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Looking over my last few posts, I guess I forgot to mention something. At the end of July, I moved back to Terre Haute. Hence the griping about ISPs and the almost inexcusably long delay in relocating and repairing this site. I'm in an apartment complex that is less than ten minutes from Rose. I imagine 97% of you would know immediately where it is if you heard the name. It's thirty minutes to work on a good day, and an hour on a bad day.

I like it here.

Now I really should be leaving for work. Hooray for shortened days.

I'm about four clicks away from ordering the original original Star Wars trilogy on DVD. Amazon has them for a relatively cheap price. I avoided buying them the first time the crapped-up versions came out, don't really care to see the other three movies ever again, and don't have any interest in getting a high-def format if it comes out later. So I'm getting them now, and it will be the last time my money is shelled out for anything from that source.

One other item to note: now that the upgrade is done, comments are back on. Howerver, I'm afraid that moving things around did bork the RSS feed. I've put in a support ticket with livejournal (the only other place I know of that carried the feed) to that end. Hopefully, it will only take a few days for them to switch over.

I screwed some things up just now. [Edit: in less than a week, I got around to fixing them. With any luck, I'll get back to posting regularly.]

Ahh, sweet internet again! Long story short, Verizon has the most abysmal customer service I've ever had the misfortune to experience. After a week of fighting with them to get my service working, first ahead of time, then on time, then resignedly past due time, I told them to shove it. I called Time Warner Monday morning. It is now slightly past a quarter to one on Friday, and I'm up and running. Suck it, Verizon.

Why the hell does it take Verizon TWENTY DAYS to have a computer register a DSL order, print a label, have someone slap the label on a box of equipment, and ship it to me by UPS? That could be a completely automated process; how many orders do they have to be backed up by to take TWENTY freaking days? (The usual wait is supposed to be five!?) If cable internet didn't cost three times as much per month, I'd just order that and let them race to be the first to get me connected. Twenty days to put a damn mailing label on a box.... bah.

I'm really tired of the spam. Blacklist used to at least put it back for moderation, but now that's broken. I don't have time now or anytime this month to deal with it, so I'm shutting down comments until sometime in August when I get to upgrading Movable Type. I'm sorry.

Send me an email in the meantime.

Thanks to one of two KT America calling cards I got at Am-Ko last week, I was able to call and talk to Chun Sun for a couple of hours this morning. Then I went to Terre Haute to get a haircut and see about a Rose-Hulman license plate.

On my way back to Third Street on Wabash, I found an Asian market in downtown Terre Haute. It's seems a little small, until you realize it's located in Terre Haute[6]. They have foodstuffs from several parts of Asia, so each country has a stand of shelves with food particular to it, and that's about it. Upon checking out [0], I was informed that they have a cooking class once a month where you go in and pay $15 to learn to cook three dishes and then sit and eat them and talk, so I might go in July if schedules permit.

I caught them the day before the delivery truck usually comes, so I didn't buy any fresh vegetables. However, I did get a few cold things and some bottled sauces, so tonight I'll be having 불고기 bulgogi[1] with some 오징어채 ojingo chae[2], 두부 dubu[3], and 김치 kimchi[4] as 반찬 banchan[5].

Tomorrow, it's off to Michigan to visit my parents and sister for a couple of days.

[0]The owner was a very friendly[7] older lady
[1]AKA Korean barbecue
[2]fried squid, but this brand is impregnated with a garlic, sugar, and pepper sauce
[3]You know it as tofu. It's the soft kind.
[4]pickled napa (Chinese cabbage)
[5]side dishes
[6]a "city" in a region of Indiana not particularly known for its diverse population
[7]especially once I started asking about Korean foods that they didn't have in yet

It's time for another picture. This one was taken at a palace in Seoul that was used off and on as a residence for various Korean princes and kings. Once the brochure is located, more information will be forthcoming.

Jennifer is right, I did promise pictures. For now, though, picture will have to do -- more later. The overexposure is due to it being a nighttime shot.

The stream is a recently cleaned up (read de-polluted) and landscaped attraction in Seoul; TIME Asia just had an article about it in the last month or so (found here).

Been back for a few days. Really wish I could have gotten back on a plane to Seoul and stayed there. Will discuss trip at length later this week. Caught some nasty respiratory thing on the plane. Miserable. Hate snot and phlegm. My own body is trying to drown me. Not sure where it is getting all this fluid from without severe dehydration setting in yet. Doctor tomorrow. Drugs. Good grugs drugs. Soon.

I had something put together about how work was and where i'm going but it was eaten by the Nothing.

shorthand:

• work ok but not great
• promotion to desired position soonish
• flying to Seoul via Tokyo from Chicago Wednesday afternoon
• back in 2 weeks
• new camera, should have lots of pictures on return

If I remember correctly, there is a wedding going on today in Fort Wayne. I received an invitation and intended to reply in the affirmative, but between my own clumsiness and a relationship-induced snafu, the reply was never sent. The next best thing I can think of is the following:

Herb and Karen, I wish you both a long and happy life together.