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How to host a beer tasting tournament
In a few days I turn 38. Pepper asked what I would like to do to celebrate and we decided to host a beer tasting. Her sister had taken part in a similar event which gave us the idea. We have hosted beer tastings before such as a vertical tasting of Alaskan Smoked Porters from …
WordPress blog hacked
Quite a few weeks ago I noticed a few things amiss on my blog. Then one day my mom said that the site was down entirely. I contacted my host and they indicated that my .htaccess file was the problem so they renamed it. The site came back up. But some of the problems I …
A rough day
We woke this morning and it was really quiet. Really quiet. No hum of the fridge, nothing. Power out. I looked outside and the State Department Store was out too. Surely they would have the right phone numbers and clout to make sure it wasn’t a long outage. But for a little while I thought …
Mojito?
This is supposed to be a mojito. You wouldn’t like mojito when he’s angry. I don’t recall exactly where this was but it was during our winter break. It wasn’t terribly good.
Bacon flavored Spam?
I am not one to critique the use of bacon as a flavor to enhance foods. And honestly it has been a very long time since I have eaten any canned meat products. But Jordan’s expression mirrors my feelings on this.
Bowling in PE class
I have one elective class of 11th and 12th grade students. Today was their last day of class with me for health and physical education. So I arranged for the kids to get out of their classes that follow PE and the class went bowling. We played two games and had lunch before heading back …
Getting a Chinese visa…
On Friday I went to the Chinese embassy here in Ulaanbaatar. I need to get a visa because I am headed to Suzhou in a week and a half. I will be a chaperone for our basketball team that is playing in our division tournament there. There are two forms I have to fill out. …
Winter weather in the coldest capital city
Ulaanbaatar can be cold. Sure, I have spent the last 15 years in Alaska so you might think that I am accustomed to cold weather. But I was in coastal Alaska. Here the weather is more like Fairbanks. Summer can be quite warm. But now? We’re hitting into the 40s. Minus forties. When we ask …
This is frost built up…
I took a few pictures that show frost built up on the inside of our apartment building entrance. The wind blows in here fairly strong.
Four reasons I’m glad it is freezing out
Yeah… we were on a vacation to some nice warm places. And now we are back to temperatures well below freezing. So I have been seeking the silver lining. 1 – No biting insects. No mosquitoes. No flies landing on my ankles or to shoo off my food. This really is a blessing. You know …
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