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A site stat checkup
I used to check on my site’s statistics every week. It has been over three years since I peeked at them all so let’s see what changed in the three years… Here is where things were in July of 2008: 1,680 posts Comments – the new WordPress UI doesn’t make this easy to find! Technorati …
Avoiding being a victim at UB’s black market
Today we went to the black market. I like to go there. It is chaotic, the people watching is great and the things you can buy there are amazing. We browsed through dozens of stalls looking at used shoes and boots. Think of this place as a giant flea market although most areas the vendors …
Saving money in Mongolia
One of the reasons that we decided to take jobs teaching in Mongolia was because it was a wise financial move. With the job market too uncertain back home having a two year contract for both of us was a good move. But there are all sorts of other financial benefits that are showing up… …
Tidbits from Mongolia
Today was the first day of work. We met a number of new and veteran teachers during the day. In Petersburg there were some people I saw weekly for over a decade and I still had a hard time remembering their names… So I’m making a huge effort to get names right and remember them. …
Experiences during our first few days in Mongolia
We have been meeting some of the other new teachers as well as some teachers that have been here prior over the past few days. Yesterday a bus from the school took us to the black market – one of the largest in Asia. I used to think of an underground shady scene where Russians …
The move to Mongolia
We had Jerod and Melinda help us haul bags to the airport on Sunday morning. Since we sold our car earlier in the week, Rachel was carting us around and so we had an automatic going-away-party as well as extra bodies to help shuffle the 15 bags we checked. Apparently the scale we used wasn’t …
The storage building roof
Just over a week ago I had Mike here and Keith and Sarah came over to help Pepper and I with a day of work on the storage building and shop. I had a manlift and good weather. I started by working on the roof. Sarah cut pieces of metal as Mike controlled the lift …
Storage building and shop – second floor and roof
I took some time off on Thursday and Friday to take advantage of a lack of rain. We had the front and back walls of the second floor go up and we framed one of the end walls once we had the rafters. The back wall height allows the siding to hang down to the …
Day 20 – May 25, 2011 – Rome
Our last day in Italy and we had a few of the more distant sites to see. We really should have learned the bus schedule but we stuck to taxis and the subway system. We walked a LOT this day. Unfortunately the two catacombs we went to you are not allowed to take pictures of …
Day 19 – May 24, 2011 – Rome
We somehow managed to wait a few days before hitting the Colosseum. It was a hot day for us to walk around the Forum too. And we hit the Pantheon too. We used the subway quite a bit but also did a heck of a lot of walking. We couldn’t miss the Capuchin Crypt‘s morbid …
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