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All this talk of falls makes me pine for the Giessbach Falls (Giessbachfälle) in Switzerland. I encountered those falls while hiking around Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) in 1989 with classmates, and in 1991 (with my brother David).
Helen rafted across on some bamboo poles that were floating nearby.
So she made use of a fallen bridge, did she?
Ed swam across
I guess you guys never worry about weird water-amoebas crawling into your brain, eh? Nice to know the water’s clean.
Friendly locals, as usual
The one local appears to be in “Hey, baby” mode.
I’m curious about the story behind this massive building that was abandoned prior to completion many years ago. That’s a lot of wasted money!
If you have an app that allows you to record your GPS coordinates (maybe Google Maps? I’ve never checked), you can put a “map pin” or geotag on those coordinates, then perhaps look up the building and its history later. You can also type “identify building with image” into Google and learn a few ways to suss out local structures.
Nice to meet you, Stan
Just for a brief fraction of a second, I thought you’d finally met Satan.
I was reminded that yesterday was the thirteenth anniversary of my marriage to Jee Yeun.
One day, you’ll finally see your way clear to getting a divorce so you never have to have that, “Swan, technically, I’m married” conversation. The longer you delay, the worse it’s gonna be.
Nine years ago[,] I had a meet-up
Time flies. Hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade. I’ve only gotten older and uglier since then.
Finding a place to park was a bitch, and for some reason, they had blocked off Gothard street with a single barrier saying “road closed”.
Spot the error that’s not an error in British English!
Well, it looks to have been a good walk and, I guess, a good SOB event. I’d never attend one of those, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/April/2024 @ 7:11 pm
A journey that ended in Alaska
When Swan arrived we moved out to the rooftop
And she’s with a guy! Did you slap him with your armored gauntlet and issue a manly challenge?
Me and my gal
I hope we can see more of this normal smile instead of that weird, puffy-lipped nonsense that creeps into so many selfies.
The surgery went well, and he had high praise for the newly reopened hospital in Barretto. I was especially glad to hear that. Hopefully, there will be no more trips to Baypointe, and while I don’t ever want to need an emergency room nearby, I’m glad we have one.
Good news on both the Jerry front and the hospital front.
re: Riker asks for a little pussy
Well, if the Enterprise’s replicators can replicate a cat, they can also replicate a Fleshlight. Let Riker seduce that.
re: Chekov
A lot of people got after actor Walter Koenig for his version of a “Russian” accent, turning his “V”s into “W”s (e.g., “nuclear wessels” in Star Trek IV). In reality, Russian has plenty of “V” sounds, from “Soviet” to “Ivan.” Koenig later insisted he’d modeled his accent off his father’s Russian accent (I’ve also heard “Ukrainian relative”), so I don’t know what’s going on. Russia’s a huge country, of course, so there probably isn’t just one “Russian accent” any more than there’s just one “American accent.” And think of the Spanish Me llamo (“My name is”) which, depending on the dialect, can be pronounced “mey-YAH-moh” or “mey-JAH-moh.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/April/2024 @ 6:37 pm
our out-of-town hike in Cawag
Sounds like a place in Ireland or Scotland.
Up we go
Another one of them steep-ass hills. Yeesh. I’d have to switchback up that.
A shady grove
On the DC Metro’s Red Line, there’s a stop called “Shady Grove.” It’s the northwestern terminus.
Nice to see you again, Onelia!
She has the benevolent look of a gentle mountain spirit. Nothing like the austere mountain spirits (山神/sanshin/산신) here in Korea.
The[n] I paid a visit to It Doesn’t Matter. I had a couple more there, and then I decided to give Roadhouse a try. I guess I just wasn’t feeling it, so I caught a trike for home.
