends with benefits” label. Frankly, I find the concept impossible.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/December/2018 @ 1:56 pm
So my blessing was a curse.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/December/2018 @ 3:08 am
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» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/December/2018 @ 10:22 pm