• Well, I’m sad to say our conference here in Thailand has been pestered by an epidemic-like case of the stomach bug.  It’s being slated as the Suan Bua "belly" and Christa and I fell victim to the nasty virus earlier today.  Thankfully (so far) our symptoms have not included the vomiting, but we could have…

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  • Well, we’re back here at the Suan Bua Hotel Resort (located just outside of Chiang Mai) for our annual conference.  I was really feeling ready to be back at our home in Xining recently (especially after that brutal Hepatitus B booster I took in the arm today) but I guess you really can’t complain about…

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  • When you live overseas immunizations become a way of life.  Our family of four have a battery of shots we have to keep up to date on in order to avoid getting some pretty nasty illnesses. Each of us has a little yellow card which we use to document which shots and boosters we’ve received…

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  • If you are a coffee drinker it sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it?  Being showered in lattes. But only if you are speaking figuratively instead of literally. While Anna and Christa were going to Anna’s dentist appointment this morning, Sarah and I were set loose on the streets of Chiang Mai.  I chose to…

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  • Christa asked me tonight, "How many people do you know who have been in 3 countries in 3 days?"  My response: excluding European friends not too many.  (As long as you’re speaking about consecutive days of course.)  But we Johnsons have.  Oh, yes. Two nights ago we were in the States. Last night we were…

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  • Anna recently asked if she could take some pictures with our digital camera.  We let her "give it a shot" (OK, that was a pretty bad play-on-words I admit.)  To our surprise she created some aesthetically pleasing images.  She was trying to capture the "essence" of camp to show grandma.  Note: You’ll quickly notice that…

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  • One sure-fire way to *NOT* blog is to say in a post that you foresee "abundant posts in the future".  It’s a little thing called Murphy’s law.  Since I mentioned back on the 18th that I would be posting more frequently, there have been, uh…about 2 posts…  And now we’re rounding the corner on the…

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  • Hinting sometimes works.  For my birthday gift, my parents and in-laws went in on getting me this hip looking yeti jacket.  (Thanks folks!  Now this super-blogger has an appropriate costume.) I’m like a kid who wants to wear the same clothes every day of the week; if I could figure out a way to sleep…

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  • I turn 33 today.  That feels pretty old to me.  If I live to be a 100 that means that I’ve just completed the first third of my life.  Hmmmm, guess I should be thinking about what I want to do with the remaining two-thirds.  I told Anna that Jesus probably died when he was…

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  • Well, it’s been great starting 2007 on the right foot.  The right foot being: while on VACATION! With the help of an abundance of frequent flyer miles we were able to go back to Florida to visit my parents AND to visit the Magic Kingdom.  If you remember, we promised Anna that we would take…

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