I’m not clear on whether you actually visited Roadhouse. You decided to give it a try… but you weren’t feeling it, so you went home? Or you got to Roadhouse, didn’t dig the vibe, then went home?
re: Build Back Better
I’ve never been convinced that that’s grammatical. If, say, a school or a temple were to burn down here, I doubt I’d say the community would “build it back.” More likely, I’d say they’d “build it back up.” I can understand leaving the “up” out of the slogan, though, because it would be less alliterative and thus less catchy. But it still sounds vaguely illiterate to me.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/April/2024 @ 6:45 pm
I don’t have a clue regarding the “giant lanterns.”
I see that they’re a local basketball team.
my buddy Chris and his gal Shie
Is Shie pronounced “shee,” “shy,” “shee-ey,” or something else?
Sorry to hear about the “cursed” evening. Maybe God is telling you to stop bar-hopping. And sorry to hear about the worse-than-usual heat, but this is, after all, what you signed up for. Enjoy!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/April/2024 @ 5:58 pm
Nice pics of another impossibly steep-looking walk.
re: farting while sleeping
A human fart is actually a metafart: it’s the accumulated gaseous emissions of the billions of bacteria at work in the intestines. They fart; the gas builds up; the gas eventually comes out. And I guess that only gets worse as people get older.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/April/2024 @ 7:35 pm
Most people seemed to get it. One person asked how many girlfriends I have. I wondered where that came from until I re-read my post and caught the ambiguity of “I can’t remember which one.”
Multiple girlfriends was my first thought, too. That error is called an “ambiguous pronoun reference.”
Good luck with the day’s Hash.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/April/2024 @ 4:32 pm
A skilled craftsman at work
I might want to hang out with that guy. That’s awesome.
More evidence that signs don’t work
It’s like in the US, when you see piles of trash around “No littering!” signs, or in Korea, when you see hundreds of cigarette butts around “No smoking!” signs.
Across the highway to a new neighborhood
It occurs to me that I’ve heard nightmare stories coming out of India, where Good-Samaritan behavior can get you mobbed by the village the moment people hear you’re distributing goodies or coins or whatever.
This has been a dead Easter for me. I’m still unsure about having some hair of the dog that bit me, but I will probably have a couple with dinner. We’ll see how I feel later.
The solution to governmental problems is more government, and by the same token, the solution to alcohol-related problems is… more alcohol! Some of us are just monkeys lolling about on fermented fruit, I guess.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/March/2024 @ 5:48 pm
Sure enough, it looks like Jim is thinking about taking the quick way down.
Jim’s right arm is huge.
Nice pics of the trail, the beach, the food, and the bloody self-flagellators.
My buddy Tom took a look at your blog at dinner this evening when I whipped my phone out. He’s apparently been at the top of Black Rock himself, and he saw lots of other things, in your photos, that were familiar to him.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/March/2024 @ 11:59 pm
Did Grammarly understand that you were addressing November directly? Probably not, so there’s the problem. And whether it’s “Hurry, November” or “Hurry up, November,” you still need the vocative comma.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/March/2024 @ 10:52 pm
Yeah, since you’re addressing the month of November directly, you need what’s called a vocative comma. Such commas work like this:
Yes, sir. Yes, ma’am.
I’m sorry, Dave.
Fred, you’re one of a kind.Or consider the classic vocative-comma poster, which says:
Let’s eat Grandpa!
Let’s eat, Grandpa!
Commas save lives!So: “Hurry up November,” without the vocative comma, sounds as if you’re telling others to somehow accelerate the arrival of November. “Hurry up, November!” means you’re addressing November directly, enjoining it to come quickly.
All they say on Battlestar Galactica, “All of this has happened before and will happen again.”
Also: see this post.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/March/2024 @ 2:26 pm
Swan is still doing her meat distributor business. She takes orders, the wholesaler delivers the goods (from Angeles, I think), and then she goes around town making deliveries.
Is she still also working at that bar? How’s business?
Nobody doesn’t better than you, Joe!
I assume the “doesn’t” is on purpose. If so, I’ve never seen that joke before.
Hurry November!
