C H Wood

C H Wood

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Adventures during Chusak - Part I in Travel JoeUser Forums

Our new Motto " It's Korea, Why Not?" Hello all! So we are back from our six day vacation on the lovely island of Jeju. Chris is grateful that this week is only a one day work week because we ran around so much for the six days. I am going to divide our island get away into two blogs for the sake of the the amount we have to cover and the craziness involved in our trip. During this trip the Germans and ourselves developed a new motto that a

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Reply to Stardock Positions available in Work Reports JoeUser Forums

The other side of the pond, although I'll soon be relocating to sunny southeastern Michigan.... Not sure who my dentist will be there. I can give you a couple of options for a dentist if you let me know which city you are relocating to.

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Happy Meal? in Humor JoeUser Forums

One of the things in Korea that is really popular is the idea of the combo meal. Combo anything really. Buy something get something free or at a discount. The only difference is that instead of calling them combos, they are usually called "sets". That's cool. You order your burger set, you get the drink and potatoes as well. Easy, right? This can apply at other restau

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Life on the 9th floor in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

The long awaited daily living article has arrived. I know I promised cartoon characters and road signs. But the requests have been made by the reading audience so the driving signs and characters will have to wait. Besides, Chris and I want to gather more pictures of goofy characters. As a first time apartment renter, my experience has been good so far. Unlike in the US the neighbors are not really noisy except for the children practicing piano or violin or

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Reply to Down and Out in America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Gideon, I have a aunt that I remember as a kid living in a tent at a state park in southern Michigan for about a year with eight children. She pulled out of it. One of her kids is now a doctor, one is working as an IT person in a hospital, one is a HR person for an Automotive supplier, three are tradesman, one is an office person in a good sized company, and one is working general labor. I know it sucks to be in this position. But it's always i

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Reply to Kerry the Chameleon in Politics JoeUser Forums

I respect your views Jill and I am a democrat. And you can pick on me for it if you'd like. Oh wait, you and your hubby already do and I take it well from my republican counterweights .

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Reply to Going for the Olympic-watching gold in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

Yeah, bad manners is pretty universal. Funny you mention that, however. I was in the UK for some former Olympics (Atlanta? I don't recall) and I was really bummed by the total lack of interest at the time. It seemed like you got the 20 minute round-up and that was it. Really poor. Maybe they got more into it since then; maybe I just couldn't find it on the channels. Interesting, though.

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Reply to Going for the Olympic-watching gold in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

See, this is why I figured I didn't even qualify on the Olympic-watching gold. I knew who the real medalists are..... I was hoping to see some fencing myself. I think they showed it here, but at crazy hours of the night again. Bummer.

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Reply to Around the world in slightly more then 80 days in Travel JoeUser Forums

Chiprj- Hey you got me beat on the states though. Of course my brother has both of us down , but he's crazy that way. Dave- Funny you say that. I was considering the very thing myself. And since China and Russia are close by now..... Hmmm. Maybe I should just go for % land mass conquered. Josh- I think you're on your own for that. You just need to learn some Java and I think you could carve out a whole new nitch...

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Culture Shock at the rest stop in Humor JoeUser Forums

This will be an odd article for most but I am going to write it anyways. The Korean public restroom. The public restroom can be a fascinating perspective into a culture. You can get a glimpse into the standards of cleanliness and the social standards of openness. Even western influence shows up in the bathrooms. As is inevitable with any country there are always things that give you the "OH! That's how they do that. o.k. I can go with the flow." For all you

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Reply to Creative Driving in Misc JoeUser Forums

Well, sure they have U-turns in the states, they just aren't usually legal. Here, no prob. Speed cameras I haven't seen too much in the US. Perhaps that's more of a western thing. The 'no left on green' is strange because there isn't any center red to remind you. It's just all green and yet everyone stops. Well, ok, the taxis and the buses will then drive around the stopped people to make the illegal left, but that's

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Reply to Creative Driving in Misc JoeUser Forums

Interesting. Actually I hadn't noticed the eye-contact thing yet. I'll have to give that a try. Although on the way home from work tonight, I noticed another thing. People here don't understand the concept of 'brights' on the headlights. As in, they drive around with their headlights on full beam all the time, regardless of on-coming traffic. Very annoying, especially on a rainy night, like tonight.

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Creative Driving in Misc JoeUser Forums

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Reply to "Chicken" or...do you want (hessitate) to eat the "bird" ? in Travel JoeUser Forums

Sounds like my last blog.... We're still trying to go the year without ordering dog by mistake. Actually pidgeon isn't that unusual. There's even an English word for it: Squab. I think every culture has it's great foods and it's truely questionable ones. I mean, I would eat squab any day over American pork

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Reply to Staying at Home Doesn't Make me a Door Mat in Marital Issues JoeUser Forums

Expat_Jac I happen to know Jill and her spouse very well and he does not just work eight hour days. When you are self employed no day is an eight hour day. I know this because I am the child of a self employed person who worked six to seven days a week for most of my childhood. And even on days when you think that you get the self employed person to just family something comes up. My dad made as much time as he could for us when we were kids and helped out where he could. As Jill's sp

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Reply to Seoul Train! in Travel JoeUser Forums

Hey I found a great link to get a better idea what one of the palaces looks like: http://www.ocp.go.kr/english/palace/pal_kpk.html They've got a map and a cool 3-D viewer as well. Check it out!

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Reply to Why as Americans we should speak up about TV programming in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I've heard Japanese TV can get kinda wild, but so far Korean TV seems very tame, even by American standards. I mean, they might be trash-talking each other on the 24-hour Go channel, but I don't get that impression. Most of the rest of the TV is news, learning English, home-shopping, US imports of some really bad stuff, soap operas, historical samurai style soap operas, video game channels, and lots more home-shopping. The only thing racy I've

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