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I can’t say whether this problem is on your end, on my end, or on both ends, but loading your site in the afternoon is a slog. By evening, though, connections are faster, and your site is completely loaded on my browser. So I guess comments will have to come later in the day as long as this blockage keeps happening.
When we walk, there are good days and bad days. Can’t win ’em all. And if you have a two-day streak of fatigue, well, I’m in no position to judge that.
What’s up with the Hash-trail marking (ribbon) that can’t be worn away by rain? I thought it was all chalk and paper scraps. No one ever takes the ribbons down?
About the biggest turkey I’ve seen in these parts
I’ve mentioned this before, but I saw one like that in Korea. Smelled horrible.
The crew had worked in the kitchen all morning making various Filipino delights, although I did not partake.
Dear Lord, grant John the open-mindedness to participate in the food cultures where he finds himself instead of hiding from them.
The other birthday celebrant
Happy Birthday to you and to Swan’s sis!
We had a few sprinkles but no real rain
Really nice sunset shots.
And here’s Sting’s “Heavy Cloud But No Rain,” lyrics and video.
Praise be to the God of brew
Adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
This one hits a little too close to home.
I was about to head down to my building’s first-floor pharmacy earlier today when I forgot why I was going. Luckily, I knew where to look to remind myself.
May better walking days lie ahead.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/August/2024 @ 11:25 pm
But if you’re married to JY and with a Filipina, doesn’t that make your behavior potentially relevant to Filipino authorities? And on a practical level: is Swan aware you’re married, and if not, why not? You just seem to be putting yourself in unnecessary danger. Corrupt authorities, if they ever found out about your situation, could hold that over your head. You might be making the same “I can get away with this” assumption as the guy being talked about in that video.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/August/2024 @ 8:43 am
It took a million years for your site to load on my browser, but I got there eventually. Nice pics of a good walk and a lovely date.
Hard to feel sympathy for the guy who got caught with the marijuana plants. As the narrator says, “one bad mistake after another.” Dude goes back to live in the PI (and why? for a woman or for the potential to meet a woman, that’s why), still tries for drugs while there, meets another low-quality woman because he’s too dumb to figure out who’s good and who’s bad (a.k.a., thinking with his dick); this woman—probably a youngster taking advantage of an old man—cleans him out while he’s in jail… what did he expect was going to happen? The dude should’ve stayed put in the States. And now, he’s likely to die of cancer in jail. Great life, buddy.
You’re right to stay away from whatever might land you in jail. Just watch out for the adultery charge since you’re still m_rri_d. I’d get divorced for my own safety, as a way to eliminate any excuse to deport/jail me. Explain the situation to Jee Yeun and prompt her to initiate the paperwork. Please.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/August/2024 @ 7:40 pm
Caliente is the adjective “hot,” and calor is the noun “heat.” As for estar caliente (to be hot/sexy) versus tener calor (lit., to have heat), yes, it’s best not to confuse those.
And with ¡Soy estúpida!… are you a woman?
estúpido = man
estúpida = womanJust stick to English, man. It’s hopeless. In Spanish, there are twice as many rules to keep track of as in English.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/August/2024 @ 3:46 pm
tu es mujer muy bonita
I might no longer be critiquing your English mistakes, but even with the little bit of Spanish I have, know that it’s “Eres una mujer muy bonita.” I’d say “Learn them conjugations!” but that’s as hopeless as getting you to understand and explain back to me what a clause is. You’d be better off just saying, “Eres bonita.” (“You’re pretty.”)
Did you know Spanish has two verbs meaning “to be”? One, ser, is the linking verb that applies to “permanent” or “long-term” conditions (being fat, being pretty/ugly, etc.; the other, estar, applies to location (“I’m at the bank”) and to temporary things like emotion (“I’m angry”). And unlike in French or German, you often don’t even need to supply the subject pronoun, so instead of saying “Yo soy,” you just say “Soy.” Instead of “Tu eres,” just say “Eres.”
