Being a Dad in Japan
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Smell the alley and do it again and again
Smells are the invisible trails on which our thoughts like to meander. Work smells like coffee and cigarettes. The smell will stay with me for the rest of my life. It’s a smell particular to my boss’ American Spirits and the office coffee. The bowling alley smells like wood polish and dirtiness. You can smell…
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I can’t concentrate, but I can pick my nose
I can’t concentrate when the music is on. If I try to write when music is playing… especially one where some is singing, it’s all over for me. Even worse are radio announcements. This condition occurs whenever I’m trying to write, probably when I’m programming as well. Am I always trying to pick out just…
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Gozen – 御前山
Climbed Gozen in Tokyo-to today. I feel lucky that the greenery and beauty of the mountains can be so close to this concrete mess to provide some reprieve from the madness. Gozen was not a terribly hard hike, but it left my knees a little week and a slight case of altitude sickness. I couldn’t…
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Home Econmics in Japan
A home economics teacher who I have relationship to, except that she now teaches at the high school I went to visited me today. Went to Shinjuku for dinner at an izakaya. Also took a stroll around the red-light district of Shinjuku much to the amusement of the visitors. Live just doesn’t get more entertaining…
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Today’s Observations
To follow up on yesterday’s post about the Golden Eggs. You should watch all of the Mori-mori Cooking videos they have on YouTube. I’m going to by the DVD so that we can experience the full broadcast. Having seen a number of shows at this point, I know realize that they all tie together in…
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Sushi & Yonchomei
Dinner with friends tonight at a local sushi restaurant and then coffee / desert at the Yonchomei cafe. Spent most of the day in and around the house doing nothing in particular, but wasting time. Highlights of the day came from watching a hilarous Japanese cartoon called The World of Golden Eggs and hanging out…
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