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Seventeen Years and Counting

For a few months now, when people have asked me how long I’ve been Korea I’ve been telling them, “Seventeen years.” It just dawned on me today that as of June 5, that became accurate.
Seventeen years. I remember sitting in a bar in Itaewon, Seoul, near the beginning of my second year, talking to a […]

The New Computer Part Two: XP Update From Hell

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the first surprise I had with my new computer. I had intended to follow that up with another post the next day on my problems with updating XP, but ran into another unexpected glitch that kept me frustrated for several days. That sent me into one of […]

Struggling with the New Computer

In my last post, I described the first issue I had with my new computer, which turned out not to be an issue at all. I had planned to follow that up the next day with a description of how bad of a time I had trying to install and update XP. But a more […]

The New Computer Part One: Aldacron Meets SATA

Ugh! The past 15 hours have been trying. I was planning to build a new computer in a couple of weeks, but decided on a whim to go ahead and put one together yesterday evening. I headed out to the local electronics market, picked out my hardware, paid someone to put it together for me […]

More Movies and Another Mountain

What a busy week it’s been. I’ve got so many things I’ve been wanting to post about, but have kept putting it off to get other things done. Parliamentary elections were held on Wednesday and, as with the presidential election, it was a national holiday. My wife worked, but all of my classes were canceled. […]