What’s missing?
Well, enjoy all that lovely heat. Better you than me. Although Korea’s time is coming. Man, fuck summer.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/March/2024 @ 7:16 pm
She did say we should start earlier in the morning when it is not so hot.
Walking in the early morning is its own reward. Just be careful on those mountain trails when the light is low.
re: Fitbit
Over 3,000 calories for 6K of walking seems a bit excessive. But I think you mentioned that the caloric measurement was for the whole day, yes?
Our destination awaits
That slope just gets steeper and steeper as you approach the summit, doesn’t it?
Inday and Swan push on while Scott takes a needed break.
That part looks really steep. Do you think the slope angle got as far as 45 degrees?
It got a little rocky in places
That looks like 45 degrees for sure. I guess you ascend by switchbacking…?
The Rite Spot On The Roof isn’t so right in the rain. I thought the cover would be enough, but with the wind blowing the rain sideways, not so much.
You might have to shell out for some tarp-like “walls.”
And then a muted sunset as the storm raged on
Looks as if you wandered into the desert scene in “Blade Runner 2049.”
Anyway, I guess you could say we got rode hard and put up wet. Still, I’m happy for the experience.
Hard and wet is about all you can ask for in this life.
If I recall correctly, those flowers are gaenalee.
I think gaenari are forsythias.
Anyway, life is good. I’m glad to be feeling healthy again. Haven’t even needed my nebulizer lately.
Do you think the new meds helped you get past whatever that earlier problem was, or are you still on the meds?
Anyway, it seems to have been a good, vigorous hike.
Question: do all the locals call that mountain “Easter Mountain”? If they call it that, why doesn’t it have a path with, say, the Stations of the Cross on it? Or at least one shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin? Just curious.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/March/2024 @ 6:35 pm
First and foremost, my sympathies to Jerry. The humerus, eh? So at a guess, he landed on his side and broke his arm, which was under his body at the moment of impact. That sucks; the humerus is a large bone. I can’t imagine the pain. And he really injured nothing else? Lucky fellow.
Second: the grammar jokes. There’s only one that I disagree with: the one about the subjunctive mood.
The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
That’s actually an if-conditional sentence, and there shouldn’t be a comma. Specifically, this is what is called “third conditional”: past perfect (had known), conditional past (would have walked). There’s no “if” because “had it” is inverted word order, but the “if” is implied.
If the tarantula had been hungry, it would have eaten the cricket.
Had the tarantula been hungry, it would have eaten the cricket. (inverted)For more on the subjunctive, see here. Examples of the subjunctive mood:
It’s important that you be here by five.
We suggest that she use caution.
…for fear that he leave too soon.As for what “third conditional” means: it refers to the third of three conditional-sentence scenarios, each with its own set of tenses.
1st conditional: (if) present → present/future (probable event)
If Batman comes tonight, he’ll regret it.
If it rains, I’ll grab my umbrella.2nd conditional: (if) past → conditional (imaginary/unreal event/situation)
If I were king, I would hold orgies every Tuesday.
If your mom had testicles, she’d be your dad.3rd conditional: (if) past perfect → conditional past (alternate past)
If you hadn’t blasted diarrhea everywhere, the sex would’ve been far less entertaining.Also of interest:
A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
They missed a chance to write “for all intensive purposes.” Aside from that, could you rewrite the sentence without malapropisms?
Then there’s this:
Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
Chiasmus is an interesting one. You pair up two phrases or turns of phrase that are something like mirror images of each other to make a point.
We won’t have to look for work, and it won’t have to look for us.
Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure. (Byron)
Eat to live; live to eat.
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. (Whitman)re: Redneck Love Poem
It’s all about the inbreds. Least there warn’t nobody wit’ six fangers.
re: the “I don’t like sand” meme
That’s the best Anakin/Padmé meme I’ve seen so far! Love it.
