Sponsor a Child

This is not your mother's Sally Struthers. Get with the 21st, let go of the media all time high rate of making bad news travel faster.
Let the sun shine in! From the sunny shores of that precious little dragon, the isle de Formosa, the breath taking country of Taiwan.
Forget jobless, mentor a child and re-live your youth. Live in the past and make the future bright. For the low low price of 100usd a month. You can sponsor a privileged child. One with a future, mountains of homework, clear goals for the next 18 years. Non-emaciated, with friends, fancy cars, and oodles of cash to spend on video games,dental work and fast food.
For the low price you can attach yourself to something bright and happy. Completely ignorant of war,poverty, CNN. A child who only knows Obama as some poor Black Kenyan, who became president.
Come on! You never wanted to look after your own, and sponsor a child at home. You have been reaching out for years. Bring those hands together. Unite with children who don't need your help. Change your thinking, send your money, Make the world bright.
Nothing cheap ever lasts! Spend 2000usd a year and get details like: Hand drawn self-portrait, responses to the FAQ , joy of knowing a child is using your money for extendend surrival in FPS games.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

I did not know this.

LEGEND HAS IT: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, one will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894).

Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names).

Ivo Bowls

Round these parts candlepin bowling is just called bowling.

We took Ivo bowling on his 4th birthday.

Ivo bowl
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Deep Sea Diving

I haven't been diving in ages.

I'd love to go again sometime

I'll never dive to these depths

where the bioluminescent beings thrive

Amazing footage.

Try to pick out the octopus in the last clip.

Smokin in NB

Bread smokes Camels.

I'm on du Mauriers.

We smoked a lot when he was here.

Smoke breaks in Arctic weather

make you really appreciate

warm socks

'Bulletproof Paper Is Stronger Than Kevlar'

Finally, nanopaper bitch slaps Kevlar.

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Christmas Dinner

Yeah there were a few comments like:

When did we do this last?

Where is the fancy dinning table and chairs?

You made nice mashed potatoes!

The troop was smaller, 3 sisters, 2 kids, and a date.

I have to admit I was thrilled to do something fun.

If I thought he'd show I would have called up someone with an appetite and a thirst for vodka.

Grand total of 9 people.

death star canteen

Death Star Canteen in Lego-Land

Driving Downhill

Pic (A). Cost 1600nt$

Pic (B) Cost 1600 nt$

The fun part is that one pic came on Tuesday and one came on wednesday.

Thursday I was nervous.

Wifey said "I told you to slow down!". I would have if someone had told me there is a big sign in Chinese saying Traffic camera. OR I made the leap from "slow down" to the camera will take your picture.

This is a down hill stretch after leaving the freeway. The limit was 60 and I was coasting at 73 and 75. SHIT!

et aussi

more permanent snow

Boys' First Snow

This happened a few weeks ago.

It's hard to see but the snow was in the air.

It didn't stick.

More recent pics to come shortly.

Stimulus package for Taiwan

Money money and I qualify because I am a foreign spouse. I will get 3600 nt from the government. I was so thrilled I agreed to hand the money over to the wifey.

The department of transportation wants to give me a Taiwan license. But I am not from Saskatchewan, Quebec, B.C. or Ontario. So maybe a "yes" oh "no". There was a big chit chat about my international license issued from Moncton, N.B. They struggled to understand me.(who doesn't)

They asked me if MON-TON is MON-TAN-A. And then the clerk shook her head and said "Oh no USA." After consultation with her supervisor she wanted to know what is this N.B. I then explained that is New Brunswick. How about looking at this one that says Nova Scotia. The more I spoke the better their English got. And then like MAGIC , they sent me to another office and asked if they could speak to my wife.

Skunks

We had a skunk living in our yard all fall so we learned lots about them.

I think this show would be popular with the kiddies in Taiwan.
(esp. since the raging success of KUNG FU PANDA).

It's SKUNK FU! (intro)



A longer clip here.

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snowfall imminenter

Snow shut down the Cobequid Pass in NS yesterday. A couple of trucks jack knifed. Response from the province was abysmally slow. 12-16 hour waits. Stranded motorists could have used this product.

Listed at 29.95 in the L.L. Bean catalogue -

Snow Castle/Snowball Maker set

These fun tools let kids build their own snow forts and fill them with perfect snowballs. Set includes two snowball makers, two block makers and one turret maker. USA. WJ55756 $29.95

I still say hands and imadginashhunn.

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snowfall imminent

Sandy pointed out a snowball making kit in a flyer the other day.

S: Wouldn't this be great?

R: You mean for the kids?

S: Yeah!

R: I always thought they could just do it the old fashioned way.

S: The old fashioned way?

R: Yeah, you know, with hands and imagination.

S: We're not talking about your alone time here