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So today my energy was sapped by a cold. Usually they don’t slow me down, and they don’t tend to be bothersome like the occasional headache from staring at a computer screen too much. However, this one made me both tired and “blah.”
Tracing the events of the weekend I’m going to guess that this […]

This picture post Friday only has one picture.

After work I met Ayako at the train station, something I do every Monday thru Friday. After meeting up I dragged her to a local restaurant that I wanted to try called Doma Doma. Doma Doma is a Japanese style Applebee’s I suppose. The menu is filled with […]

Tako! Fresh… well, looks fresh but isn’t actually fresh since it has been in the freezer for a couple weeks, so let me start that over… Fresh-looking octopus, raw and soaked in vinegar. Yummy!
Here I am cutting the octopus, tasty snack. Strange, octopus “tako” was one of the things I was most afraid to […]

This past weekend was our self-emposed deadline for filing taxes here in Japan. By law taxes are to be filed by mid-March so our deadline wasn’t at all unreasonable.
So on Sunday we went to the tax office, which was quite the experience. In Japan it is common to go to the local gov’t tax office […]