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Exciting times ahead. Such a massive transition will indeed be a huge adventure. Rock and roll!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/April/2017 @ 11:29 pm
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» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/April/2017 @ 11:36 pm
One of my favorite French-language vids:
Allez, on pousse! (All right, we’re pushing!)
And I just saw this on “the Slingshot Channel” on YouTube:
In-bowl Toilet CamThe first vid makes up for the lack of grossness in the second vid.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/April/2017 @ 11:35 pm
Heh
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/April/2017 @ 12:21 pm
Curtis,
I’ve consulted My Fitness Pal for calorie counts. It does indeed have a surprisingly comprehensive library of food, including Korean food—often specifying a brand name (like Ottogi, etc.). I once tried Map My Ride, but had bad luck with it. I suppose one’s mileage may vary. All in all, I’m OK with the Samsung pedometer I have; it serves my admittedly limited needs.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/March/2017 @ 8:40 pm
John,
About 75% of my walk gets done all at once, but the remaining 25% is done in bits and pieces earlier in the day: I take three mini-walks per day with my coworker during business hours. Each of those walks is good for about 1200 steps. Add another 1200-ish steps for the walking I do to get to work, and that’s nearly 5000 steps before I even set out on my big walk in the evening.
Starting maybe next week, I have to do my old, long route: the 33-staircase route along the Yangjae creek that amounts to around five hours’ schlepping. I need to be up around 5AM and on the road by 5:30. I start work late and end late in the day, so getting back home around 10:30AM, then showering and going to work, won’t be a problem. Those walks will bump my step count back over the 30K-step mark. It’s been a while since I walked that long and far, but a man’s gotta practice if he’s gonna do 600 kilometers.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/March/2017 @ 1:52 pm
Sorry to hear about the bad day(s), but congrats on a good walk. I did 21K steps tonight; will soon be lengthening my walks as my departure date gets closer.
I like all the numbers on your pedometer’s readout except for the calories. Alas, I have to call BS on over 4000 calories burned. An average person normally burns about 100 calories per mile walked, plus or minus 20 calories (see here). I certainly believe that you walked 12.3 miles because I’ve done that sort of walk myself, but I’d put your caloric expenditure at around 1200-1300 calories, tops.
Unless your pedometer is giving you a gross daily figure…? That might actually make sense: if you’re burning close to 3000 calories per day as part of your basal metabolic rate, a total of 4000+ calories would indicate over a thousand calories specifically burned through exercise. Is there a way to check on how your pedometer is measuring caloric burn?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/March/2017 @ 11:51 pm
“He said the lung nodule was 3 mm in size and could be from previous damage or could be a precursor to lung cancer. So yeah, I’ll get that checked next year for sure.”
I hope you can find equally good medical facilities in the Philippines.
The good news is that, if the doc thought this were full-blown cancer, he’d never tell you to wait a year to get checked up. He’s letting you keep the x-ray images of the nodule, yes?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/March/2017 @ 10:01 pm
A belated Happy Saint Pat’s to you. Congrats on the 18K+ steps.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/March/2017 @ 1:23 am
Good luck at the doc’s! May you have only good news.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/March/2017 @ 10:28 am
Good hike, good meals, good times.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/March/2017 @ 1:24 am
Welcome back. I imagine this departure is feeling realer and realer.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/March/2017 @ 1:28 am
That first photo looks amazing. If I had the money (and the inclination to live somewhere hot and humid), I’d consider grabbing that property myself.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/February/2017 @ 3:47 am
L’embarras du choix, as the French say: the burden of choice. If a man’s home is his castle, may you choose the fortress that works best for you.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/February/2017 @ 9:49 pm
SojuHoncho has a point. Better stick to military hospitals…at least until Duterte boots out our troops.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/February/2017 @ 12:26 pm
“He actually sat down with me and we spent 30 minutes talking about where I go from here (health wise). Now, Dr. Yoo may be hilarious, but damn, he wasted a lot of my time. This Army Captain treating me did more in one visit than I’ve accomplished in multiple trips to Soonchunhwang.”
Korean. Health care. Sucks.
If I’m ever in dire need of some radical procedure, I’d rather fly back to the States and pay full price than subject myself to this country’s incompetence. Health care may be cheap here, but you get what you pay for.
Anyway, glad to hear you’re doing so much better.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/February/2017 @ 3:52 am
Why, why, why do you drag yourself through the fire like this? You must give the wounds a chance to heal, brother—heal!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/February/2017 @ 3:54 pm
“Young Bum” is probably a guy’s name, but I’ll be thinking about the cute Korean cashier I interacted with at High Street Market yesterday. Her young bum was quite delicious (-looking).
COPD, eh? Worse than pneumonia, and those other medical geniuses didn’t catch it. See why I’m paranoid about Korean health care?
Well, at least your demon now has a name, and as we religious-studies folks know, naming a demon gives you power over it. Let the exorcism begin! I’ll be sending you a card on your eighty-fourth birthday, I’m sure.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/February/2017 @ 8:12 pm
Get yourself checked out by SOMEbody, man. And happy birthday to Little Bro.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/February/2017 @ 12:51 am
Quite a life, John! At least the girls got to have a day away from their troubles. And it was great of you to pay for someone’s education. I tip my hat to you.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/February/2017 @ 9:38 pm
Over 7000 steps an hour is fast walking, indeed. I’ll never reach that speed. Congrats on feeling better!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/January/2017 @ 10:46 pm
Feeling any better?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/January/2017 @ 4:13 pm
Sorry—”Tabom,” not “Ta Bom.” Either way, it’s da bomb.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/January/2017 @ 11:09 pm
You had asked, last night, about the prospects for Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election, and I’d told you that, so far, François Fillon, the moderate Republican (and prime minister under Sarkozy), was in front. Apparently, that news is out of date (assuming, as always, that polls can be trusted). If Le Pen does win, we could be looking at a Frexit, and that’s going to throw the EU’s economy into chaos because it’ll only be Germany left at the wheel of a rapidly disintegrating ship—left to deal with lazy, warm-weather, no-work-ethic siesta cultures like Greece et al.
If my off-the-cuff diagnosis of pneumonia turns out to the right, you owe me a meat-filled dinner at Ta Bom.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/January/2017 @ 11:06 pm
“Korea for me has become a land of broken dreams and broken promises.”
Sorry to hear that, but at the same time, you may end up experiencing that same gravitational pull that has brought so many Korea-weary expats right back to Korea after some time away (months or even years). This country sucks you in.
Or, hey: maybe it just sucks.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/January/2017 @ 11:49 pm
“O to be young, and to feel love’s keen sting.”
—Michael Gambon’s Albus Dumbledore, sarcastically, in the movie version of “Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince”» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/January/2017 @ 8:14 pm
Looks moist, tender, and delicious.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/January/2017 @ 12:01 pm
…and September will be here before you know it. Wow.
Congrats on restarting the walking. Keep up the good work.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/January/2017 @ 12:09 pm
Safe travels with minimal pain. Happy New Year.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/December/2016 @ 12:17 am
«« Back To Stats PageMight want to rule out the possibility of sciatica. This all sounds gloriously neurological to me. (Of course, any pain you feel—and that’s all pain—is inevitably neurological!)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/December/2016 @ 3:59 am