Day: December 22, 2022

Caveat: Tree: 1426 “Snowy day along Ilsan-ro”

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / Life in Korea / My Photos

This tree is a guest tree from my past. 10 years ago, next week, on December 28, 2012, I took this picture in my neighborhood in Goyang City, South Korea. It was snowing.

A picture taken in 2012 along a city street called Ilsan-ro in Goyang City, South Korea. Snow, some urban trees without leaves, lots of buildings along each side.

Art and I went to town today for our shopping day, and spent some time at the Veterans center, too – longer than usual. Art normally just drops in there if he chooses to go there at all (it’s open every Thursday), but today he seemed inclined to hang out for a while.

The road to town continues to be horrible. It’s like doing a bobsled course in the car, between about 6 mile and 8 mile – pure ice.

picture[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]

Caveat: 쌀떡볶이

Banalities & Journaling / Life in Korea / Working at the Gift Shop

The gift store owner, Chad, is aware of my background as a former resident of Korea. He and his wife apparently have membership in some kind of international junk food subscription service. It’s kinda of eccentric and cool.

So they bring in to me, the other day, this box full of Korean junk food – the kind you’d see at any 7-11 in South Korea. There were these one snacks in that box that I remember buying quite regularly in the store in the first floor of my apartment building: 쌀떡볶이 [ssaltteokbokki]. It was quite amazing, to get a package of these in Craig, Alaska.

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So I got them and ate them, and it made me nostalgic.

Chad and Kristin are very cool bosses.

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