Outdoor Travel Geek

Category: thinking aloud

  • the eulogy

    My dad passed away recently, and his memorial service was this weekend. I am grateful to have had my dad as a father, hopefully the tribute I wrote and read to him does his memory justice. Hi everyone, for those that don’t know me, my name is Mike Hong, and I am Seung Hong’s elder…

  • dating data reporting

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    I’ve been working in the Data Reporting Office of the California Department of Education for about a year now. The logical and analytical left brain part of me enjoys the challenge of writing SQL statements (SQL is a database programming language) to extract the data needed for reports. The end result of my work is…

  • healing progress

    It’s been about five weeks now since my crash. For the first week after my crash I was in a hard splint that covered my arm all the way to my elbow. The timing of the crash was pretty terrible because I had agreed to be a groomsman for Jason’s wedding, which was the following…

  • the foolish life

    This morning I had a somewhat foolish thought. For a brief moment I thought about quitting my job, selling my house, and buying one of these bike trailers. Without a job or a house I’d be free to just wander around the country by bike. I think it’s a really smart and well designed trailer.…

  • cardiac quandry

    Today I had an appointment to get checked out with my doctor. Originally my appointment was scheduled for Monday, but it conflicted with the delivery time for my washing machine. And for some reason the delivery company was unable to reschedule, whereas it’s fairly easy to reschedule a doctor’s appointment with my HMO. One of…

  • some perspective

    Found this on Google reader today. It reminded me of how blessed we are. I am thankful for all of these reasons.

  • the intro

    Hello. My name is Mike. Allow me to introduce myself. I am an introvert. What does it mean to be an introvert? Well, let me first get into what it does not mean. Introversion does not necessarily mean quiet and boring, although I do prefer to stay at home and read rather than go out to…

  • happy place

    I wonder if it’s weird to admit this… I’m not anywhere close to having kids or even being married, but I already have the name picked out for a daughter. If I ever have a daughter, I’m going to name her Auburn. Her middle name’s going to be Connie. Auburn Connie Hong. Not bad right?…