Archive for February, 2003
Friday, February 28th, 2003
Random english.
Japan is just full of wierd random english everywhere. Like this box of cereal for example:
And this store: black and white and…
And finally, “Let’s ?????” Uhh…yeah, let’s.
While posting, I was rocking out to Underground from the album “Naked Baby Photos” by Ben Folds Five
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Thursday, February 27th, 2003
Burning the midnight oil…
…trying to figure out why there is a side scroll thingie. Hmmm…
The first piece of good news is my friends Ray Vazquez and Shannon Jamieson from NYC are coming to visit in late March! I can’t wait to rock the Osak. Oh, and Shannon, I got your books! Thank you thank […]
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Monday, February 24th, 2003
Mac Geeks.
Craig came over yesterday and we massively dorked out. He just got a new iBook so it was a software party. Also, we hooked up the 2 machines directly and he grabbed all 12 Gig of my mp3 collection in 20 minutes. Not too shabby. We had some spaghetti and […]
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Friday, February 21st, 2003
A night out.
After work tonight I went out with my co-workers Akemi, Izumi, Aiko, and Rebecca. They’re all really cool, and everyone has lived in either the USA or Canada, so they joke around and are super fun. So tonight we went out to the noodle shop that one of the students, Takashi, works at […]
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Thursday, February 20th, 2003
More pictures…
Note to self: think of a good way to explain “it was so funny I wet my pants” to a class full of people. Hmm…
Osaka pics:
            
That insane neon supermarket is about 5 minutes from my house. They’re a chain. And that brass band’s name is “Britz and Squash” and they were terrific. […]
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Monday, February 17th, 2003
Picture explosion!
These are from playing pool with Craig, Rio, and Kenichi after work on Saturday night. They had a whiteboard to keep score so I did a little “teaching” while we were there.
       
And here’s some pictures from Himeji. The people who aren’t Craig’s students are the friendly AEON Himeji teachers.
               
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Sunday, February 16th, 2003
WE HAVE DSL. REPEAT: WE HAVE DSL.
Training pictures. The last picture has our 3 managers crouching beneath us. No jokes, please.
  
More to come soon…
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Thursday, February 13th, 2003
Breakfast.
So what do you eat in Japan if you don’t want fish eggs for breakfast?
And who loves beans?
Here’s my commute:
I might be getting DSL tonight! You’ll all know when a hundred pictures are posted from 1 am to 3 am. Off to work…
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Sunday, February 9th, 2003
My first visitor!
My friend Scott Embree from college in Rochester came to visit me yesterday. He was on a business trip near Tokyo, and decided to come down for the night! He booked a room at the Osaka Hilton (very nice, if anyone’s thinking of visiting) and we got together around 7:30 or so. […]
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Thursday, February 6th, 2003
Late.
Today I was late for the first time. Yuck. I went to the discount electronics area of town and window shopped and lost track of time. I showed up at 1:03 and had to teach a class right away. Let’s just say I’m NEVER going to have that happen again. […]
