... I think my dog is happy to have me home (she NEVER sleeps on her back & we weren't quite quick enough to catch her totally passed flat out, head back and everything). She's been snoozing next to me since she got over the initial "ZOMG YOU ARE HOME!" phase.


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So the weather has been lovely the past few days; today, the clouds are finally coming in during the day - they've been massing, all puffy and white like, way past the edges of the city for the past week. It's still beautiful, and the sky seems so blue; it's a little like a fall sky at home. I wonder what fall skies in Taipei look like - or is ( Read more... )

I may have said this before (if so, forgive me), but I have the right comparison of 'feeling' that Taipei brings me. Rather, this whole move & staring down the barrel of the rest of my life ( Read more... )

Well, last night was fabu.

Cindy headed this way - with the intention that we'd go to the great dead cow restaurant that laoshi took us to - but sadly, they were closed (we now know where it is - as Cindy and I stood there forlornly looking at the closed up row of shops, I was going, 'Well, I know it was definitely in this strip, I think it was ( Read more... )

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from woquinoncoin"The story actually involved the army renting out every bulldozer in the immediate area, strapping on tin cans and barbed wire and other sharp objects to the bulldozer claws (I don't think I mentioned that detail), lining them up in two orderly rows, and then... during their annual military performances of What We Would Do If There Was An Air ( Read more... )

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