Sorry I haven’t been writing too much lately.  You might have noticed that I’ve been playing around with pictures lately.  I’ve been using some software my friend Rick told me about called The Gimp.  It’s pretty addictive once you start using it.  You must know the only tool I’ve ever used to modify pictures has…

A few months ago, you’ll remember I was shamelessly begging for coffee.  It worked (to a degree–thanks folks! But my addiction is relentless and the supplies get short quickly when you’re up to two pots a day.  I’m kidding about the two pots.) So here I am AGAIN asking for another handout.  Only this time,…

Having read all of his books, it looks like I’m getting some reciprocation from Donald Miller.  Well maybe that’s not entirely true.  "The Don", as I like to call him, author of Blue Like Jazz and Searching For God Knows What, et al, has started a website called Burnside Writers Collective which gives voice to…

Yesterday I posted about a book I’d read recently.  It seems that post has…ummm, well…not-so-magically disappeared.  Hocus Pocus!  This trick was intentional on my part.  A friend made some comments on the post that I thought were pretty relevant to our context here.  I can still email you a copy of the post if you…

I know it’s been a while.  The posts have just about run dry these past 6 weeks or so.  It’s been a nice break for me to actually have a "private life" during this little hiatus.  We’re heading back to the frigidly cold northern lands this evening and I foresee abundant posts in the future. …

I’ve been married 6 years now.  The "yeti speak" has been in operation half of that time.  Yeah, this blogging stuff all started on (or around) this day in November of 2003.  Sarah was only three months old at the time and screaming her head off (hence her blog nickname that stuck–The Banshee…) In some…

This just in:  I think I’ve run out of things to say.  It’s hard to believe–given my tendency to drone on and on about the most inane topics imaginable.  But it feels true.  The past few days I’ve posted every few days or so in the hopes that something "blogworthy" would happen to me in…

For my friends here in China, just in case you missed it, wikipedia is now open for business… (Good.  Now I can stop accessing using *other* means.)

Can you tell I’m highly unmotivated to study Chinese during my meager month and a half summer break? I keep finding little things to blog about.  For example, did you know that I know when you come and visit me here at yetispeak?  Yes, Big Brother is watching.  And you thought you were the one…