There is a rooster farm across the river from me, and I hear them screeching every morning. Oddly enough, unlike dog barking, I’m used to it now; it is just background noise that doesn’t bother me much.
I guess that’s better than the screaming of the lambs. Oh, and: “rooster farm” uses “rooster” as an adjective modifying “farm,” so you can’t say “they” as a pronoun to replace “rooster.” Possible rewrite:
There is a rooster farm across the river from me, and I hear the birds screeching every morning.
I look forward to reading about the Easter Mountain hike.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/March/2024 @ 8:36 pm
My date for the party
Thank God she’s not wearing Jackie O’s. I hate those. They make a chick look like an inscrutable insect. Not sexy at all. For my money, the sexiest sunglasses for women are aviators. But I’m talking mainly about white chicks.
I’ll be visiting the Kokomo floating bar later this afternoon.
Those banana-colored kayaks remind me of the transparent kayaks I saw in Jeju.
The Wet Spot girls were seated behind us.
Thus far, Swan doesn’t seem all that happy.
Jerry from Alaska Club with his big bag of balls in the pool.
I’ve been asking around what the purpose of those Navy supply ships is since I never see them docked for offloading. I’m told they are fully loaded and ready for deployment wherever and whenever the need arises. So, they move around between ports here in East Asia, standing by for any contingencies.
America is indeed beefing up its presence in that part of the world. One of the few things that Biden’s puppeteers have gotten right.
Should we take a walk in other’s shoes before we judge them?
If you examine the grammar of the question, you can quickly conclude the question should be rewritten. I assume the writer is using “them” as a pronoun to replace and refer to “other’s,” not “shoes.” But you see that “other’s” is modifying the noun “shoes,” so it’s functioning as an adjective. This means that “them” can’t replace “other’s” because a pronoun only ever stands in for a noun. Also: the word “other’s” is a possessive for a singular noun. The apostrophe needs to be shifted like so: others’.
Possible rewrite:
Should we judge other people before we’ve walked in their shoes?You are what you eat, pussy!
So, what’d you think of the comma error in the first frame of this meme?
Sorry, but I never really liked REM. Too annoyingly nasal and drawly.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2024 @ 6:55 pm
Sorry:
That reminds ME of an old riddle.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2024 @ 9:05 am
I don’t know much about either religion, but do their similarities derive from a common foundation (like Catholics and Protestants), or is it just a coincidence?
Common foundation. Buddhism arose out of a Hindu/Brahmanic milieu, so it shares certain basic concepts and assumptions about how the universe works. That said, Buddhism also subverts some of those basic concepts (like karma and dharma, for instance) and reworks them from the inside out. See here for a Hinduism-versus- Buddhism discussion of rebirth/reincarnation.
That reminds of an old riddle:
Q: What does a redneck Hindu believe in?
A: Reintarnation.The relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism is reminiscent of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Not an exact parallel, but there are thematic similarities.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2024 @ 9:03 am
re: running out of candy
Kids (and many of us adults) have an infinite capacity for sweets.
This guy was nursing his wounded cock…must have lost the fight.
I shudder to think of what’s on the blood-spattered table.
Why, yes. Yes, I am!
Well, that’s a cool shot.
I was not in on it, but I had left too much cash in the register instead of doing the required safe drop, which raised suspicions.
That sucks. I’ve never been robbed. I think my bike got stolen once when I was a little kid, but the memory is fuzzy.
I wonder if it tastes as good as it looks[.]
Eating ass: Starter Kit.
