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Update (10.23.06): Christa arrived safely in Hong Kong (with no hitches). She will have her first doctor’s appointment this morninig at 10 (about two hours from now.) Thanks for keeping her / us covered in prayer. Prayer requested! Not to alarm anyone, but I have a prayer need I’d like to make known. Last week…
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Welcome to my first ever "Chinglish" Fry Daze post! We’ll see if I can get a sample of prime "Chinglish" each week to post on Fridays for your reading enjoyment. The London Telegraph reports that there is campaign in Beijing to wipe-out Chinglish there as it is "a blight on China’s modernizing pretensions". Their goal…
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Dear Mr. J. Raybun, Hi there. No, you don’t know me, but we share something in common; you could call it a financial history (or a potential bank mail legacy.) I know it’s not much to go on, but some great friendships have often started on less and I have high hopes. You must understand…
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My mom has been doing some good blog posts highlighting great family Halloween costumes from the past. (She posts them and then I steal the pictures! It’s a great setup.) She dredged this one up today of yours truly, circa 1991, during my "goth"* period. I didn’t dress like this every day, but I must…
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It finally caught up with me… After a year and a month of intensive language study, I finally started speaking Chinese in my dreams. The bad part is that I can’t speak it any better in my sleep state than I do in real life. In the dream I started speaking to this taxi driver…
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What do I know about baseball: Then there is St. Louis. I know they aren’t in the World Series yet, but I think they have the advantage at this point (being up 2-1 to the Mets after Billy Wagner imploded the other night in the 9th inning and Trachsel imploded today in the first/second innings. …
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I know I’ve been talking a lot about baseball lately, but it is October so I guess it’s justfied. This post-season gets stranger every day. Consider the two contenders who have the advantage right now. First Detroit. They started the season VERY strong, but petered out in the last month of regular season and blew…
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Today was Saturday (the Johnson family’s blessed day of rest) so we ventured out to a "park" some friends had told us about located on our "end of town". I put the word park in quotation marks because in typical Chinese fashion it resembled something more akin to a "square" or "plaza" than an American-style…
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Today is Friday the 13th. Are you superstitious? I’m not (but if I saw this guy in a dark alley I wouldn’t pause to consider whether or not I believed he would be benevolent…) Just to prove how un-superstitious I am today I actually tried to break a few mirrors, walk under a few ladders,…
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Here’s a Christmas gift idea for me. (I know you’re all out there wondering what do you get a guy who has everything?) Here it is: a yeti jacket. (Cool, huh? The downside is that it costs $78.00! But, hey, I think I’m worth it…)
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