Entries by AlanPaul

Eli’s bed

Chinese mattresses can be pretty unbelievable. They are often pretty thin pieces of foam stapled onto plywood and when you lie on them it feels like you are lying on… thin pieces of foam stapled to plywood. Eli has been sleeping on one of those since we arrived here two years ago. We bought a […]

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Neighborhood Pictures: Little Rascals

Just catching up on photos from the year a bit. These guys are so Little Rascals, it’s not funny. Eli with George Yardley and neighbor Lukano. Lukano is wild. He is 4 and roams all over by himself, including the Clubhouse. He rides his bike all over the compound by his lonesome. His dad is […]

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About that bad air…

I just wrote in a parenthetical that the air has been horrible. Well,these pictures say at least 1,000 words. It has really been horrible. I think they are freaking out about the Olympics. next week is the big one-year-from the-Games celebration and countdown and they do not want it looking like this. It started raining […]

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Wrapping things up, dogsitting, working hard…

We’ve been dogsitting Cowboy for three weeks now. He is a spectacularly beautiful, well-behaved and friendly Golden Retriever. He is sitting under my desk licking my feet right no, as I type. It does give us pause. We’ve told the kids we can get a dog after we move back to America. But in some […]

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Go to church

Master T Bone Walker with a great jazz band, including Lloyd Glenn on piano and Illinois Jacquet on tenor. Same as above, plus B.B. King, approx. age 40.

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Most Important Story I ever wrote

I didn’t even know I had a digital copy of this story until I stumbled upon it on my hard drive this afternoon while searching for something else. Then I remembered that it was re-run a few years ago in Hittin’ The Note, an Allman Brothers fanzine and they input it and then gave this […]

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