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  • the toast

    So I got married. Here’s the thank you speech/toast from my wedding… As some of you may know we have been in a global pandemic for the past couple of years. For many people this was a life changing event. It was life changing for me as well. Before the pandemic I worked for the…

  • fits and starts and screenshots

    It’s been a while since I’ve been on here. As you can see from the screenshot below my last post was in 2017, and it’s been a half dozen years since I’ve posted more than once a year. I’ve attempted to restart this blog several times in the past few years. There are actually a…

  • the plan

    The plan, if it can really be called that. When I actually type it out it does sound kinda crazy…   Ride Uber or Lyft from my house to the Sac Airport. Rent car at the airport and drive 250 miles to Florence Lake. Take ferry and hike (or just hike if ferry is closed…

  • jury duty

    The last week and a half has been a bit of a change of pace for me. Instead of spending my weekdays sitting in front of a computer I’ve been spending my weekdays sitting in a courtroom. In a lot of Asian cultures the number 8 is a number associated with good luck. In my…

  • selected cellphone shots

    Today I received my new phone, a Google Nexus 4. I ordered it in November and it finally arrived today, 5-6 weeks later, just as promised. My first impressions of it are that it’s a really nice phone, but I am a bit worried about the durability of the device. I shattered the glass on…

  • subaru love

    The last few months have been quite expensive for me and my Subaru. I’ve had all sorts of different car related expenses– a parking ticket (missed the meter maid by less than a minute), a moving violation (my first in four years), traffic school (what a load of crap), and an expensive repair (somehow my…

  • perspectives in practice

    A few years ago I took a course called “Perspectives.” It’s a course on Christian missions. At the time I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life (and in truth I still really don’t) and thought that I might want to be a full time missionary someday. I guess it’s obvious…

  • home sweet home

    In general I try to spend as little money as possible on home furnishings. I tend to spend a good amount of time away from home anyways, and nowadays I don’t entertain much, so I never really cared what my furniture looked like. My house was filled with mostly non matching stuff that I inherited…

  • cardiac case closed

    Today I met with my doctor to go over the results of all the tests I’ve had over the past few weeks. Basically the conclusion is that everything’s healthy. The chest x-ray, the blood work, and all the cardiac tests show that everything’s normal. That was a huge load off of my chest. My doctor…

  • front finally finished

    The landscaping in the front of my house is finally finished. It was about a year ago that I started tearing out the grass in front of my house. I wanted a low maintenance yard, so I put in rocks and wood chips. Recently my dad hired a landscape architecture to do some work on…

  • the garden

    When I first moved into my house in Davis, I was happy to find a lemon tree in my backyard. (Well actually it’s more like my side yard.) Despite my complete neglect the tree never fails to provide a ton of lemons every winter (and for some reason this year it started producing some mutant…

  • the list

    Wow can you believe the year is already almost half over? This year is sort of a symbolic year for me in that it’s the last year that I can call myself a twenty something year old. There’s a sort of stigma related with turning thirty– saying you’re in your early thirties for some reason…

  • the assignment

    Today I randomly found an old essay that I wrote over five years ago. I was searching for “101” in my emails, looking for directions for this place off of highway 101. Instead I found this essay from my English 101 class. It’s about this idea called the “Symbolic Complex.” If I remember correctly, the…

  • the topic of the week…

    Sometimes I stay late at work and decide to eat in Sac before heading back to Davis. Usually in those cases I end up going to Seoul. It’s one of the few places where I feel ok eating alone, probably because it feels more homey, and it’s usually pretty empty, and the waitress lady is…

  • something old….

    So today was kind of a slow day. I spent part of the day looking at old journal entries. I found one that seemed really relevant to me lately. For you see when you hit my age relatives always talk about marriage. Here are my thoughts on the subject from 2.5 years ago, copied and…