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Hats off to Swan on running 10K. I had no idea she was a runner. I assume she runs in her spare time, but you never write about it…? Or was this 10K event just a sudden decision on her part, with no guarantee that she would go the distance? Seems there’s a lot about Swan we don’t know.
And again, RIP to Dave, who touched many lives.
I want to go!
Is abseiling part of that 80K hike?
Well, it’s Monday, and I had a restful, pizza-ful Sunday after coming back Saturday night from my walk. Back to the grind, and back to the discipline. I’ve also written my postmortem, which is now up.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/November/2025 @ 7:06 pm
re: Dave
Seemed like an interesting fellow. Brace yourself for whatever comes next.
The beach view at dusk.
Which directions can you see from your rooftop? N, S, E, W? I can’t remember whether you’ve ever photographed a sunrise. I’ll have to troll your archives.
Here in the Philippines, I just hold up my empty bottle and holler, “Isa pa!”
And the poster gets the French wrong: the “please” should have a space in it: “S’il vous plaît,” not “S’ilvous plaît.” At least they got the accents right.
RIP, Dave. But as you yourself wrote years ago, “no mulligans.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/November/2025 @ 8:42 pm
Beef enchiladas look good. Salisbury steak veggies look like the usual sad afterthought. Maybe, instead of a do-over life, your postmortem existence will be eternity on a floating bar. Nothing but great weather if you’ve been good; nothing but lashing, furious storms if you’ve been bad.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/November/2025 @ 11:23 am
Seeking shelter from the storm
Happy Hashing and stay safe.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/November/2025 @ 4:17 pm
Batten down the hatches! Good luck with the weather. I hope you see this.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/November/2025 @ 10:03 pm
Happy adventuring!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/November/2025 @ 6:10 pm
I would refuse to eat only liver and onions, so I guess I’m a human garbage disposal. That would explain a lot.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/November/2025 @ 6:16 pm
Georges Perec wrote La Disparition (The Disappearance), an e-avoiding novel, in 1969. An equally great feat was the translation of that novel into English in 1994 by Gilbert Adair, who successfully preserved the e-avoidance and retitled the novel A Void.
It’s not too hard to avoid using that fifth glyph if you try. You just train your brain to do it, and with a good amount of focus, victory can waft loftily into your waiting grasp.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/November/2025 @ 12:44 am
The Hare (Almoranus) speaks German, and I *think* “saufn oida” roughly translates to “beer near.”
AI says it’s Austrian/Bavarian dialect—”drink up, dude!”
“Bier in der Nähe” would be more conventional German. (“Nähe” is etymologically related to the English “nigh.”)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/November/2025 @ 7:02 pm
Pardon my period. I didn’t know I was still having those after the surgery.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/November/2025 @ 12:35 pm
All Souls’ Day on November 2 is a Catholic thing. El Día de los Muertos is mainly Mexican Catholic, November. 1-2.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/November/2025 @ 12:29 am
Brian’s right—rarer is more valuable. Once per season, with a seasonal theme, seems reasonable. Also: more time to practice and to invent innovative, flashy dance moves.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/November/2025 @ 7:55 am
It’s something I’ve discussed on your blog before, but I haven’t hit it on Substack yet: a dangling modifier. You wrote:
but as an introvert, making them can be difficult.
“As an introvert” is a modifier that’s supposed to describe the subject of the ensuing clause, but the subject of the clause is “making.” So “making” is an introvert. Possible correction:
“…but as an introvert, I’ve had difficulty making friends.”
Dangling modifiers are an example of when our brains know what they want to say, but it comes out wrong.
Correct these dangling modifiers:
•As a child, French was difficult.
•At seven feet tall, audiences were astounded by the player’s height.
• Trying hard not to fart, class seemed interminable to the sweating Brandon.Good luck!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/November/2025 @ 12:32 pm
but as an introvert, making them can be difficult.
Spot the error!
Have fun at the SOB’s last gasp. Or grasp. Or death rattle. Whatever.
They should make it fun by throwing all the girls in a pit, handing out swords and axes, and telling the girls that the lone survivor gets $10,000 cash. If you can’t go out with one kind of bang, go out with another.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/October/2025 @ 6:08 pm
Well, as the exaggerated punctuation surely made obvious, I remember how it all ended. Would you say you’re in a happy spot now?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/October/2025 @ 1:41 pm
Oh, my God!!!! How did all of that turn out????
I’d say that you’re a terrible judge of character, but we men are all stupid creatures when it comes to women. Some of us just happen to get lucky.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/October/2025 @ 12:12 pm
Today’s hike with the Wednesday Walkers was an ass-kicker, I’ll tell you about that tomorrow.
Same error I always see. What’s the problem, and how should you correct it?
re: black thoughts and brain not shutting up
It’s not too late to try Zen meditation.
re: retiring driver
Sorry to hear it. Was he really that much of a grifter?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/October/2025 @ 9:46 pm
Ant then we were On-On!
Am I missing a joke here?
Happy rutting.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/October/2025 @ 9:36 pm
Hard to research when you don’t know what you are looking for.
So basically, someone needs to teach you how to study. You comb over the material you’ve covered and look for patterns that match the possible errors. Did I make a comma splice? Did I leave out a hyphen? Did I forget a period or a comma? What you’re really looking for, and what all lazy people are looking for, is to have the answers handed to you so you don’t have to make the effort to think. But if I simply hand you the answers, then you’ve learned nothing. Knowledge has to be both learned and earned.
But congratulations on FINALLY giving me a decent definition for what a clause is! This is a red-letter day! Now—which of the following are NOT clauses?
