SQJ Taipei

Angie’s mom is here for the 6th time and we are so glad to have her… Whe will be here for about 2 weeks. Unfortunately, our niece, Eden, did not receive her passport in time to come visit as planned. Hopefully she will have another opportunity.
Mimi’s visit also gives me an excuse to try out [...]

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I’m referring to this post about my boys’ fauxhawks.
If you are not the father of little boys and girls, you might not get this post at all…
BUT…
sometimes when your little girls ask you for things… you just can’t say no…
and…
sometimes you want your little boys to think you are cool.
Often, we end up being [...]

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UPDATE: a small addition has been added after the pictures and I added a link to the P-38
This holiday exists to remember those who have fallen in military service to the United States. It is historically and appropriately apolitical but I’m sure that won’t keep people from trying to make it so and in so doing… [...]

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My nephew sent this to me… it is a hippo… a very rare hippo.

Rare indeed.

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After talking with Bart today, I decided that I needed to start a new series of posts dedicated to the funky English slogans found on scooters here in Taiwan.
I don’t know how many I’ll do… but this post numbering scheme will allow me up to 99 and that should be enough.
I might be able to [...]

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This is a GREAT book.
I am saddened when I see such a divide between Christian and secular art. I don’t see why each can’t stand on its own…
I’m not trying to criticize people and companies who run Christian bookstores… because they have filled a need… a gap in the marketplace.
Why am I mentioning all this?
Leif [...]

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Zach’s birthday was on May 7th… my present to him was an overnight camping trip. Since we live on the edge of the city, all we had to do was drive about 15 minutes and we were at a great campsite with a rushing river and a swimming pool and places to hike and bike… [...]

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to post pictures…
but I’m not liking it…
better than nothing though…
more to come…

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You’ve probably heard of Wikipedia. If not, you might want to check it out. You have to be careful, but you always do on the internet…
I’m not sure if they spawned the prefix WIKI- or not… but they’ve at least popularized it greatly.
I was looking through some old bookmarks today and found a pretty cool [...]

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Well… the transfer has happened.
I lost my most recent blog post in the transfer and I can’t seem to upload pictures… but it does seem like the blog is in tact except for those 2 issues. I’ll try to get the problems fixed quickly as I have lots of posts with pictures ready to post!

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