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Post Title: Any Way You Want It
First line should echo the Journey song: That’s the way you need it.
Instead, you wrote:
That’s the way you got it!
Sigh…
Looks to have been a good party, albeit noisy.
At least you put Journey at the end so we can hear the real lyrics.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/August/2025 @ 6:53 pm
The marking sign well marked.. ORANGES Ribbon, PAPERS and trees.
Wow, this entire block of text is going into my Substack. So the trail was marked… how, exactly? With oranges, ribbons, papers (whatever that means), and… trees? That’s a lot of different ways to mark a trail. And using trees themselves as markers! How does that work?
One of the Hares, Always Wet, stayed with us at the back of the pack, acting as a sweeper of sorts. Whenever I couldn’t figure out where the trail was, she kindly pointed me in the right direction.
It’s almost as though they knew the trail was poorly marked. Did anyone get really lost?
As promised, the trail was all downhill. But the early portion was alongside a rocky creek with thick branches and sticker bushes. I’d prefer a hill climb to that!
Were they that desperate to find an original path?
The only falls I experienced.
More impressive than some of the ones you’ve shown!
This week, we gathered at the compound of Hasher Smurf 69
Quite the spread.
With those stickers on the food, I’m guessing this was catered. By “Memey’s”?
Perhaps China will be dissuaded from further escalation. One can only hope.
Keep hoping. I hope so, too, but realistically… I’m not that hopeful.
Oops! I dropped the brownies when I was taking them out of the oven. Oh well, I baked another batch.
Good you had the ingredients for another batch handy. I bake rarely enough that I normally have to buy almost all of my ingredients very time I make something.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2025 @ 5:59 pm
a woman (presumably the Sunday school teacher) approached and started speaking to Swan. This went on for like five minutes or so… The teacher had told Swan that she was concerned about the children’s dental health, and she suggested that we hand out something healthier, like biscuits. Hmm, or the teacher could just tell the kids not to accept candy gifts.
The teacher may be assuming the kids will mindlessly grab whatever you offer, no matter what she tells them to do. You could arrange to give gifts only every other week. Or, yes, you could have her tell the kids not to accept sweets. Even better, she could come over to you and control the kids’ behavior. Of course, if she tells the kids to tell you to bring fruits or something, well, I guess you’re gonna have to bring fruits or something. Skipping the kids entirely seems harsh.
It’s rice planting season again. Damn, that looks like backbreaking work.
Eternal spring, eternal summer. I guess it’s hot and humid even during harvest season. In Korea, as you know, rice planting is a spring thing while rice harvesting is a fall thing. Because Korea has four distinct seasons! as they constantly say.
The Matain River is still flowing, um, rapidly.
Am I missing a joke here? Something to do with rapids? ‘Cause I don’t see no rapids.
Guess what Swan had?
We’re all creatures of habit.
Swan surprised me by pulling another [100-peso] note from her purse and said [to] make it 150 and 100 for the girls.
So at 54-ish pesos to the dollar… that’s not even $3 for the winner, and not even $2 for the loser.
And so another day ended without bitterness.
Except for that teacher/sweets thing.
re: that AI video
I loved all of the misspellings in the transcript, with kare-kare occasionally spelled correctly, then spelled “carry carry.” Plus a lot of other errors. I tried to look up Chef Maya Tanaka Santos, but AI had only this to say:
The provided search results do not confirm the existence of a chef by the name of Maya Tanaka Santos.
While there are mentions of a Maya Tanaka with a background in animation and film, and a famous Japanese chef named Tanaka San, there’s no clear indication of a “chef Maya Tanaka Santos” in the context of the culinary world.
So—a nice AI fabrication. Nothing is real anymore. Still, the words at the end, about opening your mind and trying new things… did that register at all with the pulled-pork, taco, quesadilla, and burger-only crowd? I mean, I can’t seriously preach total open-mindedness since there are things I’d never eat, like Filipino balut or Korean dogani-tang (lots of gristle) or chicken feet, which I had once—never again. It was like chewing on rubber gloves. But I live in Korea, so I eat a lot of Korean food. Being closed-minded about simple things like rice and lumpia just strikes me as weird, and unnecessarily so. But we are large… we contain multitudes. Sigh.
I hope the Hash went well today.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/August/2025 @ 5:29 pm
Nice walk. A good amount of sunlight. Back to the heat and humidity, I guess. Eternal summer would be hell to me, but there’s a reason why old people like to retire in places like Florida and the PI: it keeps the feeling of corpse-coldness at bay!