We’re captive on the carousel of time
So, something close to a Hindu or Buddhist notion of time. A lot of people used to describe that notion as “cyclical,” but one brave textbook, when I was in grad school, called it “spiral time,” i.e., somewhat circular, but not repeating exactly, which struck me as a more accurate image to apply to the notion. Hindus and Buddhists don’t believe history repeats itself beat for beat; the situation is more like the people who say that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
I looked up James Kavanaugh after seeing what he’d written about time. His view seems pretty dramatic (Karen Armstrong has written about the “drama” of monotheism), so I wasn’t too surprised to see he’d been a priest before quitting the Church. It makes sense that someone steeped in Christianity would see time as a master, a liar, and a death-obsessed tyrant. Joni Mitchell’s view of time seems a bit more abstract by that standard. In fact, her use of the term “circle game” calls to mind the Hindu notion of “lila,” or divine/cosmic play. In this view, the universe has a humorous, playful, random aspect to it, and it doesn’t move in straight lines.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/March/2024 @ 2:23 pm
re: old Bruce
Lots of jokes online about how the nearly unrecognizable Bruce Springsteen looks like either Megan Rapinoe, the obnoxious soccer player, or Ricardo Montalban in his role as Khan in “Star Trek II.”
re: universal-translator humor
Picard is saying, “First, I think that our universal translators have been damaged.” (Yes, he’s using the plural.)
I don’t know Hebrew, so I can’t translate that part.
Beverly’s saying, “Commander, our universal translator seems to have been destroyed.” (It’s hard to tell, in Korean, whether she’s also using the plural.)
I never watched the series “Star Trek: Discovery,” but I did see one clip on YouTube in which the entire bridge crew, kind of like in the biblical “Tower of Babel” story, suddenly starts speaking in foreign languages, with no one speaking the same language. So you hear French, Chinese, Vulcan, etc., spoken by people who don’t normally speak those languages. “Discovery” was panned as a woke turd, so I won’t be watching that episode to understand the context. I did, however, find the clip.
Nice to know Swan has her deeper side. Of course, I’ve suspected a deeper side for a while, now, given that she’s not the usual low-quality, cock-gobbling barfly with three kids, no coherent finances, and no life plan. She’s in control of her life, spending and budgeting wisely, and more or less comfortable with your habits. Most of the girls who’d left you before were flaky and flighty, averse to stability and responsibility because of their immaturity. Please don’t lose this one. She’s a catch.
This creative idea made me laugh.
For a while, this was a fad: severed-head prank photos. Maybe I can dig some up. I’d posted some pics a few years ago.
re: food pics
It all looks good, but yeah, I’d probably want to order more, too.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/March/2024 @ 12:24 am
Seven participated in the adventure.
The Magnificent Seven!
…dispensing cookies on the way
Two of them are monks in training.
It wasn’t far to the top, though
Someone seems rather far behind!
Six years ago, I took my team on a team-building trip to Buan on the West Coast. It was a great time and a prelude to my leaving a couple of months later.
This was unintentionally funny. If you left a couple months later, I guess the team-building exercise didn’t go so well. Heh.
Sorry, it’s the breast I’ve got today.
What beliefs does she cleave to?
re: Dr. Jo
Good to hear there’s been progress. May it continue!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/March/2024 @ 7:55 pm
Good luck with the Dr. Jo appointment!
The Govic is easier to walk than the National Highway, but there are places without a real shoulder.
Yeah, we’ve got spots like that here in South Korea.
One of my favorites, Kim, was still there but obviously a few months pregnant.
Is she making a smart life-choice or a dumb one?
So, if you don’t want my business, keep playing that shit. Rant over.
I rarely listen to music in the best of times. Blessed silence is more my style. I also don’t understand walkers who shut out the world with headphones. What’s so horrible about being alone with your own thoughts?
I still have not recovered my sense of smell since the nostril surgery.
Really? Smell is usually linked to taste. Are you tasting any of your food? If you’re not tasting much, this is a good time to be dieting! Lots of salads.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/March/2024 @ 7:30 pm
A tree I liked.
I wonder what kind it is. To me, it looks like an overgrown telephone pole.
A newly constructed house I rather liked for its simplicity. I could see myself enjoying a cold beer on the front porch. And then later dying of boredom.
Cultivate an inner life, and you’ll never be bored!
It was still a fun hike, though.