SER: soy, eres, es, somos, sois, son
ESTAR: estoy, estás, está, estamos, estáis, estánSurely, the Filipinos had a word for “horse” before the Spaniards arrived. Buried under centuries of colonialism, I guess.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/August/2024 @ 4:14 pm
and then through the El Kabayo horse stables before completing our 9K loop
I gather that El Kabayo is the Filipino spelling of el caballo, i.e., “horse” in Spanish. Gwapo for guapo, el kabayo for el caballo… Interesting. What would the Tagalog word for “horse” be?
We saw a couple of these vendors selling golf balls recovered from errant golfers.
Did you buy any?
Probably time for me to go home.
And you still see no drinking problem? Heh.
Looks to have been a great walk.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/August/2024 @ 10:18 pm
In my research on heart failure, I discovered one possible symptom is, in fact, swollen ankles and/or other extremities. I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from that remark, but it might be something to bring up, along with breathlessness and a constellation of other symptoms that could all possibly relate to heart failure. There are types of heart failure as well, most of which can be lived with for years, but they all cut down on average life expectancy. Chelation therapy, based on your link, doesn’t sound like a major worry for you unless you think you might be suffering from metal poisoning. Good luck!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/August/2024 @ 8:35 pm
My tree of the day was as dead as I was feeling
There’s a creepy, skeletal tree at about the Mile 21 mark on Skyline Drive that looks a bit like that one.
re: Eun Oke and crazy chicks
I’m glad you’ve finally found a good, solid chick and have stopped constantly picking the low-quality ones. Maybe there’s hope you’re becoming a better judge of character. Don’t lose this one!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/August/2024 @ 7:40 pm
He’s not in the picture, but a grumpy old man told Swan not to hand out candy here anymore because the kids throw the wrappers on the ground. While I admire his anti-littering zeal, it seems unfair to punish all for the actions of the few. Swan says she wants to skip this street next week.
Skipping the street will also punish all for the actions of a few. This could’ve been a teaching moment, an opportunity to show the kids proper waste disposal and make new, better habits, not to mention a way to validate the old man, who may be crotchety, but who is right to want his neighborhood to look nicer without having a bunch of litterers. He could’ve been recruited, in front of the kids, to keep an eye on them and to report any future littering. Any more litter = skip that street for candy deliveries from now on. Kids might then try to develop a system where, if their street is interdicted, they appear on different streets. Recruit more adults in the Clean Street Watch in response. No matter what system you develop, some little asshole will try to get around it. Show the kids why that won’t work.
The pulled-pork sandwich and the fish both looked great! I’d never heard of “Pacific pomfret” before now, but the fish at least looks familiar. I still think cod is the best and most classic for fish and chips, but given the lack of chips (you had coins or medallions of some sort), you were already headed in a nontraditional direction.
Good luck with what sounds to be a full day.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/August/2024 @ 9:29 am
A day of construction and good eats. Maybe a bit too much heat, but otherwise enjoyable. Nice.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/August/2024 @ 7:35 pm
I would’ve liked to see pics of the village and the burgers, but even what you showed us was quite nice. I still don’t see the appeal of things like the SOB, but you old expats in that part of the world are so divorced from reality that I can do little more than shake my head and think of poor, crippled Captain Pike living out his days in a world made of illusions. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Tibag seems nice and quiet. My kind of place.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/August/2024 @ 6:43 pm
This gal was a couple of months younger than me
Gal? I see a masculine Spanish first name and a mustache. We lookin’ at the same picture? Am I missing a joke?
I don’t recall ever seeing a green ship before
A first for me, too.
And then darkness descended.
A beautiful series of shots, and a nice day of candy distribution followed by good eats. (Just put some sisig in a tortilla and call it a Filipino fajita!)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/August/2024 @ 5:49 pm
Up the creek and through the village
Today’s walk seemed an interesting change of pace. It’s nice to have so many choices of path.
“Preda” does indeed sound predatory—an awful name for a rights-protecting organization.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/August/2024 @ 7:48 pm
Thanks for the support and congrats on Immigration. Seeing those classic cars must’ve been a pleasant surprise.
We’ll see what the next day brings!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/August/2024 @ 11:17 pm
Thanks for the kind thoughts, gentlemen.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/August/2024 @ 7:23 pm
Oh—the surname is on the second photo.
