Last night the Boddhisattva and the Woodland Creature came down for the weekend — lovely to see them, also a pleasant reminder that it is much nicer to see friends when one doesn’t live with them. We went for lunch to the nearby noodle spot, slightly better than adequate this time, and then on to […]
A little sheepish
Sheepishly, last night, I admitted to the GF the existence of this blog. Though I did not admit just how long it has existed, but allowed him to discover it for himself. So, hello, my first and only confirmed reader (other than myself). I shall pretend you do not exist. He also pointed out that […]
Least, most, best, worst
A curiosity of Americans is that they much always be the most or least. The best, but if not the best, they are the absolute worst. This strikes me quite often on Metafilter, but most recently during a discussion of the caste system in India which, for a while, became a discussion of how the […]
Northern district
This morning we went for an American brunch. It was not bad, nothing to our meal yesterday. Run by a Taiwanese-American and with plenty of other Taiwanese-Americans filling the tables, and the decor and feel was also very American. The GF had a French toast with hash browns, salad and an egg; I had a […]
A new star
It was not turning 40 that has brought home to me how old I am but the fact that is the third time in my lifetime that the revelation of Ophiuchus as a constellation displacing Sagittarius has rocked the world. Truly there is nothing new under the sun. Speaking of which – this was a […]
Third time lucky
Today, our third attempt was successful. The first two had been during the week in which I absconded, to go to a tiny Japanese restaurant with 10 seats, which we had heard was very good but didn’t take bookings. The first time, we arrived before it opened and found it shut. Instead, we found another […]
Buddha vs stegosaur
This morning we hired a car and driver and went to Fo Guang Shan, a large monastery and Buddhist site outside Kaohsiung and home of the world’s largest seated Buddha, as well as (it turned out) a menagerie of animatronic animals including a mooing stegosaurus. The place itself is immense, set on a hillside overlooking […]
Sporting excursion
This evening, we decided to go to a baseball match. Tainan’s own Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions were playing the Fubon Guardians, so we strolled down to the stadium and bought a pair of tickets for the home side. It was a warm evening, relatively few spectators, though the home side gradually filled up as time went […]
Earning their keep
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Tainan at last
We came to Tainan last night, at last by ourselves for a short while. In the morning I went to collect the GF’s birthday present – I’ve rented a Playstation for a month and bought him The Last of Us II, a game he dearly wanted to play. It was a bit of a hassle: […]