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Here you will find a detailed photo documentary album of our beer brewing experience. However, what wasn’t documented was the process of constructing the counter current cooling system (cooper pipe and bucket contraption) and the purchasing of all the ingredients. Overall it was an awesome experience. My first time brewing with real grains and creating my own recipe. Currently, it is in it’s second phase of fermentation ready to be kegged and bottled in a few days!
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Well, after another couple of months of post-LSAT fun living it up in Oregon and Huntington Beach, CA we are currently in a little place called Binghamton, NY. Before I get started about Binghamton let’s get caught up with our time in California.
After bringing Paige up to Oregon where we went on our excursions getting the best of North Bend and hanging out at the lake, we headed back to California where we entertained Paige’s cousins and extended family from her mom, Cynthia’s side of the family.
It was awesome meeting Todd and Connie, (Cynthia’s brother and sister) as well as all of their children, Kyle, Alex, Anna, and Jimmy. Anna also brought her friend, Jennifer, who was nice to meet. We got a chance to hang out at the beach a lot at Crystal Cove, and the Huntington Pier.
We also got a chance to play a lot of volleyball and beach soccer. Both Kyle and Alex play soccer in high school. Overall it was a great time and my game, Aggravation, which has been in the family for many years kept us all entertained. Other than that it was other games like Risk and the card game ‘Oh Hell’.
Once they left Paige and I had a chance to focus on securing our wedding venue. After beginning to lose hope, we stumbled across this amazing place after Paige convinced me to drive down near San Diego to check out Condor’s Nest Ranch.
This place is awesome. As much as I would like to elaborate, however, just check out their site and I will write more a bout it later. I have a lot to cover today.
Next thing, Paige’s best friends from high school, Jordan and Amanda, came to visit us in Huntington Beach. We picked them up from the airport and we all had a great time together. We had ANOTHER long day at the beach where my Dutch friend, Sjoerd, three of his friends met up with us while traveling down the west coast. What a great time! Those guys were awesome and the day went by really fast. I hadn’t seen Sjoerd in two years since I was living in Costa Rica.
Later, the girls and I took a little day trip up to Santa Monica, Venice Beach, and Korea town in Los Angeles. They did a little window shopping and we ran the gauntlet at Venice beach trying to keep all the guys from hitting on the girls. For dinner we ate at an all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue restaurant called “Manna” which was amazingly very authentic. We all loved it.
The last day we took it easy and I played in a soccer game with a Latino team who I played with once before. It was a good time, having won the game, and I also scored a nice goal early on. Somehow, though, from a header I hurt my neck from some kind of muscle spasm and for this last week my neck and upper back has been really killing me.
Paige is feeling great now having chosen our wedding venue and now we are focusing our efforts on booking the photographer (which is proving to be VERY expensive). We have a few in mind and are excited about it. The official wedding date is August 6th, 2011. It will be right before I am scheduled to start attending law school. Oh, and on that note, I officially have everything ready for my law school applications except for my written personal statement. I was excited to get my last letter of recommendation in TODAY. The other day I got my transcripts from SOCC, the Community College where I have about 7 credits (not exactly meaningful but required none the less).
Monday night we left for Binghamton, NY to visit Paul’s side of the family. We flew in on the red-eye flight and with my neck injury I slept a total of 0 minutes to arrive to Binghamton 9 hours later without our suitcases. But the next day we got our bags and got comfortable. The last few days were spent just hangin out in this economically depress city, but without the depressed feeling being surrounded by family. Paul’s mother and father are both wonderful people. I am slowly learning how the complicated relationships fit together and have been delighted by the presence of all parties. Paul’s father’s (Paul) girlfriend, Joan, as well as Paul’s mother’s (Jeanne) husband, Charlie are both great.
We spent the day yesterday at a lake doing some swimming at sat near the bonfire with Jeanne and Charlie and Paul’s half-brother, Brian and his family. The little kids tend to follow me around a lot which is often annoying, but fun as they keep things interesting. We had a great time taking pictures of our sparkler art work by the fire.
We have a lot going on soon. Today we are going to the Annual Spiedie Fest. Read up on Spiedies to find out how important they are in this area. I am excited. Tomorrow is a best ball golf tournament for a pancreatic cancer research fundraiser. Then, Sunday we will be running in a 5K race (not sure the cause).
Wow! That’s a lot. Keep tuned in and I will follow up on all this stuff.
Love to hear your comments!
-Kyle
Hey everyone, I know it’s been a long time.. Just wanted to update on the LSAT. I got my scores back and WOW.. I don’t know what happened but I guess all the hard work has paid off. When I woke up and saw my new score I actually didn’t believe it. It was even higher than I had hoped for and ended up to be such a relief.
After putting in that much time for something and working so hard, I was struggling to find the confidence that a good score would follow. Everyone who helped me throughout the process should know that I really couldn’t have done it without their help. I really appreciate all the things you did for me.
With the new score many doors have opened and I can comfortably apply to better law schools and look to gain scholarships as well. Currently, my top schools include (geographically) University of Washington, Seattle University, Lewis and Clark, Willamette, University of Oregon, UC Davis, UCLA, and USC.
