( Itinerary for my brother-in-law's wedding in Korea on Nov. 1 )

Whole foods had some fresh farm shrimps, so we made a recipe ( Read more... )

One of my favorite weather events is when it's not raining, then there is a huge thunderclap and it's suddenly raining very hard. It's like "Cue thunderstorm" was written in the stage directions of the world. I love it when this happens in real life, and looking outside I think it might be going to happen any minute now.

The duck eggs near my office have hatched.

Bongsu and I went looking for the ducklings one day. Although we didn't find them, we did see some gooselings.

Pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/gwessel/Duckies

The first US Presidential election I remember was in 1988, when I was eight years old. I lived in Massachusetts at the time, and one of the candidates was Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. I remember at one point in the election campaign season my second-grade teacher had us draw American flags on construction paper and write what our ( Read more... )

I think you should know that a Google search for bureaucrat turns up about 1,780,000 hits, and a search for bureaucrat, power gets about 1,530,000. That is, about 85% of all Web pages that mention bureaucrats also mention power on the same page. On the other hand, according to the same test, only about 4% of pages with references to bureaucrats ( Read more... )

The roofs and walls of homes were blown away
And many vehicles were overturned.

* The duck has returned to the nest that's under some bushes by ASHA's parking lot. I'd noticed her first last week and discovered the nest on Monday, but then I didn't see her Tuesday through Thursday this week and was worried she'd abandoned the ten eggs because cars and people kept scaring her off. But this rainy morning I saw her sitting, so ( Read more... )

I was riding somewhere in a car with some people and noticed that I could see the moon and the sun in the same sky, as sometimes happens, very near each other in fact, and it was that level of cloudiness where you could look right at the sun and see the roundness of it, and there was the moon being just exactly the same size. Then I noticed I could ( Read more... )

I'd never asked you to accompany me
On such dangerous missions;
Sneaking behind enemy lines
To buy a quarter-gallon of milk and a lottery ticket.