Once in a blue moon, there is a BIG snow in Seattle, as it happened yesterday. The kids had fund with the heavy snow, and missed the school for the second day... http://news.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-braces-for-snowstorm-1326836522-slideshow/pedestrians-navigate-snow-downtown-seattle-during-rush- ...
You probably know about the TGIF (Thank God It's Friday). Well, I do like Fridays, but I love Saturdays and Sundays, TGIS (Thank God It's Saturday, or Sunday). Especially this weekend, I needed these two extra days to beat some deadlines of editing. I was lucky t ...
Sorry about the fancy word that even some native English speakers may not know, because it’s used by French for cooking. I learned it only last night, when I tried to teach an American friend how to make a Chinese noodle dish that requires cucumber julienne. (We can still call them cu ...
Every month, on the first working day, such as today, Jan. 3rd, at 11:45 am a siren will go off. It is to test the emergency alert system for the state. Yes, we live in a paradise, but we are not always safe...
Alaska Airlines flight #864 is 60% on time. This morning, it is delayed by 300 minutes! I know somebody was happy to go back to sleep (yeah, at 6am, I would, too). But, a lot of tourists are probably very unhappy now, since they already checked out of their hotels and headed t ...
So, what am I supposed to do when there are five manuscripts waiting for me to go through? Well, I started with the 7,000-word paper, and got very bored after a while. Why? I have to add a lot of "the" and delete a lot of "the." For a change, I started editing another paper's figure captions. This ...
is to have 30 minutes of free time to walk my walk every day. Otherwise, I may end up gaining 3 lbs in 2012, which may not be a big deal to some people but means new clothes (=$$$)... What's your wish?
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