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2008-11-18T23:06:09Z

Veteran's Day

2008-11-11T10:30:56Z

To all active and former members of the United States Military: Thank you.

Maintenance complete

2008-10-20T12:46:59Z

Comments are again possible, and the backend storage method has been updated. If I get the time I hope to upgrade my MovableType version in the next few months, but that's always been a painful process for me.

Homecoming

2008-10-01T19:52:08Z

Is anyone who reads this planning on being at homecoming this year? I always see people I know, but the number tapers off each year.

Brushing off the cobwebs

2008-09-24T23:32:41Z

Hey, whaddaya know? The lights still work around here, although a few bulbs could stand changing.

Anyway, I will probably be close to home with free time on my hands a little more often in the near future, so maybe I can type some new life into this place. Also, a rather restrictive - in terms of my IP rights, i.e., I don't have any currently - agreement is due to lift from my shoulders at the end of the year, so I should probably get ready to speak again in the meantime.

Many things have changed since I was last heard from, and some are still the same. We'll see what happens. At the very least, it will be less than a year and a half before my next post. (I couldn't believe it's been that long.)

still alive

2007-05-28T11:47:35Z

Sorry for not posting/calling/emailing much, everybody. Between married life at home and a swing shift schedule at work (where someone always finds something to turn into a world-ending big deal), I have been hard put to keep up with much else.

Things are going well, Chunsun and I have an interview about her green card coming up in the next month, and we just bought sleeping bag for her and a tent so we can go camping this summer if the opportunity arises.

The Next Step

2007-01-08T12:55:36Z

With apologies to anyone I have not already contacted, I have two announcements:

Chunsun and I are getting married in the legal sense this afternoon in Urbana at the Champaign County courthouse at 12:30.
Assuming all the people[1] and paperwork manage to be sorted out properly, we will be having a ceremony[0] in White Chapel on the 25th of this month at approximately 2 pm. That's a Thursday.

Again, if I have neglected to inform anyone previously, I apologize. Invitations[2] have been going out by phone when I'm not at work, and this has probably been the most hectic two or three weeks I've had in a long time at work and home.

[0] The White Chapel ceremony was intended to be the date of legal marriage as well, but we encountered a bureacratic roadblock to a timely Indiana marriage licence. Illinois is quite conveniently nearby.
[1] We are also waiting to hear if travel visas for her parents and brother will be issued in time. Apparently they will get them, but the issue date is, well, at issue.
[2] If you're someone who checks in on me here at least once in a while, you're most likely invited, but given the short notice, you may consider this an invitation if you so choose.

bleak is up from here

2006-10-31T01:18:38Z

I'm in the process of updating my resume so that I can circulate it and find another job. 95% of management from corporate down is either actively hostile or incompetently indifferent to the actual workforce on our site, and I can't take it anymore.

previous omission

2006-09-11T09:42:34Z

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.

Evil will always win, because good is dumb.

2006-09-10T21:49:26Z

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.

up and running

2006-09-02T00:32:39Z

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.]

reconnected

2006-08-25T16:47:41Z

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.

slower than a union shop

2006-08-02T21:22:01Z

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.

interruption of service

2006-07-20T11:07:51Z

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.

a new place to get food

2006-06-21T21:19:45Z

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], �?부 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