The Stumbling Engineer

The Stumbler has been having a lower back pain on and off over the past few months. Suddenly, this week the pain was so strong I had to go ...

I took a short trip on Friday to Kansas City, which actually spans two states: Kansas and Missouri. I visited my colleague John , who worke...

Made it back to the USA for a 4 week visit. As usual, things have been very busy on top of the jet lag. I did find time to introduce Young...

This is the last weekend in Seoul before going to USA for a long business trip. I decided to take a short day trip today to the sea. When ...

Saw this huge drill outside the office this week. I know this construction effort involves an underground passageway from our building comp...

I wish to put forth my new Taxi Theory I've been developing (maybe it is a hypothesis?)... " As The Stumbler approaches the street...

I've frequently heard that Koreans don't think a sandwich makes a meal. This restaurant opened up in our office building, which rei...

Here are some photos of our production "team" from last week. They're big on "teams" here in Korea, and I had to ch...

Working at the factory has a few dietary challenges. For lunch, everyone eats in the cafeteria. Precisely at the lunch bell, all the facto...

Just finished a whirlwind week of 12 hour days at the factory. No time for blogging or much of anything else for that matter. I was coughi...

I had to take a photo of this new dentist's office moving into our building complex. I saw an advertisement for this place the other da...

One of the few reasons I occassionally visit McDonald's in the USA is their breakfast menu. I really like their Sausage Egg McMuffin. ...

I made some Chicken Enchilada Casserole in my new oven tonight. It worked out pretty well. CH was here in the early evening as the blind m...

A nice snow fell today, and I hope it will continue falling all night long. Here are some photos from the office window:

The new apartment doesn't have anyplace to keep the recycling, so I got this amazing rack for recycling bags. Notice the patriotic (wel...

I woke up this morning and decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. First, here is the mandantory statue associated with my new home...

A couple photos of our new office building.

I had a chance to use my new fancy combination microwave / oven this week as a real oven. Sunday night I went to the pizza restaurant, and ...

Yesterday was Nut Eating Day here in Korea. As the name implies, you were supposed to eat nuts. I had this fact forced on me when I stoppe...

I have never taken the bus by myself in Korea, unless you count the airport limousine "bus". I've noticed a few buses at a st...