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They’ve added a class on Religion in Modern Asia which is, obviously, right up my alley. Regretfully (because it looks like a really cool class), I’ve had to drop Visual Evidence in Modern China for this. However, as a result of the reading assignment (just spent a couple days reading 100+ pages on visual culture), [...]

Depending on whether there’s a last minute change of course, we could be more or less directly in the path of Hurricane Ike this weekend. Suddenly, I’m not so happy about being next to a creek, or having that huge oak tree overhanging our roof.

…but somehow I get the sense that maybe Sachi isn’t quite as irritated about having Baltazar around, these days.

If you shove hard enough.

New dog/cat pix just uploaded.

On Christmas Night, we had an unexpected guest, and it looks like he’ll be returning to stay with us for good (or ill, but I expect mostly good).
Took nearly an hour of coaxing the boy to the house (yes, Odetta was used as bait), and then trying to get him to come farther into [...]

Late at night, I’m watching videos, reading a book, pondering kitchen stuff, whatever. There’s a half-full pack of cookies sitting on my desk.
Me: I think I’ll have a cookie.
Sachi: *pronk*
Me: My cookie.
Sachi: *pronk*
Me: No.
Sachi: *pronk*
Me: Do you want to go out?
Sachi: *sits*
Me: Okay, let’s go out. *gets up*
Sachi: *doesn’t move*
Me: Hunh, okay, no out. *sits [...]

First, our garage as it was, for the first year or so of living here:

Then we moved one of the kitchen base cabinets out to the garage…which eventually became my workshop area and general dump-everything space. Sigh.
After that hell-realization of my garage/workshop having been intruded-violated-theived, I began a furious double-reason attack on the space. [...]