You’re barking up the wrong tree…
Wow, she’s a cutie. Too bad I’m way too old for her.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2025 @ 10:15 pm
You might want to get familiar with dishes like frittata, which is almost a quiche without the crust. It’s often eggs and cheese and cream and veggies, but you could add sausage, herbs, and spices to make it entertaining. The only problem with fatty dishes, despite their low carbs, is how caloric they are. CICO is not a waste of time for losing WEIGHT; low-carb/keto is a good way to lose FAT. Along with eating less frequently so as not to spike insulin.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2025 @ 10:42 am
I can’t shake the feeling [that] I’m on my last lap
You seem healthier than I am despite your bad habits. Cosmically speaking, it’s not just, but whatever. We’re all wired differently, and besides, I’ve got my own bad habits. How’s your back doing? Your breathing? You’ve never mentioned problems with your knees, your heart(?), or anything else, really. Except maybe occasional incontinence. I had a shart just the other day. Luckily, it was minor, private, and easy to clean up.
We decided to skip the SOB again; it just hasn’t been worth the time lately.
I’d thought it was already kaput.
Regardless, after the second one, I was feeling the effects in a way that was concerning. Regular readers may recall that in my previous attempts to reduce my beer intake, I had some falling-down incidents. Despite my fondness for drinking, I do not like being inebriated. So, I switched back to Zero beer after the second gin drink.
If you don’t like inebriation, why drink at all? There’s tea, coffee, juice, diet soda…
Yeah, I’m thinking that the carbs lie elsewhere. Like in that mashed potato next to your filet. And the carrots. And the gravy.
I know you’ll trot out the whole “old dog can’t learn new tricks” and “It’s just who I am and how I grew up” excuses, but if you cooked more at home, you’d have way more control over what goes into your meals. A lot of keto people do “keto mashed potatoes,” a recipe that uses boiled-then-blitzed cauliflower plus butter, heavy cream, sour cream, chives, garlic powder, salt, black pepper, etc. Not quite as good as potatoes, but a halfway decent substitute. And go nuts with the steak! Beef has almost no carbs. And on keto, the diet’s supposed to be 70-75% fat, anyway (plus 20% protein, and up to 5% carbs). So grill up those ribeyes!
NB: on keto, fat is considered safe (like the fat that’s naturally on meat), BUT if you pair fat with carbs (e.g., banana-cream pie, cookies, etc.), it can become dangerous.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2025 @ 5:46 pm
On that note, I was meaning to ask: was your blog-post title evoking Tolkien? If so, and for what it’s worth, the subtitle of The Hobbit is There and Back Again, with no extra “Then.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2025 @ 5:22 pm
I’m not a big purveyor of YouTube videos
purvey = to sell or distribute (e.g., a purveyor of fake Nikes)
Are you saying you’re a seller/distributor of YouTube videos? Or was the word you were looking for consumer?
I’m not sure that showing one or two embedded YouTube vids on your daily blog posts is enough to make you a purveyor.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2025 @ 12:51 pm
So I watched the video about Koreans moving to the PI. Totally AI-generated, with lots of nonsense Korean and Chinese (being passed off as Korean in certain scenes), plus a whole slew of fake, AI-generated people and visuals. AI has come a long way in a short time, but it’s still relatively stupid and easy to suss out. The only thing that made sense was the script read by an AI voice. I guess a human might have written the script, but I bet that even those words were AI-generated. Everything is fake now.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2025 @ 3:29 am
We walked the length of the beach and back and saw fewer than ten people total.
The dark sand comes from eroded volcanic rock, says Google AI.
A homemade meat pie. Her deceased former boyfriend was an English chap.
What kind of pie was it, specifically? The English (and Irish, and Scots, and Aussies, and Kiwis) have many meat/savory pies. Shepherd’s pie (with lamb), cottage pie (with beef), steak-and-kidney pie (which I tried and failed to make one time), steak-and-Guinness pie, Scotch pie, and all sorts of other savory pies. Branching out from pies, there are pasties (pronounced “PASS-teez,” not “PASTE-eez,” as I discovered after mispronouncing the dish’s name in front of a British coworker around 2006), rolls, and all sorts of other bread-and-meat combinations. Very good, rib-sticking fare. English food gets a bad rap, especially from people who don’t know pub culture. Which means you might be an exception, seeing as you’re a pub creature familiar with pub grub. Do you like a good bangers and mash?
