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A place where doggies roam free
I take Sienna to University Lake, one of the dog parks in Anchorage, almost every night. It's great because it's a place where dogs can truly be dogs and can swim, run, chase, fetch, wrestle, and play with logs of dogs and their humans. However, tonight seemed remarkable for a wide variety of reasons ( Read more... ) -
G sine theta! G sine theta!
I went cross-country skiing for the third time today. We've been having a lot of crossover temperatures (below and above freezing) and so the snow conditions are getting really bad, leading to very slick ice/snow and quite a bit of difficulty going in a straight line or snowplowing while doing said skiing. This made hills terrifying, so I tried ( Read more... ) -
Anniversaries, eavesdropping, and a charming reminder of Hitler
Yesterday, to mark the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, our classy Vice President Dick Cheney spent the day not visiting maimed veterans of the war or the families of those who have lost loved ones or even anything reverential at all, but rather raising money for the GOP giving a speech in Ohio. During this speech he devoted some time ( Read more... ) -
Up for grabs
In swimming, one has to accept a certain level of risk.... not just of drowning, not just of swimming in water that some six-year-old has invariably peed in, but of getting grabbed in all sorts of places that you would only let someone very intimate with you touch ( Read more... ) -
Swimming upstream
Went to swim practice this morning for the first time since I've been back. I couldn't go back earlier since I had either the Korean Death Flu or SARS -- maybe both. At the same time ( Read more... ) -
Awe-inspiring Turnagain Arm
I used to think that the drive along the Columbia River Gorge was one of the most beautiful in the world ( Read more... ) -
Wax on, rip off
Note: This entry was written on 13 February but was scheduled to post the day I arrived in Korea (to preserve the surprise), but, uhm, didn't. Here it is now, with a little extra tacked on to the end:
So here's something that will shock and surprise almost anyone who has known me for a decent amount of time -- like since college or before ( Read more... ) -
Kamsahamnida! -- part three
Our third day in Seoul also marked our last. We slept in late, grabbed breakfast and set out. Cory wanted to check out the Korean War Museum just down the street from where we were staying, so we struck out to go see it ( Read more... ) -
Kamsahamnida! -- part two
Our second day in Seoul Cory and I decided that hey, we were in Korea so we should go to the DMZ. Our tour bus picked us up at 8 and off we went.
I've heard it said that a lot of parts of Korea are similar to America, but something is just not quite right. The first stop on our tour definitely fell into that category. We were at Freedom Bridge ( Read more... ) -
Kamsahamnida! -- part one
On the second of March, I struck out on a grand adventure to Korea whose primary purpose was to go see Cory ( Read more... )