Happy Thanksgiving

Having family around a table, with a feast before you, is a very special. I always looked forward to Thanksgiving dinner with the families and to Christmas with the tree and decorations, and the presents.

We are going to try to recreate a taste of the holidays this year in our tiny little apartment. We will see how well that all goes. The Army base in Yongsan provides a service. They will prepare a Turkey or Ham dinner for 10 people for a reasonable price. It is a pretty good deal.

We are going to decorate the apartment as best we can with our Christmas decorations and make things as nice as possible for everyone.

We are also hoping to see the new film, A Christmas Carrol sometime in the evening (hope the English is not dubbed over!).

What ever you are doing, I hope you have a nice thanksgiving.

Made in China

Made In China

We are really starting to get cold here. We've bought a portable space heater. It works pretty well, but it is not fun dragging it from room to room.

It cost about half the price of the comparable coil-air blown counterpart, and is rated as using about half the electricity. It is good for a single room of decent size, and is more than enough on half power for a smaller room.

I want to say that this is an original product of China-not a clone, a copy or manufacturing ripoff, but honestly I don't know. It runs about $50US (330 RMB, 56KWon).

This week temps have risen back into the 40s. Hopefully we will have another month of mildly cold temperatures before is drops below freezing for the duration.

Winter is a dreary time, it seems. It is much nicer in pictures and movies than in reality.

Asan No More?

I've made the jump from Danjin and headed over to Asan.  It is hard to move once you get settled in a certain place.  I still make it back to Dangjin and I will for the forseeable future, but I'm now in Asan for as long as that lasts. 

The powers that be are rumbling about merging Cheonan and Asan into on metropolis...will it be Chasan or Aseonan?

Asan/Cheonan is a better place to live than Dangjin in some ways. We are 10 minutes from the KTX, and from there 20 minutes from Seoul or Daejeon.  That is pretty nice.  That said, the traffic in Cheonan is rediculous-a constant reminder of why I don't like cities.

There are some nice advantages.  The new job is great. I haven't had a bad day yet, and I remember it was sometimes hard to find a good day at my last job. I guess where you work really does matter.