There were several guys in the bar when we arrived, watching footie, or what I call soccer, me being American and all.
Here’s the interesting thing about how “American” the expression “soccer” really is (and I’ve talked about this on my blog: look up “association football” in my blog’s search window). The original name for the sport was “association football.” The “-soci-” in “association” went from “socky/socca” to “socker” to “soccer.” So “soccer” is, in fact, a proper British term for the sport, and besides, it’s not just America that uses the label: Canada does, too, and so does Australia. South Africa, too, I think. “Football” is, of course, the term used in various forms all over the world (el futból, le football, Fußball, etc.), but never let anyone tell you “soccer” is merely an “American” term. It’s more originally British than “football” is. I can’t speak for other countries, but Americans use “soccer” to distinguish it from American football, which Americans simply call “football” despite the fact that the ball is mostly carried about the field in one’s hands and only rarely kicked (punting). If anything, it’s more often thrown (passing). See the etymology info here for more.
Why are Koreans moving to the Philippines? Spoiler alert: for the same reasons the rest of us did.
At least the chick in the thumbnail is a cutie. Even if she might just be AI.
I am considering reducing the third one somewhat to help achieve that goal.
Fat chance. I’ll believe it when I see it. Reducing “somewhat” means… what? Ten beers instead of eleven? And if the San Mig Zeros have so few carbs, as you state, is it possible the problem lies elsewhere? Maybe it ain’t the beer. Maybe it’s the fish and chips, the burgers, the dessert pies, the pulled-pork sandwiches, etc.
Don’t read too much into that, I’ll still be visiting the bars. I may just try the gin and soda water thing again.
Doesn’t that often end up with you flat on your back and yesterday being a blur?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2025 @ 12:56 am
[Sigh… second attempt. Feel free to delete the first. Caught a stupid typo.]
Thanks for writing “Kevin,” not “Kev.” But if you really, really prefer short forms, “K” is fine. I do it in my email correspondence all the time. It’s OK as a written form; no one ever verbally calls me “K.” I wouldn’t like that, anyway.
Forgetting but not forgiving seems impossible. My mother’s big sister has gone senile as she approaches 90; she used to be a combative, unpleasant woman, and she became more so during Mom’s brain cancer. Now, she can’t even remember that Mom’s dead, and she lights up with joy to see her relatives; my brother David visited her two or three years ago, and she asked how Mom was doing, all bitterness forgotten. Must be nice.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/August/2025 @ 4:05 pm
So, that provided the incentive to re-initiate the Wednesday tradition of patronizing seldom-visited bars.
I didn’t realize that this tradition had already gone defunct.
Swan commented on how much she enjoys the friendly vibe here and said we should make it a weekly event. I concurred.
We should place bets on what happens if the girls start to ignore your table, the bar plays the wrong music, or the place runs out of wine!
The waters of Subic Bay.
And the sky is still moody.
The last time we visited was several weeks ago, and we didn’t stay long because our favorite waitress wasn’t working and the music sucked. Sheryl was back last night, and so was the classic rock we enjoy.
See what I mean? Bad music = no John.
Needless to say, I won’t be returning to Cloud 69 and their evil ways in the future.
Oh, I don’t know. The flip side of the “no John” thing is how forgiving you are, even if the forgiveness takes a while. In a small town, you either learn to forgive each other, or you go crazy and kill each other.
Say hey to Easter Mountain’s ass for me.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/July/2025 @ 8:26 pm
I delete my memes (from my phone) after I post them online. It doesn’t always prevent repetition, but it minimizes the number of senior moments.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/July/2025 @ 5:53 pm
Try it and see. It will cure what ails you. Or maybe result in death.
Didn’t you just post this meme?
Back problems can also be a sign of a weak core. Look up core exercises on YouTube, especially the so-called “McGill Big 3,” which I’ve mentioned before.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/July/2025 @ 11:55 pm
A nice, if wet, walk. I hope you find out what’s up with your back and get decent treatment from Dr. Jo. (I’m gonna guess your back is complaining about the gut that’s impending forward and downward. Not that I have any room to talk lately.)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/July/2025 @ 10:13 pm
Thanks for subscribing to my Shopify shop! I hope to have some worthy items to buy over the next few months! There’s going to be nothing more for a while, but assuming I last long enough, you’ll start to see more and more items in the store window. Thanks again.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/July/2025 @ 1:06 pm
Visiting the seemingly always empty John’s place for dinner.
