my crazy week

julianna | April 27, 2008

It is Sunday night at 11:37. A while back someone asked me what I did with my time, since I didn’t work and got to stay home all day. At the time I had a hard time explaining how my days really were full, even though they always seemed to be. I [...]

Junior Ranger

DL | April 27, 2008

Reposting Seth’s swearing-in ceremony, since the original post got accidentally deleted or something.
View it after the fold so it doesn’t automatically load on the front page. [9 MB]

Cindy Lauper

DL | April 27, 2008

OK, so I’m a little youtube happy. Get over it.
Hat tip to Cory and Nicky for finding this!
Japanese We Are the World look-alikes:

National songs

DL | April 27, 2008

OK, I’ve decided that the best European national song is from Wales. Although not a fully independent nation-state, it has put forth enough effort on this one to count.
Creative incorporation of the lyrics on this video makes it fun to follow along, though no more pronounceable:

Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

I was expecting something good [...]

keeping up…

julianna | April 22, 2008

okay, so danny has been carrying the burden of keeping this blog current. i’m repenting and resolving to share a little something once a week. i always have grandiose ideas of pictures i want to upload and can’t imagine the post without them. i’ve decided that if i readjust my expectations of [...]

Stationery Quest

DL | April 22, 2008

[UPDATED BELOW - UPDATE II BELOW]
Does anyone write letters any more? With pen and paper?
I still write to a few people in Japan, people for whom e-mail does not exist and for whom typewritten or computer printed correspondence lacks the humanity necessary to dignify an actual letter. It’s still a pretty traditional [...]

Silly girl

DL | April 21, 2008

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require_once(ABSPATH.’/wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum.php’);
global $falbum;
?>
<phpcode>
<?php echo $falbum->show_random(2,’laura_bath’,0,’m’) ;?>

NHK

DL | April 21, 2008

This month I ordered the Japanese channel. 24 hours of quality programming from NHK, the national broadcaster. Another chance for my long-suffering wife to show me how patient she can be while I catch every show I can on the Tivo before the month is up.
But how else would I have discovered these?
JERO
A [...]

T-ball

DL | April 6, 2008

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require_once(ABSPATH.’/wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum.php’);
global $falbum;
?>
We’re all A’s fans now!
<phpcode>
<?php echo $falbum->show_random(4,’t-ball’,0,’m’) ;?>

My friends

DL | April 6, 2008

I was trying to keep Princess Pi quiet so we were walking around outside while we were visiting Utah a couple of weeks ago. An older couple pulled up in their car and began to get out, but we paid them no mind and walked right on by.
PP seemed confused for a minute [...]