I really wish comment threads had edit functions.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/August/2024 @ 4:48 pm
In the ongoing battle between you and a different commenter, you keep saying your doc’s surname is “DeLeon” while the commenter insists on writing it as “Leon,” perhaps assuming the “De” is somehow unnecessary,* but I see on the sheet in the first photo that her actual surname is “Lucio-DeLeon.” Maybe this is similar to the “Barreto”-vs.-“Barretto” conflict, with different sources spelling it different ways. (I see in the photo that the document spells it the way you do, i.e., “Barretto.”)
That 120 FBS puts me in the “pre-diabetic” category. My mother suffered from diabetes, and that is something I don’t want to deal with in my old age.
Diabetes is bad only if you let it get out of hand, leading to possible strokes, heart attacks, amputations, blindness, organ failure, etc. That’s the extreme end of things. If you really want to watch out, you’ll cut out the alcohol, or at least cut way, way down. I’ve long respected your willpower in quitting smoking; I don’t smoke, but I’ve heard that quitting is a bitch, and most people fail. If you could apply that same willpower to the bottle…
Dr. DeLeon suggested I increase my dose of metformin to twice daily. I’m not entirely comfortable with that, but I will do so pending a meeting with Dr. Jo for a second opinion.
You might want to reread what I wrote about metformin here. Yes, it chases the sugar out of your blood, but the irony is that it shoves the sugar into your organs, which is what already happens naturally with full-blown diabetes, anyway. Metformin is bad news. My own doc prescribed it as well because most docs assess your diabetes only by looking at your blood-sugar level, which is too bad. Better stats would be triglycerides, HOMA-IR (insulin resistance… it’s bad to be resistant and better to be insulin-sensitive), and blood-insulin levels.
my helper (technically caregiver)
What’s the difference? A “caregiver” sounds as though you’re in a hospital bed at home and can’t move around, and the caregiver assists you with things like going to the bathroom and showering.
Swan and our regular waitress, Chu, are becoming good buddies and enjoy chatting together.
Warming up the replacement for Aine, I see.
but this fucker was the biggest I ever remember eating.
A lot of meat on those balls. Eat well.
The pizza. Yes, that’s pineapple on top. Hey, we are in the Philippines!
I’m not dogmatically against pineapple pizza. But it’s gotta taste good. The local Papa John’s has it on their menu, and I ordered it once, but it was disgusting.
Pecan pie for dessert. Hey, man does not live by blood sugar alone!
Yeah, maybe don’t check your blood sugar right after eating that. Looks good, though. Before this year, I’d have contemplated gobbling it whole.
Questions without answers are false information, don’t you know?
It does seem odd that they would flag questions, not statements.
I love the “pun master” meme’s sarcasm. That said, there are some puns that are so terrible they’ve startled a laugh out of me. I admit I like those puns.
Safe journey.
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*This is a dicey question. Take a name like “Ferdinand de Saussure,” the putative father of modern linguistics. When Americans refer to him, the standard thing to do, at least in spoken and some written English, is to include the preposition since it’s part of his name: “As de Saussure often said…” (We all say “Da Vinci,” not “Vinci.”) But—when you make an adjective out of de Saussure’s name, you drop the “de,” so how important is it, really? “We got deep into the morass of Saussurean nomenclature.” (Not “deSaussurean.”)
This is a whole rabbit hole: when I went looking around at different sources, I quickly discovered there are all sorts of naming conventions depending on the country: Spanish is different from Italian is different from Portuguese, for example. Some traditions include the “de” and some drop it. The Chicago Manual of Style notes that bibliographical citations will write “Simone de Beauvoir” as “Beauvoir, Simone de.” The preposition isn’t ignored, but it’s also not attached to the family name. If we go by the Pulp Fiction rule of “I’m American, honey; our names don’t mean shit,” then it seems you’re free to do what you like in informal contexts.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/August/2024 @ 3:40 pm
I’ll be taking Swan to the beach town of San Narcisco tomorrow for an overnight stay at the Mope Resort.