Is your impression that it’s fading away, going downhill?
And the rain continues. Just as the heat and humidity continue here. Can’t wait for fall.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/July/2025 @ 7:04 pm
As I’m wont to say, there’s freedom in wet shoes; so put ’em on and hit the road.
I guess if the walks are shorter than 10K, then you don’t have to worry about blisters. That was my downfall last year.
I think they missed the candy girl.
“Yo, when do you get out of the joint?”
Brothers from a different mother?
Wow, that’s pretty close to a Freddie look!
One of the better days I’ve enjoyed recently here in paradise.
Actually, Freddie Mercury reminds me more of a young Vernon Wells. You guys should film, edit, and publish a blow-by-blow re-creation of the final fight in Commando.
Here’s how we roll…. After all, we will be gone for 3 days and 2 nights!
To think I spend a month every year walking across Korea with only a small pack on my back!
I guess I got lucky.
In these toons, I can never tell who is texting whom. The speech balloons’ tails are pointing at the phones, meaning the utterance is coming out of the phone. So in the first frame, the phone (i.e., the guy) is telling the girl what the guy is saying, right? So it’s the guy who’s saying, “I gave you everything.” Which means it’s the girl who’s replying, “I know. I’m on 7 antibiotics.” I guess the joke works either way.
Enjoy the feeding and dinner.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/July/2025 @ 7:11 pm
Well, the guy was right: he couldn’t spell apoc-A-lypse.
That video about being in the PI too long, composed by AI (hence the off-topic images), was way too dramatic. Too much purple prose. Whoever wrote the script was aiming for comedy, not realism.
I was sure your music video of the day was going to be “Here Comes the Rain Again” by Annie Lennox. Alas.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/July/2025 @ 10:02 pm
That’s a huge difference and one that would appeal to me if I weren’t a lost soul beyond redemption.
More Christian language! And if you’re a lost soul beyond redemption, who’s redeeming or not redeeming you, and what makes you think you’re getting a do-over life? You’re mixing religious metaphors here. Redemption is a one-time thing from one cosmology (Christian); a do-over life is more Indian-sounding (Hinduism/Buddhism/Jainism) even if, as I’ve mentioned before, the Indian do-over life doesn’t include porting over the wisdom from your previous life. Nope: if you start over, you start over fresh and unwise. Only after you gain enlightenment can you see your past lives. By that point, of course, the learning is useless because you’re already enlightened.
Maybe look into Sikhism. The Sikhs believe in both God and reincarnation. Or look into Plato’s (and other ancient Greeks’) theories on reincarnation. I see that there are Sikh gurdwaras in the PI (Cebu, Manila). Go talk to those people if you want. It’ll be an interesting conversation if nothing else. And if my experience at a gurdwara in Washington State is any indication, they’ll welcome you, feed you, and not require you to join their community. Fascinating people.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/July/2025 @ 4:58 pm
As a non-believer in any of the doctrines, it strikes me as an intellectual surrender to indoctrination.
[NB: dangling modifier! “As a nonbeliever… it…” So “it” is the nonbeliever?]
What’s funny is that I sense your former brand of Christianity still at work in you. Your style of Protestantism (Foursquare/Baptist, right?) is very black-and-white in nature, and like a lot of exclusivistic, fundie forms of Christianity, it sees other paths as superstitious and/or even something to be feared. So a lot of Christians from your branch (or bough) of Christianity tend to view everything around them as forms of idolatry, doors to temptation, or opportunities to fall. That’s what I hear when I read “indoctrination.” Caution, circumspection, chariness.
The Buddha’s teachings are primarily empirical in nature: observe the world, observe your mind, and find out for yourself. Buddhism also acknowledges that a medicine cabinet can’t have only one single medicine to treat all ills, so a seeker of truth will need to explore different paths, just as people with different ailments need different medicines. As one monk said: if seated meditation doesn’t agree with you, try walking meditation. Ideally, in something like Zen Buddhism, pretty much everything you do can be an opportunity for mindfulness and depth of experience, even pushing out a big one while on the pot.
