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japanese, one kanji at a time — anki, ajatt, tim ferriss, and benny lewis

On January 30, 2013 · 2 Comments · In adventures

I was joking the other day about learning Japanese because we spent last Wednesday learning the hiragana on the ipad—but look at us, here we are a week later still at it, clocking about 20 kanji a day and up to about a hundred now.  It’s fun, like learning a pretty code, or a kind [...]

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i think i’m turning japanese

On January 23, 2013 · 5 Comments · In adventures, reviews

Not really, but last night I dreamed that I was in Japan looking around in this numinously cute clothing store where everything was incredibly appealing, only I had not enough yen for even one item.  SOB.  But when I woke up, the kids and I softly chatting in bed before we had hardly opened our [...]

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the escalating expense of leveling up, or, we just got a HD TV!

On January 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In adventures, geeklife

So.  We needed to pay the property tax on the truck, which in North Carolina is linked to the truck inspection, and, turns out, in order to pass inspection the truck needed new tires.  Dammit.  But Paul called around and found the best deal on tires to be CostCo (a membership only mega-store I’ve never [...]

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beware the haunted bus

On October 28, 2012 · 4 Comments · In adventures

You might recall we bought a 68 Chevy short bus this summer.  Well…we have reason to believe it’s…haunted.

I mean, look who is driving it.

Here, he’ll open the door for you.  Go on in.  Maybe.

The greeters…

Some of the other passengers….

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characters for an epic tale UPDATED now with bunnies!

On October 3, 2012 · 3 Comments · In adventures

Michele, a regular commenter here at mayaland, sent me this wonderful image and we discovered, quite by accident, that if you print it out, you can use it as a gameboard for your very own Epic Adventure.  Woo hoo! We put little people (army men, in this case) on “the hero” in [...]

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luc’s flowers

On September 18, 2012 · 1 Comment · In adventures

I found these pics on the camera when cleaning out the memory card, some pretty shots that I totally did not recognize. The kids finally IDed them as the local Botanical Gardens some time this summer, and with that I remembered Luc carring around the camera, taking dozens of shots. Sometimes he takes forty blurry [...]

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speedpainting

On September 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In adventures

A speedpainting—that’s right, I’m using it as a noun, but it can also be a verb—is the time-lapse video documentation of an artist at work. It can also refer to when the artist paints very fast, but that’s not what I’m talking about. In digital art a speedpainting is a capture of the artist’s screen [...]

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mushroom hunting

On September 6, 2012 · 1 Comment · In adventures

A friend of ours is a mushroom hunter.  We discovered this because at a party we held here at the yurt—and we knew it was a successful party because no one would go home—we ran out of food.  Rather than panicking, our mushroom loving friend pulled Paul aside and they went out into the forest [...]

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our newest crazy adventure

On July 30, 2012 · 3 Comments · In adventures, alternative building

We just bought a school bus!  A turquoise 1968 Chevy Short Bus, to be exact.  What the–?

Here it is at its old home.

It still drives!  Sort of.  But for a few hundred dollars, we get a whole room to add to our compound of tiny buildings.  A room on [...]

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i heart the outer banks

On July 11, 2012 · 4 Comments · In adventures

Guess where I’ve been?

Come on, it’s just a little further, just over the top of this walk way, follow those munchkins….

Okay, I’ll show you.  Here:

The North Carolina Outer Banks are my favorite [...]

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