Blog

You know how they use “ou” here in their spellings. Like “favourite”. You know what spelling I find most absurd here? Hoummous. I mean, come […]

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. That’s a reference to Guy Fawkes Day, something I knew almost nothing about save that it inspired the masks […]

Random: Index funds are called Tracker funds here. And they’re not called “motions” to worship songs, but “actions”. Also random: the vast majority of TV […]

They’ve started to put up Christmas decorations in London. As you may or may not know, I’m strongly against preparing for Christmas too early, early […]

Halloween here: seems like they celebrate it, but it’s not as big a deal as in the US. Kids had no themed activities at school […]

We spent last week in Korea, as both Jieun and my parents were there, and the kids had a week off from school. Not much […]

Already posted on Facebook, but this profile of Mr. Rogers is a really great read. It moved me almost to tears, and I found it […]

I’m kind of glad I’m distanced from the current election. I’ve come to dislike politics more and more. There were a few years recently when […]

More mostly uninteresting differences in being here. It’s weird watching the NFL in London. They show the US feeds (e.g. from Fox) but not completely […]

The UK’s philosophy on vaccinations is, to me, strange. For example, flu shots are only covered for the elderly, the pregnant, and the sick. As […]