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Hang in There

montanaron — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:30:16 +0000

I’m still quite busy with work. Although the new semester’s class workload seems to have settled down, I was offered a project, which I’ve been working on the last several days. I’ve been proofreading a rather long paper written in English by a couple of Chinese students here at the university, a paper about [...] Related posts:

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International Bowling in Daejeon, South Korea

montanaron — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:00:51 +0000

If you know me well, you know that before I became a dashing, international English teacher, I was involved in ten-pin bowling for many, many years–25, to be exact. My main occupation was pin-spotting machine mechanic (and quite a good one, if I may so humbly say), and I also worked as manager (briefly) and [...] Related posts:

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First Sleep and Second Sleep

montanaron — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000

I finished a previous post, Korea’s Online Gaming Woes, by stating that other things wake me in the middle of the night or morning. Actually, I think I have something that’s called sleep maintenance insomnia, wherein I wake up at the same time every morning, usually between 2 and 3 o’clock. Most of time, I [...] Related posts:

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Photos, Baseball and Muifa

montanaron — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:56:01 +0000

If you look at the right hand side bar, you might notice that there is a new category over there-Photos. If you click on it, you will, eventually, get access to many of the photos I’ve posted on the blog at one time or another. This is a new addition, NextGEN Gallery (which I think [...] Related posts:

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Royal Wedding

montanaron — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:03 +0000

Oh, yeah, I forgot to ask. Did any of you watch the wedding on Friday? With an estimated viewing audience of two billion, I’m sure a few of you must have. I watched it for, let’s see, about 5 hours. Yeah, I watched the whole thing, including pre- and post-wedding coverage. I switched channels between [...] Related posts:

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Another Year in Yeosu, June Vacation

montanaron — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:57:57 +0000

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention in my previous post that I’ll be signing on for another year here. Lots of reasons for doing that–familiarity with the job, pleasant people to work with, friendliness of the students and the people of the area, the beauty of the countryside, and, the biggest reason, the upcoming 2012 [...] Related posts:

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A Death in the Family

montanaron — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:27:55 +0000

After a year-long struggle, my friend Nai’s mother succumbed to an illness last Friday night. I posted last May that the doctor had given her just a few months to live, but she held on this long, although she was often in great pain.

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Dancing House

montanaron — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:57:53 +0000

I just finished phoning my friend Nai in Laos and he breathlessly reported that Vientiane experienced an earthquake last night. I had trouble understanding him at first, but he told me, with his sometimes-bad pronunciation and his humorous, but creative, fracturing of English, that:

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PeaceBomb Bracelet

montanaron — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:33:35 +0000

Wow, talk about an oxymoron. Peace – Bomb. They don’t quite go together. But, in a great example of making lemonade when life gives you lemons, there is an organization in Laos that is doing just that. They are making bracelets of the scrap metal of unexploded bombs left over from the incredibly intense and [...] Related posts:

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Frank Nitti is Dead

montanaron — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:20:16 +0000

I know I’m REALLY dating myself here, but when I was a bit younger (ok, a LOT younger), my favorite weekly TV program was The Untouchables, which aired from 1959-1963. It starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, the Prohibition Era federal agent who helped put Al Capone behind bars, and was narrated by Walter [...] Related posts:

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