Category: Japan
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Moving out / Moving in
Empty bedroom moving out of the old place All my old stuff (it didn’t make the move) The new place is a mess! Dear blog, I know I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been busy. I know, it isn’t a good excuse. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again. (I hope.) Last week, on […]
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Fuji Rock Festival 2008
A brief post to update you on what I’ve been doing lately. Things are incredibly busy right now — I’m moving to my new apartment tomorrow and am currently packing — so I am a bit overdue for an update. L. is a big fan of The Cribs, an indie rock trio from England. They […]
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A BBQ down by the Tamagawa River
Lots of people were having BBQs on Sunday down by the Tamagawa River BBQs make lots of garbage A surprisingly large number of men got naked and ran around Fundoshi and … tattoos On Sunday, I went down to the Tamagawa River for a BBQ with my friends Watanabe and Tokuda. I’ve been to maybe […]
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Japanese Chocolate
Morinaga Salty Chocolate KitKat Triple Berry As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been seeing a lot of Salty Chocolate lately. I picked up the Morinaga Salty Chocolate candy the other day. I opened the box, expecting a standard candy bar, but instead I got about eight individually wrapped really small chocolate wafers. They […]
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The NHK Man pays a visit
Friday evening I came home from work to a hot apartment: it was raining all day so I had left the windows closed. When I do that my apartment warms up pretty quickly, mostly due to the refrigerator and computer I suppose. I put some rice on for dinner and opened up the windows but […]
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Saturday morning alarm
I was looking forward to getting a bit of extra sleep on Saturday night, but at about 8:45am this morning, there was a pretty big earthquake north of Tokyo (centered on Iwate, a low level 6 on the Japanese scale) which caused shaking down near Tokyo. It was very minor, not strong enough to move […]
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Notes from Marriage Week
As always I am a bit behind posting news to my blog. Sorry about that. If you couldn’t tell from my previous entries, I married my girlfriend L. three weeks ago. We didn’t have a wedding ceremony, but plan to have one next year in May. My family came to Japan to meet with L.’s […]
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One picture – Traditional Japanese Kimono and Hakama
Jana, L., David, Alana I don’t really have much time, because I have to pack still, and then get on a plane to go to Morocco for a conference, but I wanted to make a quick note of things. Yesterday I married L., and for the past week my family has been in Japan. We […]
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Licensed to drive: Making Japanese streets more dangerous
Delicious DMV Curry I can’t believe Japan gave me a Driver’s License About two months ago I started the process to convert my Texas Driver’s License into a Japanese Driver’s License. I expected it to take a long time, but actually things went more quickly than I expected. Preparing the documents took a while. You […]
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Updates around Jiyugaoka
Jiyugaoka New York Doughnut Plant Cherry Blossoms in Jiyugaoka Oimachi Line Express Trains I’ve been neglecting my blog lately. Work has been busy, I’m getting married, family is coming to visit, etc. etc.. These things happen all the time, and it is no reason to ignore your beloved blog. I spent a bit of time […]