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Back when I started university, I wanted to be a journalist – so my first order of business was getting a job as a writer for the Branding Iron, the student newspaper. I was pretty committed to the work, covering a wide variety of stories across the UW campus – and participating in extracurricular […] The above Moustache hangs, unopened, on the bulletin board in the kitchen hallway. I got it while attending the Borat pre-premier showing (or event of some kind) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2006. I would guess, based on my November 1, 2006 blog post, “In Rotterdam,” that I saw it on Tuesday, October 31st, […] Back in 2015, when I went around the world heading east, I stopped in Samoa – I went there because it was the easiest way to get to American Samoa. It turns out Samoa is much, much, nicer than American Samoa. I could start to try and dissect the reasons why, but that’s not […] I visited Auckland in 2015 twice, both times very briefly: the first stop I had a 7-hour layover, the second stop was 25.5 hours. Neither were really long: with 7 hours – and an early morning arrival – I headed out of the terminal, into the country, visiting, first, a grocery store and, second, […] I am the baby of the family – clearly an accident. Growing up, my Mother had silhouettes of my siblings (as kids) hanging on the wall by her desk – and she wanted one of me as well. The above was procured at a renaissance faire/festival – at least as I recall it. I […] Looking at my Covid-19 postings, I realized that I have not yet shown any of my Japanese (or other East Asian) belongings. Much of this boils down to aesthetics: I love visiting Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – but the typical art that they hang on their walls is not art that I want […] This is the first in a series of “GO WYO” license plates that adorned my cars – back when I lived in the States and when I owned cars. Follow up license plates were in Indiana, “The Crossroads of America” plate and the exceptionally ugly “www.IN.gov” plate that was issued later in my Indiana-time. […] One of my friends has started studying Japanese – and after the first lesson, she informed me that the Japanese word for “father” is Chichi. Which led me to speculate, out loud, “I wonder where Chi Chi LaRue got his nickname.” “Who is Chi Chi LaRue,” she asked. “He was a famous golfer when I […] It’s occurred to me that two pieces of wisdom given to me from my Father, in my youth, no longer apply. First, I can distinctly remember my Father explaining to me that one important life goal is to save enough money that one can live off of the interest. This is an impossible goal at […] |
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