Now Buddhism as an organized religion might be a different story. Organized religions, which have evolved and calcified over centuries, contain all of the sociological ills found in any big organization: an us/them mentality, a sense of orthodox/heterodox, in-group/out-group dynamics, a need to self-perpetuate and self-protect, etc. That’s the indoctrination you’re talking about. But unlike Christianity, which is a propositional belief system, philosophical Buddhism (not magico-religious Buddhism) is about observation, reason, and experience. It’s remarkably close to a scientific-empiricist perspective: what works? What doesn’t work? Strip away the metaphysical nonsense, and you’re left with what the ancient Greeks would have called phronesis, or practical wisdom.
So when it comes to other religions, or to religion in general, I wouldn’t be too quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But yes, I understand your chariness about indoctrination, and I share your sentiment to some degree: it’s one reason why I can’t go back to being a churchy Presbyterian or turn into a precepts-taking lay Buddhist. I appreciate the ideas I find in these traditions, but not necessarily the rituals and ceremonies and specific beliefs. At the same time, I can safely say that your church (mine too, for that matter) isn’t a cult. A cult would never have let you walk away because cults don’t respect your freedom. Cults want your full and focused commitment, which often includes giving away all of your possessions and worshipping only the cult leader, who usually sees himself as some divine herald or as an incarnation of God (who is, conveniently, free to be sexually predatory with the females in his flock). So your former church might have had its indoctrinating side, but most large organizations have a set of tenets; that’s only to be expected.
It’s been observed, over and over again, that even atheistic Americans are to some degree in thrall to ambient Christianity, which still informs the American value system even today. Think about how Americans of all stripes love a comeback story. Well, that derives from the sense of newness that comes from the Easter story of the resurrection. Death, new life. Failure, then success. A loss, then a win. The Rocky movies (except maybe for the first) can mostly be seen as following the resurrection template. Or consider how Americans value individualism, truth, freedom, family, and work. All of that is biblical (look at individualism, for example: we don’t collectively go to heaven or hell), and it informs American social values. We’re not even aware, most of the time, of how religious forces shape our lives and our worldviews.
Anyway, I think what set this off was your implication that Buddhism is an animal like Christianity when in fact it’s much more about your own experience and not about merely believing in a core set of propositions (Christ died for our sins, etc.).
So, yes: I see your former church still at work in you, even as you continue to rebel against it. It’s left its mark deep within you. And aren’t you often called John Mark?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/July/2025 @ 9:51 pm
Your fish & chips look to be the size of checkers.
We were hit really hard last night–lots of wind accompanied by heavy rains.
Is this different systems sweeping through, or is it just one system that refuses to leave? I haven’t been following the weather in your part of the world.
re: Doseonsa
So that’s 道詵寺 in Chinese. It’s named after a monk with the dharma name of 道詵/도선/Do-seon (lit. “Tao-speak,” i.e., one who tells of the Way).
Even though “Tao” is not a Buddhist notion, East Asian Buddhism is highly syncretistic, so it has concepts from Taoism woven into it. For example, when the notion of “bodhi” (enlightenment) came to China from India, it got rendered as seong-do/성도/成道 (“attaining the Way”).
Translations like these weren’t a deliberate attempt to force Taoism into Buddhism; the Indian monks (like Kumarajiva) who learned Chinese and spread the dharma into China were trying to explain Buddhist concepts through the local vernacular. This can be a dangerous way to export or market a religion because of the risk that people will miss your essential point, but as a practical matter, you can’t expect a religion to settle in a new country/culture unless you convey its ideas in the local idiom. Even the Catholic Church eventually recognized this reality during Vatican II (1962-65), when the attendees agreed henceforth to hold masses in the local language instead of insisting on using Latin, a dead language that natives in their respective countries didn’t understand.
Islam is almost as widespread as Christianity these days, and its texts are generally taught in Arabic even though the locals might not be Arabic speakers (e.g., Afghans who speak Pashto, Dari, or Urdu). Arabic is considered God’s default language, even though he speaks all languages, so the truest Qur’an is the version written in Arabic. And if you’re in a madrassa but you don’t understand Arabic, that’s okay because there’s power inherent in the recitation of the holy words (Hindus believe this, too).
Well, enjoy the rain. I hope it brings a bit of coolness with it.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/July/2025 @ 2:09 am
[Second attempt. Please delete previous comment.]
New tricks with the camera are inconsistent with my status as an old dog.