Sounds as though it was a bit of an adventure.
Bhel’s crew of well-wishers
Who’s the one guy trying not to be photographed?
First comes the sound…
The flash reveals all! Aine wears a lot of makeup, doesn’t she. You can see how pale her face looks compared to the rest of her.
I hear that A LOT from the bargirls…
But that will be changing soon enough!
Nancy Sinatra is still alive, but M. Emmet Walsh just died.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/March/2024 @ 6:04 pm
I have no idea whether you want to transition to something like a keto diet, but the best generic food advice I’ve heard is to make sure your food is as close as possible to wherever it came from—straight out of the ground, from the ocean, off the farm, whatever. It’s the processing that introduces all the bad stuff. While the keto diet would be strict about eating fruit (berries are okay because of their high fiber content, but other fruits aren’t so good), I’d say fruit is generally healthier than candy, cookies, or—dare I say—pecan pies.
If you’re going to try strict keto—and I know you’re not because of your attachment to beer, but if you were—then you’d have a carb budget of about 20 g of carbs per day. At 2.5 g of carbs per bottle of your favorite beer, you could have eight bottles of beer, but then, you wouldn’t be able to ingest any other carbs from anywhere. A less strict version of keto would give you a carb budget of 50 g per day, and if you skip keto entirely to just go generically low-carb, you could budget yourself about 100 g of carbs per day. Foods that are fibrous and not calorie-dense are your friends, especially leafy greens and cruciferous veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, radish, turnips, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc.). Unprocessed meats have almost no carbs. Certain fermented foods are probiotically good for gut bacteria, such as kimchi and sauerkraut.
And if you’re desperate for bread on such a diet, here’s my favorite keto-bread recipe. You’ll need to buy some specialized ingredients, but it’s essentially a simple soda bread, and you can ask your caretakers to make it for you. It’s a bit on the heavy side, not the greatest for sandwiches, but you can make decent canapés with it.
Of course, you’ve done your own version of a “low-carb” diet before, and that definitely shrank the gut, so maybe try that again (no cheating!). Make it a 30-day project and see how that works out.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/March/2024 @ 6:26 pm
Is that 2.5 g of carbs per bottle or per 100 ml?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/March/2024 @ 9:47 am
The On-Home at Red Bar was pleasant enough, although I declined to partake of the food offerings (they looked pretty carby). After the Hash, I joined the group at IDM for a couple of more brews.
Even with the brews, though, the carbs add up. I see one site says that San Mig Zero (ha! “Zero”) has 5.6 g of carbs per 100 ml of beer; only two 500-ml beers, and you’re over your keto budget for the day. Another site says San Mig Zero has 2 g of carbs per 500-ml bottle, so by that reckoning, five bottles gets you close to half your daily carb budget on keto. Either way, five seems to be about the max, maybe more if the bottles are smaller than 500 ml.
I wouldn’t mind going back in time and being that guy again for a while.
Would you want to keep the knowledge you’ve gained over the years, or would you prefer to have your memories wiped and start afresh so you can reexperience the “innocence” (cough) of those times?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/March/2024 @ 7:19 pm
We are doubling up on our candy purchase for next week.
Some time ago, I would have joked that you should eat whatever candy is left over, but…
“Buddha is not Greek”
People in the West say “Buddha” and think of this guy, called Butai/Budai in Chinese and Podae in Korean. His belly represents plenty or prosperity. In the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, he’s considered a Buddha, but he’s not the historical Buddha. The historical Buddha, before he became the Buddha, practiced hardcore Brahmanic asceticism and spent much of his life skinny. One tale says he claimed to be able to place his hand on his stomach and feel his spine. I think the statues of the Starving Buddha represent this period of his life.
Good luck avoiding the Sausage trail.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/March/2024 @ 3:31 pm
Quit the drinkin’ and solve half of your problems right there! Cut out carbs and solve the rest. I think your exercise levels are already pretty good. With the walking you do, you’re easily over 150 min/week, right?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/March/2024 @ 5:52 pm
What’s a hike without a rickety bridge crossing?
