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We hope that you and your family can get together and have some fun this weekend. I’ve taken a little time off work and we are doing some exploring. Yesterday it was Yang Ming Shan - today it was Neidong National Forest. I’ve put a few of the pictures from today up on Flicker. Tomorrow [...]

After an afternoon of play Fran and I stopped at an "International" store and found a few of the comfort foods we sometimes splurge on. I’m curious about whether I’ve just lost touch with the cost of things or are the cost of western goods just really ridiculously high here in Taipei. Look at this [...]

China demolishes mosque for not supporting Olympics
Mon Jun 23, 3:56 AM ET
Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August’s Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.(click HERE to go to full story)
I picked this up from a [...]

A friend of ours shared a nifty link with us. I think it deserves to be shared others Instead of just mentioning it in a blog post where it will eventually be buried by newer posts, I’ve placed it in the sidebar, that strip on the left that contains things that are always there. [...]

As I was sitting at a Pizza Hut having dinner last night it struck me again how different our lives are today. While raising our children neither of us would have imagined that we could possibly be living where we live, doing the work we do now. It is truly mind-boggling!
We left our apartment (hadn’t [...]

Sorry for the lull in new entries. Fran and I have been extra busy with end-of-the-BSF-year “stuff”. I’m completely finished now and Fran just has a couple of meetings and some admin things to wrap up before the Matthew study is completed.
I’ve finally gotten the WordPress blogging software updated to the latest release. It has [...]

I had just thought that it was because I was a country bumpkin moved to the BIG city. Since moving here years ago we’ve really been impressed with Taipei’s subway system. What the linked article fails to mention, which just sweetens the deal, is the bus system that connects to the subway. All in [...]