Another quiet day

Spent today working and dodging the Chusok traffic. Chusok is Korea's Thanksgiving/harvest festival. There are about 45,000,000 South Koreans; 40,000,000 of them hit the road over the Chusok holiday. Traffic, which is normally not great (driving from Seoul to Pusan, the length of the country, late at night, on a weekday, takes about 4 hours... during Chusok, that trip takes 24 hours on the same road), becomes a nightmare few can conceive of. With careful scheduling (travel at the high points of the holiday when the Koreans are at wherever they all went, but before they are on the road home) you can get around it, and actually have the clearest roads you'll see all year... Finished up the first season of "The Shield"; I'll be picking up the 2nd season for this weekend. My wife and her sister get back from Canada tomorrow, so I'll be traveling to the airport to pick them up... I could end up caught in the tail end of the bad traffic because we can't really tailor the flight schedule for traffic avoidance... Oh well, she's worth sitting in traffic for for however long it takes!

Quiet day

It was a quiet day, spent mostly with the TV. I picked up the first season of "The Shield"; I hadn't had a chance to see it while I was in the states, but it looked interesting so I picked it up when I saw it on the shelf. I'll be picking up the second season as soon as I finish this one. It's kind of like the Sopranos meets NYPD Blue, but the main character in both is a cop... It's good stuff.

Darts

One of the things that is big over here for foreigners to do is to play in dart leagues. The biggest and best one is in Songtan (outside Osan AB), and I was a member of that league for a number of years, but there is also one in Seoul. Since I'm up here now, I'm on a team that plays out of a club in Itaewon. A couple of days ago we had one of our best nights this season, we won all but one game, and took a leg of that one too. A very good night was had...

Intro

I'm an American who has spent most of my adult life in Korea (13 years out of the last 18). My posts will reflect that, as I am still here; but that isn't my focus. This blog will be about anything that interests me, it's just that my background will have a major effect on what some of those things are. The name for this blog actually came to me in a dream (it was more like "one buffalo stampeding underground", but that seemed a little cumbersome). I hope people will enjoy my meandering thoughts...