Is that pronounced “mope” or “moh-pey”?
It must be so hard on you.
Whoa—that’s a scene from the cult classic “Sleepaway Camp.” The freaky ending of that movie exists on YouTube.
Have fun on your trip!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/August/2024 @ 5:43 pm
The Hares were fucking with us with messages like these.
Seeing such messages at the beginning of a long walk might not be so bad, but at the end of the walk, they could sap the will. But you knew they wuz jus’ funnin’.
For me, when I would walk 30K, it would feel like a stroll up to about the 20K mark, then after that, it got exponentially more draining. The final 5K were always the worst.
Our gracious hostess (in orange shirt) even prepared food for the hungry Hashers
Did you have any? Or were you holding out for what Uncle Roger calls “white-people food”? Filipinos seem very proud of their cuisine. Try some! You can always hit a convenience store and get white-people food afterward if the Filipino cuisine isn’t rib-sticking enough.
The trail as the Hares intended. I liked it in bits and pieces…
The red outline looks vaguely like a chicken being stretched out by a black hole.
I opted to skip the Hash circle
Are there any penalties for skipping? I mean, I know of your tendency to slack when there are no consequences to motivate you!
re: “You should start wearing longer skirts.”
Star Trek was definitely a product of its time: the miniskirts, the go-go boots…
Have fun at It Doesn’t Matter.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/August/2024 @ 7:56 pm
When I woke up and plopped down at my desk to do my usual morning internet surf, this gecko-like creature was camped out on my window.
Based on the two tails, I’d say there’s more than one.
These kids photobombed my finger shot
What’s a “finger shot”?
Food and menu both look good! I hope the Hash went well.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2024 @ 3:41 pm
Ah! A long-shadow photo! Those look mighty familiar.
Happy with what I have
Is that meant to be praise? Sounds more like settling.
It’s a short one (less than five minutes) so give it a watch
I couldn’t figure out his accent at first. Finally pegged it as Irish, but d’oh! He’s Scottish. His insights were positive, but if the Critical Drinker is to be believed, a lot of Scots are trying to get the fuck out of Scotland. (Then again, if you watch The Hoof GP, you see the beauty of the Scottish countryside everywhere.)
More and more, this is me.
Sounds like a Biden quote.
Have fun at John’s. And happy trails to Bruce.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/August/2024 @ 5:48 pm
Looks to have been a good time with Bruce!
Time to disembark
Trivia: the verb disembark contains the word bark/barque, an old word for a ship.
Mindless hypocrits
I do hope that’s just a typo.
Something doesn’t add up
Took me a second to get that joke. “Twenty, too!”
Bruce Springsteen… another woke idiot. What a shame. Another opportunity to separate the artists from the art, I guess.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
—WB Yeats, “Among School Children”Sometimes, it’s impossible to separate the two.
How long is Bruce there? I hope he has a pleasant stay. What’s on tap next?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2024 @ 7:36 pm
wide-open road
Correctly hyphenated! A red-letter day!
You’ve got a full day ahead. Enjoy!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2024 @ 12:40 pm
I’m not at the other extreme because I do care…
Just so you know, I am making some effort to improve, as lame as those efforts might be. I’ve read your comma posts and done some other “research” on the ‘net, and I think I have a basic understanding of the punctuation concepts we’ve discussed.
…but I believe I’m better now than I was…
John, you’re a great rationalizer. Before Swan, you used to rationalize your behavior with women, and you still rationalize the drinking, which you claim is under control despite blogging numerous examples that show otherwise.
No, you haven’t improved one bit since I began this whole language thing. I see the same errors over and over again, indicating that whatever you’re calling “study” is little more than glancing over the information and not retaining it. You also remain unable or unwilling to explain in your own words the rules I’ve tried to teach, which is a sure sign that you’re making no real effort. If you were truly motivated to learn, truly curious—instead of being so self-satisfied with your current level of prose—I’d see progress, but there’s been none. I think some of this is laziness, and some is stubborn resistance. And since there are no consequences, here, for laziness or stubbornness, none of this matters.
