I got together with a local engineer names Tian to do psuch hands this last Sunday morning. We met through MartialTalk.com. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything on a Sunday morning other than church — even my wife noted that. Anyway, we met in the community center at this apartment complex. He studied Hsing [...]

We’re starting to apoint the ceiling in the bedroom in anticipation of the eventual emergency of a queen bed sometime this year — a long overdue upgrade in our lives, with the ancient frame threeatening to give, and soon. A few years after we moved here, my wife put up tiny sticker stars across the [...]

It’s a feeling that crept upon me all day, and culminated in waking from a nap about my old house on Bellwood. The sights and sounds of the apartment — the way it feels in it’s dimentions and all — are really comforting. I’m home. Not that Merry hasn’t done everyhting to turn this into [...]

After weeks of green holidays, it’s finally blowing some white stuff around on and off. A few people couldn’t make it for Little Christmas (about par for the course) but it was peaceful and pleasant like the rest of the season. Just a bit weird being above freezing all the time. It reminds me of [...]