Archive for July, 2012

Last Wednesday Lunch for Spring Semester 2012

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Today was hot.

Today was also the last day for Wednesday classes for the spring semester at the Hoshigaoka campus.

I’ve been having lunch with a group of students who took my Web English class last year. We can’t always meet because of their schedules, but we usually get together and today was the last chance for the semester to have lunch, so I’m happy we could do it.

Also, since Bynn and Ahn finished school last week, it’s a little difficult working out our family schedule. There’s only me and my wife (no grandma or aunts around) so when the boys are out of school it can be a little of a problem.

Bynn of course went to the states yesterday, but Ahn is still here. That means, yes, it was ‘take your son to school day’ today, for me anyway.

It’s not our first time, and he’s really good about it.

Of course it didn’t hurt that this group was particularly interested in having him there 😉

Here’s a photo we took right after eating:

Lunch with Ahn and Ikue

Thanks you guys! Hope we can get together next semester, too!

Ahn’s hair

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

My younger son has been sporting what we call a Padiwan braid for a while now. It’s really starting to get pretty long.

I am the one who braids it, and we usually rebraid it about about every 2 or 3 weeks. Sometimes if the band comes off it’s more often, but usually not.

He started this at the same time Bynn got his mohawk. Ahn also wanted a mohawk, but due to a large cowlick in the front of his hair, that really wasn’t going to work out very well. So… this what he opted for. It took some time to get going, but I’ve been braiding it for about 2 years now.

Here are the latest photos from that:

Bynn is off to the US

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

We just got back from taking Bynn to the airport.

He’s on his way to the US to visit with my younger brother and his family for about a month.

My brother has 2 high school aged sons, so there is going to be a lot of guys around that house for a while!

He’s looking forward to spending time there with them fishing, playing paintball, and golf.

I’m sure he’s going to have a great summer.

Here are a few photos from the airport:

Razorback Turtles – Raph and Rudy

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

I was poking around on my computer while trying to edit some golf swing videos from last Monday’s trip to the golf range and came across these videos.

We have 2 small turtles in a bowl in the living room. Great place for them. They of course are the boys’ turtles, which just as surely translates as “my responsibility”.

I play around with them all the time especially when I’m feeding them. They’re actually quite cute, have a lot of personality, and are a lot more fun than you might think. They aren’t exactly fetching sticks or balls, but they do ‘play’ a little.

Here are a couple videos of them doing turtle water ballet and spoon chasing.

httpv://youtu.be/qEXlLctZ1fg

httpv://youtu.be/SsjNH7Nr-gE

 

Bad Neighbors and Tree Trimming

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

I have a tree. It’s a big tree. It’s a strange tree that has leaves pretty much all year round. It loses it’s leaves in the spring for a short time.

It also drops what looks like sawdust for about 3 weeks in July. It’s messy. I admit that.

I also know it provides shade for us, and the apartment building next door, and keeps us from having to look from our second floor balcony into the second floor balcony of the neighbors’ apartments beside our house.

All in all, I consider it a fair trade.

Two nights ago some crank came to complain that the dust from the tree was a problem.

Really?

These people can never say anything to the myriad of folks illegally parking anywhere and everywhere along the street, using the grocery store parking lot exit as an entrance, or worse as a through street, dogs left alone and sweating it out all day long in the apartments next door who then spend all day (I mean _all_ day) barking at each other, and yet they complain about a tree that wouldn’t listen to me if I did tell it to stop shedding?

Idiots. Ingrates. Ungrateful B*******.

Still, Sulseob doesn’t want to cause a problem, so we got after it to do a bit of trimming.

Not that there was a tropical storm coming through today. Killed 14 people nearby…

Didn’t stop us. uh-uh.

I’m going to be really sore for all that tree climbing and then the extra chopping, and still I’m not finished with the cleanup though I put in a good straight 8 hours on it after class today.

<sigh>

Just hope no one comes to the door to complain and it’s me that answers. I’m not nearly so diplomatic when it comes to these types of whiners…

Here are a few pics to let you see what kind of trimming it was – (not minor, I assure you).