I prefer honesty: you don’t really care, and you’re not really willing to make the actual effort to (1) learn, then to (2) prove you’ve learned. And hey, that’s fine. As I said on my own blog, my mistake was to treat your blog as if it were a classroom, and it’s not. So, to save myself the stress (because I did care), I think it’s better for me just to let go of this silly project. You can go on pretending that you’ve actually learned something, but every time you write a post, I see that you haven’t. It’s better for me just to recognize, and bow to, the obvious.
Things might be different if this were a real class, and you were being graded. That would provide you some extrinsic motivation. That, or it might be nice to see that you were intrinsically motivated to learn, i.e., for love of language, not for fear of penalties. But as with a lot of people who don’t really care about their own slovenliness, I think you see language as something to use sloppily, with other people cleaning up after you if you’re writing something to be presented somewhere (see this old post).
Look, I’m not writing any of the above in anger. Frustration, yes, but it’s frustration that I’ve caused myself. “You can lead a horse to water, but…” Anyway, your prose is indeed good enough for government work, and I remain a daily reader because of the interesting content, but I can only wish like hell that you’d clean the prose up. Other readers might not notice the problems, or maybe they notice but don’t care, and that seems to be all right with you. Just be honest about not really caring. I realize it may be an HR-borne reflex to want to placate people, make them feel better, but that should never happen at the expense of the truth. There’s no need to tell me you’ve learned or studied or improved when you obviously haven’t. Meanwhile, good luck with untrustworthy Grammarly.
I’ll still continue to comment, of course, but I’ll harass you no longer about grammar and mechanics. Thanks for tolerating all the carping.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2024 @ 7:09 pm
My mind is going. Take three:
And I’ll quietly cringe when I happen upon my own errors.
Did I finally get that right? They say that, with heart failure, cognitive problems can result from ever-poorer circulation of blood to the brain. At least I’m still aware enough to catch my errors even if I’m catching them too late.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/August/2024 @ 12:40 am
“I’ll just quietly cringe when I happen up an error.”
And I’ll quietly cringe happen upon my own errors.
How I wish WordPress and Blogger had “edit comment” functions.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2024 @ 9:47 pm
Yeah, I’m going to fail you, but your blog is a blog and not a classroom, so I have to fail myself as well for thinking I could be a teacher in this medium. You’re incorrigible, and I really need to stop wasting my remaining time on fruitless pursuits.
A lot of people use the excuse of “style” in trying to justify their sloppy grammar and mechanics. Proper language doesn’t come naturally to you because you never made a habit of using it early in life. That’s partially on you and partially on your education. And objectively speaking, if most of humanity doesn’t care one way or the other about proper language, then as you say, the only thing that really matters is being able to communicate clearly. “Good enough,” not “good.”
But for those of us who have gone a little deeper into the linguistic woods, we see mistakes—especially repeated and avoidable mistakes—as sucking out the dignity from what might have been good, solid prose. This is why I constantly cringe at rightie memes that could have been clever had they not made mistakes in grammar and mechanics. Sometimes, before I place a meme on my blog, I’ll Photoshop it to clean up the language. But I don’t do that consistently: if I did, my life would be nothing but corrective Photoshopping.
Part of the confusion is that you’ve previously claimed a willingness to learn, but from your actions, you show a stubborn unwillingness to learn. I think the rhetoric needs to match the actions: just be honest and say “I don’t need that crap.” For my part, I figured this out about you a long time ago, yet I stubbornly persist, maybe for reasons of spiritual inertia, or some forlorn hope that something of what I say might stick. But it truly is hopeless. For you, “good” is merely “good enough.” I should save us both the trouble and stop hounding you. Instead, as with those memes, I’ll just quietly cringe when I happen up an error.
By the way, a Google search of the phrase “took a puff of her cigarette” yields 13,900 results. The phrase “took a puff off her cigarette” yields only 185 results. I guess you could defiantly spin this as “Right on! I’m one of the rare ones!” Rationalize away.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2024 @ 7:34 pm
1. If I rewrote that sentence[,] I’d take out the “too.” I wrote it as “to” originally, but Grammarly said I needed to change it. The sentence works without either one.