I know some of these are quite difficult to gain acceptance to, however, I plan to apply anyway and try to do my best.
Along with that note, I wanted to share the latest crop of photos I have taken while kicking off what very well could be to most fun summer of my life!
(click on the picture to see the album)
Thanks all! I will try to update again soon!
-Kyle
Wanna try? Go ahead. You have 8 min 45 seconds to read and complete the questions.
*Taken from the actual February 1993 LSAT
Doctor Yamata works only on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. She performs four different activities–lecturing, operating, treating patients, and conducting research. Each working day she performs exactly one activity in the morning and exactly one activity in the afternoon. During each week her work schedule must satisfy the following restrictions:
1) She performs operations on exactly three mornings.
2) If she operates on Monday, she does not operate on Tuesday.
3) She lectures in the afternoon on exactly two consecutive calendar days.
4) She treats patients on exactly one morning and exactly three afternoons.
5) She conducts research on exactly one morning.
6) On Saturday she neither lectures nor performs operations.
Questions:
1) Which of the following must be a day on which Doctor Tamata lectures?
(A) Monday
(B) Tuesday
(C) Wednesday
(D) Friday
(E) Saturday
2) On Wednesday Doctor Yamata could be scheduled to:
(A) conduct research in the morning and operate in the afternoon
(B) lecture in the morning and treat patients in the afternoon
(C) operate in the morning and lecture in the afternoon
(D) operate in the morning and conduct research in the afternoon
(E) treat patients in the morning and treat patients in the afternoon
3) Which one of the following statements must be true?
(A) There is one day on which the doctor treats patients both in the morning and in the afternoon.
(B) The doctor conducts research on one of the days on which she lectures.
(C) The doctor conducts research on one of the days on which she treats patients.
(D) The doctor lectures on one of the days on which she treats patients.
(E) The doctor lectures on one of the days on which she operates.
4) If Doctor Yamata operates on Tuesday, then her schedule for treating patients could be
(A) Monday morning, Monday afternoon, Friday morning, Friday afternoon
(B) Monday morning, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon
(C) Monday afternoon, Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Saturday afternoon
(D) Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon
(E) Wednesday afternoon, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon.
5) Which one of the following is a pair of days on both of which Doctor Yamata must treat patients?
(A) Monday and Tuesday
(B) Monday and Saturday
(C) Tuesday and Friday
(D) Tuesday and Saturday
(E) Friday and Saturday
As you can see, these types of games are complicated. They deal with four variable sets, which calculate to have more than 20 million possibilities. However, as you do more and more of these problems you start being able to pick up on more inferences that are key to solving the questions.
The key to this problem is to figure out which tasks she performs in the morning and afternoon. You can deduce that in the mornings she treats patients on one day, conducts research on one day, and performs operations for three. For her afternoons, she treats patients on three days, and lectures on two consecutive days on Monday or Tuesday. Linking the rules so that they provide more information is essential.
By the time 8 minutes and 45 seconds was up, I was able to correctly answer only three questions because I simply didn’t write down one of the rules which was necessary for questions 3 and 4. So, I will continue to practice until I consistently set these problems up correctly.
Answers: 1) b 2) c 3) e 4) e 5) e
Hey everyone! Well, the time hath come. It’s time to stop slacking off and traveling about like a vagabond without keeping ties to the blog. Welcome back to the new series of posts to keep you happy.
Well, I’ll keep this short because I rarely end up doing that. We got back to Korea and spent an amazing month just visiting our families and friends. But before we did most of that, I asked Paige to marry me. Yep, that’s right. We’re engaged. Although, I would guess most of you know that by now. If you click on the flickr fotos page you will find some pics of the engagement party and such. The pictures of the awesome engagement ring Paige and I picked out can be found by clicking here.
We had an awesome engagement party thrown by my parents in North Bend and then we took of for Washington DC to visit Paige’s brother. Had a blast sightseeing DC and New York City where we also got to meet up with old friends whom we’d met prior in our various adventures abroad.
That quickly brings me to today. Now, unfortunately, Paige and I are in different parts of the country, but only for a short while. I decided to move home for the month of May and end of April to seize the opportunity to live in a minimal distraction environment while I study 40 hrs/wk to retake the LSAT. This is actually a short break from studying right now. More on all this later on.
LSAT begins on June 7 at 12:30 PM. I think I’ll put up a countdown timer soon 
Hey all! Sorry we have hit a little bit of a rough patch as far as updating the blog. We were going strong for a long time, then once we got home from the Philippines trip we were bombarded with stuff to do.
The China story should continue as soon as we have time to complete things. We are busy getting our place ready to move, getting rid of most of our belongings once again, and planning our travels with Kanji.
For now, I wanted to show you something I have been working on. I was asked by a friend who has been planning a travel photo exhibition in Busan to gather some photos I have taken while traveling.
The event will be comprised of 5 selected photographers and the content will be anything to do with travel. It will be held at a small art studio located underground in the Suyeon subway station in Busan, Korea.
I am very excited do be a part of this and am still trying to learn about how I can get my selections printed. I decided to use my photos from China so have a look!
*Click on the Picture to see the album.
Just to say I got some photos up for you to see before we go back to Korea. Getting on the boat in one hour. (sad face)
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