:raspberry:
Jealous.
Remember when he won an Emmy?
Is that a shot? At my HAIR?
You DARE? Shoot at my HAIR?!
:aiyo:
Nah, you just look a little bit like David Hyde Pierce. 
I don’t see it.
I have never seen them both at the same time…
ahh, ok. i see it now. 
[quote=“jdsmith”]Is that a shot? At my HAIR?
You DARE? Shoot at my HAIR?!
:aiyo:[/quote]
Your hair is pretty. That much is true.
I have pikchurs.
[quote=“tash”][quote=“jdsmith”]Is that a shot? At my HAIR?
You DARE? Shoot at my HAIR?!
:aiyo:[/quote]
Your hair is pretty. That much is true.
I have pikchurs.[/quote]
I was wondering where my soul went off to. 
In 2010, my family and flew into LAX and drove to NY, then to Old Orchard Beach, ME and then back to LAX. Great fun. When in NY, I renewed my driver’s license. I had it sent to my Gran’s. It never arrived. In Feb of 2011, I visited again to see if I could stand the NY winter. I went to to the DMV seriously jet lagged and hungover and told them and changed the address to my friend’s house in Albany. It never arrived. Finally, a few weeks back, I emailed the DMV (something I figured would take eons to get through) and they emailed me back in two days. 
They said they did send it, twice, but because my name wasn’t on the box, the Postman couldn’t deliver it. So I told my friend to write my name on their mail box. It arrived. It has just now reached me via FedEX (52 USD thankyou) and in the DL photo I am wearing a brown shirt that I bought on the 2010 road trip when we stopped at the Grand Canyon West. By the great cosmic, I am wearing the same shirt today. 
Now that I finally have a valid NYS Driver’s license and I leave shortly after 18 years, I think I will go down to the DMV here and get my first Taiwan Driver’s License.
And THIS is one of things I shall miss about this place. The wonderfully careless nonchalance about it all. 
JD, you need to get it notarized first.
[quote=“PigBloodCake”][quote=“jdsmith”]
Now that I finally have a valid NYS Driver’s license and I leave shortly after 18 years, I think I will go down to the DMV here and get my first Taiwan Driver’s License.
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JD, you need to get it notarized first.[/quote]
What? My license?
My wife ran into an adogah in the DMV last year and he said all he had to do is show his US license. We’ll see. If it can’t be done in one stop, it shant be done. 
[quote=“jdsmith”][quote=“PigBloodCake”][quote=“jdsmith”]
Number 1 is the number 1 reason we’re going back.
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That’s my #1 reason as well for eventually moving back to…uggghhh…Cali (I can hear LL Cool J in the background).
Damn liberals 
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Where in Cali? We quite enjoyed the seaside amusement park in Santa Cruz and the farmland east of there, and SF is lovely, but for the most part, we thought CA was a bust. Dry, brown, flat and Yosemite was so crowded it was the only place that reminded us of Taiwan. 
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Yeah, CA is sure gonna go bust with Demos in charge (raping us with taxes galore).
So-Cal is where I’ll be heading (Orange County to be exact). It’s a nice place to raise a family, close to LA (without actually living there) and really close to nice beaches.
I personally think that the early educations here in the 'wan would really help the kids get a head start, especially math, when they return to the States. While the 4th-5th graders are doing multiplications and divisions, they’ll be doing percentage additions/subtractions already. English, OTOH, will take a while but the environment will help them (to quote from Ironlady) “acquire” the English language.
What really gets me (and there was a person here who echos my sentiment as well) is how the vast majority of Taiwanese are busting their chops for, get this, a chance to enter the top-ranked university in the 'wan which also happens to be ranked a paltry 154th in the Times Higher Education World Uni ranking for 2012. Give me a break. Even UC Riverside, a compost repository for all higher ranked UC rejects, is ranked higher at #143. If you simply graduate from high school and do about average on SAT, you can easily get accepted at UC Riverside in Liberal Arts (or other non-competitive majors).
I’d rather have my kids go through their educations while having fun growing up than to be complete bookworms.
[quote=“PigBloodCake”]
I personally think that the early educations here in the 'wan would really help the kids get a head start, especially math, when they return to the States. While the 4th-5th graders are doing multiplications and divisions, they’ll be doing percentage additions/subtractions already. English, OTOH, will take a while but the environment will help them (to quote from Ironlady) “acquire” the English language.[/quote]
My boy’s new school has told me that he can test into a higher math class when he gets there. I laughed, but yeah, when I compared what my friend’s kids are doing in math at the same grade and what the boy is doing, he’s about a year ahead of them. As for English, he will certainly have to read a lot more of it, but he’s been truly bilingual for years now, speaking, writing and reading both English and Chinese quite well, although he does have a few minor grammar glitches. I tell him the other kids will beat that out of him though.
Geeks rule the world, so I don’t much care, but I see mine being a bit more outdoorsy simply because I am. 
It’s all good.