I have stopped mid- (or what I'm hoping to be mid-)translation of the recipe to the cookies that I made because of these little Excel-made posters, which are hopefully to aid me in re-retention and recall:

I come tonight to bear what I foresee as the last pod-based jpg (at least for a while). It is certainly not to be the last of my drawings, but I am to embark on a less time-guzzling task that contains more characters, as many have been sprinting from my memory unit by what seems to be the hundreds. In addition, I already am quasi-obligated to another time-guzzling task (and there's only room for one): purging the disutilities from what is supposed to be my social utility.

I am a terrible blog maintainer.

In the near month-and-a-half that has passed between this post and the last, hordes of Chinese characters and vocabulary from other languages have entered and seeped out of my "memory barrier". Fortunately, some have become more of permanent fixtures in my long-term memory; others have wandered into the even less-chartered territory that is the rest of my brain.

Also having occurred in the past month-and-a-half was the laptop scare. For nearly half of last month, I was under the impression that my laptop was comatose--if not dead. After much useless reasearch--and after plenteous trials and errors, safe and perilsome--my laptop, by the grace of God, started working again. It epitomizes the "ghetto laptop" at the moment but, thanks be to God, it is operating.

To express my gratefulness (two weeks late), I come bearing a jpg of hanzi learned in ye olde times of July:

Only five days later, I come bearing another gift.

Interstice upon interstice of time between my posts has been duly noted--as well as the divagators and divagatrices of Blogger.com, whose sojourns in the walls of this little pink-walled bloggal microcosm have been archived. I see that some have also come to take up a second/third/867th abode in this poorly maintained pink-walled blog. :O

我還在這裡！ I'm still here!

It has been over two weeks since I last posted on here. Those two weeks, though filled with hanzi of old, were not without some new hanzi.

I was too fatigued last night to come bearing gifts, so I shall once again come with twice as many tonight.

Today, I come bearing not one, but two picpics to you, my autoschediastic flow of readers that happen to stumble upon this wee blog in the lagful times of your life. Well, here are today's brand new hanzi:



Come enjoy the sea of yesterday's hanzi as well. (The ones that I posted yesterday are from the day before.)



For 虧 kuī, <------ notice that that is the more correct writing of it (The roof of the right-hand side of the character is indeed touched.)