Sunday, February 28, 2010
Hodge-podge
A few things for you today:
1. There are some new photos and video available for you on Flikr. The new material includes the complete complement of photos from our visit to Winter Wonderland this past week (which I gave you a teaser to yesterday).
2. The tsunami seems to have been a bust here. (Which is good, of course!) Nobody really seemed to have been all that concerned about it, but apparently it came ashore here in Taiwan at about 2PM local time (several hours ago as I write this). No impact at all. The fireworks going off right outside my window upset me much more than the tsunami non-event.
3. I've tried to integrate some audio into the blog via a service called AudioBoo. (Did you see / listen to the post yesterday?) From time to time, I think it will be good to speak some stuff (instead of taking the time to write it all out), post it along with some photos, and let that be good. What do you think?
4. It's been some time since I posted any of John's artwork, so let me give you his latest Sunday School creation:
He's also been doing some watercolor painting (in addition to painting the lantern for his school's lantern festival contest), something I think he didn't really do much until Aunt Maxine came to visit over Christmastime. He really likes to paint - thanks Maxine! I'll get a picture of his "art gallery" where we have his paintings hung up at soon.
GJS
1. There are some new photos and video available for you on Flikr. The new material includes the complete complement of photos from our visit to Winter Wonderland this past week (which I gave you a teaser to yesterday).
2. The tsunami seems to have been a bust here. (Which is good, of course!) Nobody really seemed to have been all that concerned about it, but apparently it came ashore here in Taiwan at about 2PM local time (several hours ago as I write this). No impact at all. The fireworks going off right outside my window upset me much more than the tsunami non-event.
3. I've tried to integrate some audio into the blog via a service called AudioBoo. (Did you see / listen to the post yesterday?) From time to time, I think it will be good to speak some stuff (instead of taking the time to write it all out), post it along with some photos, and let that be good. What do you think?
4. It's been some time since I posted any of John's artwork, so let me give you his latest Sunday School creation:
He's also been doing some watercolor painting (in addition to painting the lantern for his school's lantern festival contest), something I think he didn't really do much until Aunt Maxine came to visit over Christmastime. He really likes to paint - thanks Maxine! I'll get a picture of his "art gallery" where we have his paintings hung up at soon.
GJS
A few old photos from Christmas 2009
My son brought these photos home from school this week. His teachers took them around Christmastime. They were “old-fashioned” photos printed on photo paper, developed through a photo processor. Digital photography is so ubiquitous now, it was a little strange to have these “hard-copy” photos in hand! For your enjoyment…
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Burger King "breftis" comes to Kaohsiung
Right up front, I'll say that "breftis" from the title is a funny way of saying "breakfast." If you didn't grow up on North 32nd Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, then you probably wouldn't pick up on that on your own. Not your fault.
A little while ago I mentioned that there was a new Burger King restaurant near our home in Kaohsiung. Smart readers would have immediately though, "I wonder when he is going to go there to get some of their 'breftis'?" I would like to report that it has happened.
It was a tasty breakfast. I'll go back again.
I have also updated the post about the new places in our neighborhood with photos, so click here to check them out.
GJS
A little while ago I mentioned that there was a new Burger King restaurant near our home in Kaohsiung. Smart readers would have immediately though, "I wonder when he is going to go there to get some of their 'breftis'?" I would like to report that it has happened.
It was a tasty breakfast. I'll go back again.
I have also updated the post about the new places in our neighborhood with photos, so click here to check them out.
GJS
Week 37 update (the baby)
He's not come out yet...but we had the latest check-up yesterday and I wanted to share the results. Everything is coming along fine, he probably weighs close to 7 lbs. now (at about 37 weeks), so we figure that if he stays in there for another month or so (John was born about a week past his due date) he will approach a birth weight equivalent to what John's was (9 lbs. 3 oz.). While we are very happy that Barb is producing big, healthy babies, I was sort of hoping that maybe this one might be a little bit smaller (8 lbs.?) so that it might have a little bit easier time coming into the world. (John took some extra help to come out.) Well, whatever happens, I'm certain it will work out fine!
While we were at the hospital, John took the chance to get his vitals measured. Here's his "stats":
Grandpa S. was able to quickly convert these metric totals to pounds and inches today when we told him about them on Skype (he is used to dealing with metric measurements at work), but for those who aren't as savvy, I'll save you the need to get out your calculator. It's 37.5 lbs. and 41.3 inches (about 3 ft 5 inches). No wonder John gets heavy so fast nowadays when I carry him!
GJS
While we were at the hospital, John took the chance to get his vitals measured. Here's his "stats":
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| Top: 17.0 kg; bottom: 104.9 cm |
Grandpa S. was able to quickly convert these metric totals to pounds and inches today when we told him about them on Skype (he is used to dealing with metric measurements at work), but for those who aren't as savvy, I'll save you the need to get out your calculator. It's 37.5 lbs. and 41.3 inches (about 3 ft 5 inches). No wonder John gets heavy so fast nowadays when I carry him!
GJS
Today's Run
I was hoping to have a "pretty picture" to show you of my run route, etc. today, and I even went to the trouble of taking my GPS and strapping on my heart rate monitor (HRM) chest strap, but I literally was one step out the front door of our building when the batteries in the GPS died. Darn it. I knew that if I went back upstairs to swap out my now non-functional GPS with my regular watch (with a simple stopwatch feature that I have been using to time my runs lately) that I just might not make it back out the door, so I just went without a way to record my time. I feel really weird when I do this - I like to at least know how much time I run for. But today, nada in terms of information or statistics on the run. I estimate it was about half an hour. It was the first time I have gone out to run in the evening here (I generally always run in the morning), and while it was a good run - the weather wasn't too hot or anything, and I felt like I had put in a good effort by the time I called it quits - it confirmed for me the superiority of my customary AM runs. Why? The streets were simply packed with people! I know a lot of it is from the Kaohsiung Lantern Festival going on through next weekend, and when I ran along the Love River where the festival is centered, there were simply throngs of people there. That is to be expected, but there were also mobs of people out in Central Park and along pretty much all the streets. News flash - this is a pretty big city! (pop. about 1.5 million in the city proper; metro area has ~3 million souls) Sometimes I sort of forget that there are lots and lots of people here, but on days like today, I remember.
Hopefully next week I can get back to my regular AM run schedule. Tomorrow AM I am going to try to watch the runners in the Kaohsiung International Marathon, though! I bet I will be able to see them right out the window as I drink my coffee! (If so, expect to see some pics here in the future.) I mistakenly wrote in a recent post that the marathon was Saturday morning - it's actually Sunday.
GJS
Hopefully next week I can get back to my regular AM run schedule. Tomorrow AM I am going to try to watch the runners in the Kaohsiung International Marathon, though! I bet I will be able to see them right out the window as I drink my coffee! (If so, expect to see some pics here in the future.) I mistakenly wrote in a recent post that the marathon was Saturday morning - it's actually Sunday.
GJS
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
2010 Mizuno Kaohsiung International Marathon (2010 Mizuno 高雄國際馬拉松)
via twsport.net
The city's marathon is coming up this Saturday morning. Looks like the route goes right through our neighborhood, so I won't have to go far to see the runners. Perhaps next year I can be one of them...
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