Monthly Archives: July 2015

California

Posted on July 22, 2015 by d4vid

California, here we come.  Right back where we started from. I was kind of hoping this was the song that would greet me when I got off the plane at LAX.  Alas, this was what was actually playing on the P.A. … Continue reading →

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Deafening

Posted on July 19, 2015 by d4vid

The cicadas.  The cicadas. 

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Seasonal

Posted on July 12, 2015 by d4vid

How am I celebrating China’s Golden Week the first week in October?  By leaving and going to Japan.  Just booked a leisurely trip to Kyoto and (for my birthday) a small village called Nikko. But does anyone happen to know if … Continue reading →

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Particulates III

Posted on July 12, 2015 by d4vid

My living room & bedroom air filters — front and back — after 80 days.    Previous air filter check ins here and here.

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Typhoon

Posted on July 10, 2015 by d4vid

Fought my way through a typhoon to walk to the doctor’s office this morning.  Apparently, typhoon Chan-hom is named after a Laotian tree of some kind and not, as I had first thought, a minor member system of the United Federation … Continue reading →

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Summer

Posted on July 10, 2015 by d4vid

And what was on next as I flipped channels?  500 Days of Summer.  Now my lungs and heart ache.

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Noughties

Posted on July 9, 2015 by d4vid

I’m at home recovering from bronchitis, watching CCTV (as is my wont.)  In the middle of a documentary on mammals — just as they were putting a crow in an MRI machine — they started playing FC Kahuna’s “Hayling”.  The … Continue reading →

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Metastasis

Posted on July 7, 2015 by d4vid

Twenty years of Shanghai Metro development.

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Suffix

Posted on July 7, 2015 by d4vid

 Computers often confuse the suffix at the end of my name for my surname.  So I assume the nurse glanced at my medical chart and took Mr. IV to his private room.

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