1. …after Kevin farted.
2 …until plants grow brains
3. Staring intently into the microscope,
4. …can’t be done without KY jelly.With the “Jeepney” question, you made two corrections, one of which was unnecessary (adding “Are”), and the other of which was accidentally correct: don’t pluralize with an apostrophe! Jeepneys, not Jeepney’s. That’s the correction I was looking for.
And remember: independent clauses stand on their own; dependent clauses cannot and are therefore incomplete thoughts that depend on independent clauses to be complete.
indep. clause: You need a bath.
dep. clause: Because you stink, …Complex sentence (has both independent and dependent clauses):
Because you stink, you need a bath.Wanna stop the brain deterioration? Stop soaking it in alcohol. Easy. Simple. Just this one weird trick!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/October/2025 @ 2:11 pm
I’d be happy to go back and re-read the lessons covering the cited errors if you will provide the BOE/PTOSP reference number.
I’m on a walk right now, so I don’t have the time or energy to do your research for you, but you are free to look through my Substack archive to find the relevant posts. Besides, I should never have to lead another adult by the nose.
Hint, though: these problems have all been repeatedly handled in BOE. You saying you haven’t retained anything? As Biden might say, “Come on, man!”
Oh, I think there’s a great deal of stubborn intentionality behind your forgetfulness. Feigning innocence doesn’t improve my impression. Every time I ask you what a clause is, for example, you refuse to answer. So: What is a clause?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/October/2025 @ 6:15 pm
All those Substack English lessons for naught. I suck as a teacher.
• Life is good, live it while you’ve got it!
• Jeepney’s disappearing?
•They are also building a mass transit rail line from Manila to Angeles.All three of these errors have been covered multiple times. Why do I bother? Because hope springs eternal. And because I’m the stupid guy slamming his head repeatedly into the wall while expecting different results. You should read up on passive-aggressive behavior sometime.
Otherwise, La Union sounds like a 7 or an 8 out of 10.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/October/2025 @ 6:56 pm
Nice pics of the Hash. Walk on!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/October/2025 @ 3:47 am
So, no one has Zero beer in Bauang, and a long night of drinking SML left me somewhat out of sorts. It’s all a little fuzzy after that, but I did wake up in my bed this morning, so I guess things ended well, even if I don’t recall how I got there.
As I’ve said before: blackouts a couple of times a year. Well, good luck with that.
Bauang looks gorgeous. Have fun celebrating the La Union Hash.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/October/2025 @ 1:50 pm
I’ve gone across it in the past, but wasn’t feeling so brave yesterday.
Same problem as pointed out in a previous post. But what’s the problem?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/October/2025 @ 2:43 am
The world leader in litter. From what I’ve seen, it is a nationwide effort.
Wow, they really don’t care, do they. And they beat India, which has a population 12.5 times larger than the PI. That’s crazy.
Congrats on the lung results. I hope the meds help.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/October/2025 @ 2:01 pm
Grouphike is just a nine-letter word.
Leaving the pavement behind, it seemed nothing had changed since the last time I was here.
Nice bleeder! Take care not to let it get infected.
Good luck at the doc’s.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/October/2025 @ 4:05 pm
Sentence 1 was already fine. The problems were in Sentences 2 and 4. I noticed you didn’t correct the problem in 4. What was the problem? In both cases, you’ve got a compound predicate.
• Sally sat down and farted. (compound predicate: 2 actions by the subject)
Not—
• Sally sat down, and farted. (the comma makes no sense and only interrupts)
So 2 and 4 should be rewritten without those commas:
2. We don’t visit Harley’s that often but always enjoy it when we do.
4. We asked that something more appropriate be played (we were the only customers), and they put on some classic rock but didn’t turn it down.Either that, or turn 2 and 4 into compound sentences by making the latter part of each sentence into a clause introduced by a comma-conjunction:
2. We don’t visit Harley’s that often, but we always enjoy it when we do.
4. We asked that something more appropriate be played (we were the only customers), and they put on some classic rock, but they didn’t turn it down.Et voila.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/October/2025 @ 3:02 pm
Of these sentences, two are erroneous! Which are they and why (hint: same reason!)? Let’s put that newfound Bad Online English knowledge to work!
1. Then it was on to the SM Mall next door, and the department store happened to have the cargo shorts I needed on sale for 500 pesos a pair.
2. We don’t visit Harley’s that often, but always enjoy it when we do.
3. Perhaps it was coincidental, but I remembered this place that was perfectly suited to satisfy my sudden craving for a waffle.
4. We asked that something more appropriate be played (we were the only customers), and they put on some classic rock, but didn’t turn it down.
5. I was never over the limit and learned that three low-alcohol beers an hour kept me in the safe zone.I hope the upcoming “gruesome details” don’t involve injury. And good luck with the pulmonary doc tomorrow. Did you try the spirometer? If Swan’s a certified caretaker, does this mean she knows how to read spirometers and record their results?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/October/2025 @ 7:36 pm
Take it to the limit one more time
In our defense, they did start an hour earlier than us.
So he’d been walking an hour longer and he still had the energy to pass you. Well, I get passed by everybody these days, even the ancient slowpokes.
We had ninety-nine Hashers in attendance for the anniversary run (we are normally in the thirties).
It’s like how churches suddenly fill up at Christmas and Easter.
Enjoy the next anniversary bash.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/October/2025 @ 7:01 pm
«« Back To Stats Page“Turns out she hanged herself.” Is that better?
Yes. As the saying goes: Men and clothes are hung; criminals are hanged.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/October/2025 @ 6:01 pm