T minus 25 days

Travel itinerary is starting to shape up for the trip home. Here’s your first look at our plan. The only things written in stone other than our arrival-departure schedule is the dental appointment, and the flight to Chiangmai. Thu. Nov. 18 – Depart LAX at 11:30 p.m. 2.5 hour layover in Taipei. Sat. Nov. 20 – Arrive in Bangkok around 11 a.m. Dad should be back from an urban design conference in Beijing that same day if not the day before. Sun. Nov. 21 – Brandon’s dental appointment in the morning. Yes. Dentist. Dental works in Thailand is as good...
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Cyclops – Part II

So I went to my doctor who sent me off to an eye specialist to look deelply into my eye to make sure nothing else was left in there. The eye doctor looked, dilated my left eye, and looked some more. There is absolutely nothing left in there. What I’m feeling is the part of my eye that actualy got minorly scratched. But it is nothing serious. The eye will heal in a few days. (Note: The doctor turns out to be a fellow Trojan! Not too much awkward silence while waiting for my eye to dilate there as we...
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Cyclops

Almost lost an eye sewing last night. Yes. Sewing. I was working on Shane’s Sam Adams vest last night. I had to learn to sew the button hole before actually doing it on the vest, and so I had to change the presser foot, the part the hold the garment down for the sewing machine, to use the button hole guide. Somehow I managed to lose the original foot in the process. So I put in another foot that the manual said is used to sewing more delicate/slippery fabric, selected straight stitch, and hit the pedal. Apparently, I didn’t dial...
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Scapers REJOICED!

Farscape came back and kicked some ass! Behold the power of rabid fans who are totally media savvy…and have money to spend. (Read that, potential sponsors? MONEY TO SPEND.) Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars gloriously returned one of the best damn sci-fi/space opera show ever to the network that abandoned them over 2 years ago all because the campaigns by the fans around the world. Big hoorah for all involved!! Especially Scapers who have worked so frelling hard to get our beloved show back on air. We earned it, brothers and sisters. All the loose ends are tied…well, sort of. 😉...
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