I’d have a hard time crossing that. Ever thought about doing some bridge-improvement projects in your local area? Uprooting every one of those primitive bridges and replacing them with something sturdy and well made? Surely, you have craftsmen in your expat community.
I had just eaten turkey yesterday, and then this guy showed up.
Oh, great dinosaurs, how far you’ve fallen!
We rode back to Barretto in an [air-conditioned] bus. Not a bad way to finish a hot hike.
I can relate. Whenever I finish a 26K hike out to Hanam City, I take a bus most of the way back. The bus stops at Jamshil Station, after which I either cab it back or take the subway.
I’m loving that cracked seat back!
Humanity can be hard sometimes.
I’m only just noticing how the Buddha is substantially larger than everyone else. Subtle messaging.
Anyway, back to Dr. Jo for a follow-up this afternoon.
Good luck with that. Just a routine checkup? Followup on the new meds?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/March/2024 @ 2:51 am
No matter how hard I push the envelope…
Then he said 400 pesos, and I yelled again, stop! I exited the cab, walked across the highway, and caught a Jeepney back to Barretto for 20 pesos. Got out at Sit-n-Bull and had a great lunch.
So you didn’t pay the cabbie anything? We have taxi scammers in Korea, too, and I doubt they’d let you just walk out of the car without paying.
It was my waitress friend Em Jhae’s last night there
“Em Jhae” sounds almost Korean—certainly the “Jhae” part. But I’m guessing that someone was going for the “Spider-Man’s girlfriend” vibe.
I filled the hours with a mini-bar hop
This sounds as if you’re flitting from mini-bar to mini-bar inside a hotel. I suppose you could either lose the hyphen or use another word than “mini.”
a minuscule bar hop
a truncated bar hop
a shorter-than-usual bar hopOne thousand steps later, I was at the front gate of Alta Vista.
Looks like the entrance to some subterranean amusement-park ride.
7000 steps, the natural beauty of Subic Bay
Branches caught in wires… you guys get some strong winds.
The stats for the day, including my dog walk and bar hop.
Have you done the math as to how much you’re expending versus how much you’re ingesting?
Em Jhae enjoyed the birria tacos
Normally, when I see anything labeled “birria,” the food tends to be dark red. Is this a different kind of birria?
I ordered the Philly cheesesteak and was surprised to see it served on a bun instead of a roll. Still tasted good, though.
Yeah, I’d be more likely to call that a “cheesesteak burger” or something.
Time to get ready for tonight’s SOB dance competition.
Enjoy the female flesh before you. I hope you avoid being recruited as a judge.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/March/2024 @ 7:49 pm
Wednesdays come and Wednesdays go, but you can always enjoy them while they are here.
I can think of one way to enjoy the day also known as Hump Day.
So, we’ll see what the blood work results suggest as the appropriate course of action.
Good luck with that. And may your results be result-y.
It turns out Inday has family way up here.
And they look nothing alike! I wonder how they’re related.
A nice view from there, though.
Beautiful sky.
A meatball snack for my guests
Looks nice, but your pic is upside down! Hit “rotate” a couple times.
Sheila and I jokingly argue about who’s house has the best views.
Spot the error!
Those uphill portions would be horrible to hike in hot, humid conditions. I can see myself stopping several times on the way up.
Again, good luck with the blood work!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/March/2024 @ 6:15 pm
«« Back To Stats PageWell, congrats on all the new shorts, shirts, and shoes. Have you ever, in fact, found yourself with nothing to wear on laundry day? I always have a set of “emergency clothes” ready for such a contingency.
Chef salad looks good.
Sunset looks good.
You haven’t mentioned lung trouble in a while, so I assume the new meds are working out. Awesome.
Just reread your linked post. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/March/2024 @ 8:26 pm