Don’t trust Grammarly. It misses things. In that sentence, the phrase “rainy season trek” needs a hyphen. Trek is the noun being modified by the phrasal adjective rainy season. The adjective comes before the noun, so it needs to be hyphenated. You’ll get this one day.
2. A sunshiny hike, but an hour later it was pouring down rain.
Interrupted by text, but you then write:
How’s this: A sunshiny hike, but an hour later[,] it was pouring down rain.
Correct! But why is this correct?
3. When it rains[,[ it pours[,] and that blows.
Yes, correct. But why?
4. Original sentence: Aine walked by and said hello, but kept walking.
I wrote:
In the above, you need to either add a “___” or remove a ___ .
Basically, you need to either add a “she” or remove a comma.
Correction 1 (add “she”):
Aine walked by and said hello, but she kept walking.Correction 2 (remove comma):
Aine walked by and said hello but kept walking.The first correction makes this into a compound sentence with two clauses. The second correction makes this into a simple sentence with a compound predicate. See Commas, Part 1 to review. As I’ve said before, if you only mastered Part 1 and Part 2 of my comma series, you’d solve 95% of your problems.
QUIZ: Please teach me, in your own words (no cutting and pasting references from elsewhere—your OWN words), why the following sentence is wrong and how to correct it. So I’m looking for two things: a WHY and a HOW. The incorrect sentence:
She took a puff of her cigarette, and coughed.
1. WHY: Why is the above sentence wrong?
2. HOW: What are two ways to correct the sentence?No passive-aggressively avoiding the quiz, now! Make the mental effort, please. I know you can do this. Review what I’ve written if needed (Commas, Part 1, linked above). Review it a dozen times. I’ll know you’ve learned the thing if you’re able to teach it back to me without merely quoting someone else (cutting and pasting the rule = no thinking). If you never learn the why of these corrections, you’ll always make the same mistakes over and over. Surely, an old dog can learn a new trick!
Things we want to avoid saying when correcting poor English:
Well, that doesn’t look right.
It doesn’t flow right.
That doesn’t sound right.
That just looks strange.
etc., etc.The above are vague and content-free non-reasons for making changes. There are actual rules governing these corrections. Language is rule-bound, like it or not. Sure, there’s room for creativity, but good writing involves freedom within constraints, not freedom without constraints. Sure, if you’re writing free verse, knock yourself out and be as shitty as you want. Otherwise… rules.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2024 @ 11:56 am
The down path we chose (appropriately nicknamed Motherfucker) was a tad too steep, rocky, and slick for a rainy season trek.
Spot the error!
Let the climbing begin. My tracker says it was exactly 1.6 kilometers to the ridgeline.
Damn. A mile-long climb?
During rainy season, algae grows on the rocks making them extra slippery.
I haven’t covered this one in my series on commas yet, but can you spot the error?
That’s Columban College in the foreground.
What’s the campus like? Before I’d realized that all the US universities had curdled into woke-ideology factories, I used to love walking around college campuses. They’re nicely manicured, well landscaped, and often filled with interesting buildings and outdoor sculptures. They’re also (or they were) a good environment for nerds. These days, I’d probably just get yelled at if I were to set foot on a campus.
I had the steak lunch special for only 595 pesos.
Somewhere, a Texan is weeping at the puny size of that steak. Is beef as expensive in the PI as it is in South Korea?
A sunshiny hike, but an hour later it was pouring down rain.
Spot the error!
When it rains it pours and that blows
We’re on a roll! Spot the errors!
Aine walked by and said hello, but kept walking.
In the above, you need to either add a “___” or remove a ___ .
550/2 is not 225
Correct. Think of 550 as 500 + 50. Divide both by 2, and you get 250 + 25, which is 275. But for what it’s worth, 450/2 is 225!
Sounds as though it had been a pretty good day. Nice. Here’s to many more.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/August/2024 @ 6:41 pm
«« Back To Stats PageAre you seriously saying there are bars out there that have no menus or listed prices? I don’t drink, but if I was expected to sit down and order regular food without knowing its price, I’d walk out. Yikes.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/August/2024 @ 1:41 pm