Keeping a hand in...
Mar. 24th, 2004 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWhile I wait for CVS to finish its checkout...
It's really annoying not having Lain. I hope the problem turns out to be fixable and I get her back next Friday (that's right, a week from Friday... grr!). I'm really tired of not having a useable LJ client and having to update via the web interface. There's so much in that laptop that I carry with me, that I'm now either chained to my desk at home or having to do with second-tier solutions like this one.
Doing pretty good otherwise. Got through lesson 9 of Japanese and starting on lesson 10 today. Doing two a week is really working out for me. I was kinda worried about what I was going to do when I finished the Level 1 course since I don't have 2 or 3 (and they're expensive, about $240 each), but I hit upon the answer: the local library has both Level 2 and Level 3, in CD format. Which begs the question: If I finish the Japanese courses this year, what should I study next? They have French, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian... Hmm, no Thai or Vietnamese. They have Korean, though.
Had Yamaarashi-chan over last night, like always. She seems to be doing very well with her eyes, and she and her sister were rambunctious while I made dinner-- tuna noodle casserole. When they were done, each had left a small pile of peas on their plate and eaten everything else. We played a couple of rounds of Go Fish and Crazy Eights, but by the end Kouryou-chan was bored with cards and they went back to something else. I also watched an episode of Diamond Dust Drops with them-- pretty ordinary as anime goes. At first, it looked hopeful, but the story was predictable and the animation less than stellar. Yamaarashi-chan's also learning to read at a ferocious speed, and I'm grateful for that. Kouryou-chan is getting there, too, although with two years separating them I don't expect her to be near Yamaarashi-chan yet. (On the other hand, Kouryou-chan already can cut her own food, a skill Yamaarashi-chan has not mastered.)
And I just hate it when I spend all day banging my head on a problem, get in the car, and the second I'm on the freeway the answer hits me. Grr...
It's really annoying not having Lain. I hope the problem turns out to be fixable and I get her back next Friday (that's right, a week from Friday... grr!). I'm really tired of not having a useable LJ client and having to update via the web interface. There's so much in that laptop that I carry with me, that I'm now either chained to my desk at home or having to do with second-tier solutions like this one.
Doing pretty good otherwise. Got through lesson 9 of Japanese and starting on lesson 10 today. Doing two a week is really working out for me. I was kinda worried about what I was going to do when I finished the Level 1 course since I don't have 2 or 3 (and they're expensive, about $240 each), but I hit upon the answer: the local library has both Level 2 and Level 3, in CD format. Which begs the question: If I finish the Japanese courses this year, what should I study next? They have French, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian... Hmm, no Thai or Vietnamese. They have Korean, though.
Had Yamaarashi-chan over last night, like always. She seems to be doing very well with her eyes, and she and her sister were rambunctious while I made dinner-- tuna noodle casserole. When they were done, each had left a small pile of peas on their plate and eaten everything else. We played a couple of rounds of Go Fish and Crazy Eights, but by the end Kouryou-chan was bored with cards and they went back to something else. I also watched an episode of Diamond Dust Drops with them-- pretty ordinary as anime goes. At first, it looked hopeful, but the story was predictable and the animation less than stellar. Yamaarashi-chan's also learning to read at a ferocious speed, and I'm grateful for that. Kouryou-chan is getting there, too, although with two years separating them I don't expect her to be near Yamaarashi-chan yet. (On the other hand, Kouryou-chan already can cut her own food, a skill Yamaarashi-chan has not mastered.)
And I just hate it when I spend all day banging my head on a problem, get in the car, and the second I'm on the freeway the answer hits me. Grr...
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Date: 2004-03-24 01:12 pm (UTC)Advancing age, Elf... That's why I now carry a tiny digital recorder, in addition to my shirtpocket memo pad. I gave up the PDA 'cause I couldn't do the graffiti/write fast OR accurately enough at 60MPH. :)
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Date: 2004-03-24 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-24 02:49 pm (UTC)It is my observation that Kouryou has a very advanced sense of kinestics, and of her own body and it's movement and how to manipule the world with it. Not only for a child her age, but already better than many adults.
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Date: 2004-03-24 03:06 pm (UTC)speaking "lost colony" stories coming up, and I have more French pop music
than Russian. (Given that my Russian collection consists of Tatu, and
my French collection is basically Alizee' and her mentor, Mylene Farmer, that's not saying a whole lot.)
While I am aiming mostly for fun, the more languages I know the more saleable I'll be, but I'd like to have the languages associated with the biggest economies behind me. That sorta points me in the direction of Mandarin, Russian, and German in that order...
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Date: 2004-03-25 09:56 am (UTC)riddle
Date: 2005-05-03 02:23 am (UTC)