SOFTWARE, JAPAN, SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND

Kinyoubi is here. I’m exhausted, and ready for a break, if only for a few hours. While I go to the local theater for the opening of Star Trek in Japan, you can watch this and find out what that thing was
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Ok, I was going to write about something else tonight, but just before I sat down to type this out something of epic insaneness occurred. Seriously, my mind is going crazy trying to comprehend how this system works.
Our rent is supposed to be autodrafted from our account (good), but for some reason the apartment […]

So the new commute is a bit longer than the last one. Try 40-50 minutes, with 1 transfer on the trains. Not too bad, especially since I can sit down for little over half that. Additionally, I study Japanese on my way to and from work, so it makes for a dedicated […]

I promised a video of the new apartment, and I deliver. However, this video is not going to be public since we would rather not share this with just every random visitor to the site. Friends and family - please email me for the password and I will gladly give it to you. […]

Ok, so close to the end of the workday yesterday I started feeling a bit sick. Unfortunately it snowballed and by the time I was to eat supper - I just couldn’t stomach more than a little bowl of rice. Sleep was required, and I collapsed around 830pm.
I wanted to post a video […]

This is going to be a super-short post. “Gomen nasai” = sorry. I’ve been terribly busy the last few days, something I knew would happen - but didn’t expect to miss a picture post friday.
At work we are about to launch a brand new language site which has sapped 60+hours of my time […]

So next up on the agenda are 2 big and scary things for me, taxes and health insurance. The latter being a necessary evil, and the former just being evil.
I registered my new address at city hall yesterday evening after work. We were there quite late, and then they told us to pick […]

Today on my lunch break I ran to city hall to update my foreign registration. In Japan you have to update your registration if you move from address to another. The rule is 14 days after you move your registration card must be up to date, this Saturday will be day 14. […]

OK, this post is quite a bit different from most of my others, but every so often I’ll sneak a post in that is technical in nature (hey, my blog is “for-the-code!”).
Today’s post is a plug for a project that I’ve worked on in my spare time over many months. As many of you […]

Here we go, a few photos from the golden week trip. I just realized that the majority of the photos were taken with Ayako’s parents’ camera. All I have is a meager selection here, but I’ll post the best I have:

Shiroishi castle, which is a little south of Sendai. Reconstructed castle but […]