I get that it’s easier to be lazy than to learn something new, but if you have an Android, I don’t think changing the shutter speed is that difficult. It takes only a half-calorie of energy. Here: I’ll do your work for you and spell it out.
1. Turn on your camera.
2. At the bottom of the camera’s screen, look on the menu for a clickable link or button that says “More.” Click it.
3. Another menu pops up. Look for “Pro.” Click that.
4. At the bottom of the screen, there’s a new menu that you can slide with your finger. Find the link/button that says “Speed.” (It may already show what your current shutter speed is.) Tap it. To photograph raindrops, select a faster shutter speed than you’re currently at. If you’re already at 1/250 (i.e., 1/250 of a second), for example, adjust the speed to something like 1/1000 or 1/1500 for a faster shutter. Try snapping some raindrop shots. If the image is still too blurry, adjust the shutter to a faster speed (1/2000, 1/10,000). If the snapped image is too dark, use your camera tools to adjust the pic’s brightness. Don’t adjust too far, or it’ll make the image too fuzzy/grainy.Good luck! Practice the faster shutter speed by having Swan spit a fountain of water out of her mouth while you photograph the water and/or her. Do it in bright light if possible, but if it’s a cloudy day, adjust the image’s brightness as I mentioned above. I might try some raindrop photography myself. But it hasn’t been windy enough, lately, for sideways raindrops.
While you wait, there’s this from two years ago.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/July/2025 @ 2:23 pm
She had gone to her flooded family compound
How flooded is flooded? Do they need more help than just food?
Mentioned it to an expat in the bar that night, and he laughed. “Hope you have a boat!”
But now that you’re a seasoned veteran of the area, you know all the high and low points, I’d guess.
A bad time to be setting up a carnival.
All sorts of safety-related alarms going off in my head.
Confirmed: Jesus wasn’t among us.
I don’t even know why you bother with umbrellas.
A temporary escape.
Not slick with algae, I hope.
This place floods every year. That’s probably why it’s abandoned.
What genius decided to build there?
I had planned to climb the stairs to BarCelona but discovered it is now closed. The sign said “temporary,” but my sources tell me otherwise. There’s just not enough customers to go around these days.
The retirement community is shrinking. And I guess the tourists are staying away, too.
Reekay reveals the hard truth about love, friendship, and betrayal.
When he talks about women, he’s basically talking about a form of the sunk-cost fallacy and how to avoid it.
It was actually coming down sideways, but my photography skills were insufficient to capture that view.
If you can adjust your shutter speed, you might catch the droplets. Make it faster. The downside is that you won’t let in as much light.
Here’s a belated song in honor of the passing of Ozzie Osborne.
The man’s been effectively dead for decades. His body finally caught up to his soul. I gave Ozzie my usual ululate! tribute.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/July/2025 @ 5:27 pm
You’re on top of a hill, right? Good place to be during a monsoon. Geography is destiny.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/July/2025 @ 8:16 pm
I don’t envy you a 30-something-K trek in all of that heat and humidity.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/July/2025 @ 11:49 am
Maybe get in good with this Texan: his future place can be the starting point in San Narciso for your over-30K walk.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/July/2025 @ 6:16 pm
Glad to know you got your water back. Until next time, anyway.
Yeah, that whole Coldplay-meme thing was new to me until I read up on the original scandal. I’d say “better luck next time,” but we’re not even in the “next time” phase yet: things are still falling apart for this guy right now. He just resigned from the company he co-founded. D’oh! And he now joins the ranks of Charles and Camilla, Arnold and that ugly housekeeper, Hugh Grant and Divine Brown, etc.—men who feed at the ugly trough ’cause that’s where the available pussy is.
I’d wish for dry weather for you, but in the PI, dry weather just means a return to hot/humid misery.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/July/2025 @ 8:06 pm
Greg speaks wisdom, John. (About the tank stuff. As for his gentleman’s quarrel with Gary, who knows?) If your place’s roof is up to code for such a structure, a tank (with a filtration system!) sounds like a great idea, especially if you’re in that building for the long haul. Does the PI have any California-like laws against collecting and storing your own water? Consult the AI god and find out. Either that, or stock up on tons of bottled water. And buy a LifeStraw just to be safe. Or do what they did in Old Europe and just drink beer—oh, wait. You already do that.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/July/2025 @ 2:11 am
«« Back To Stats PageIt’s been rainy here as well. My sympathies.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/July/2025 @ 10:14 pm