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Wednesday

wash clothes
clean dishes
take out trash and recycling
pack a few things that Ayako needs
receive a delivery that’s had 4 attempted deliveries in the past week
eat lunch then go to Maebashi
prepare for baby

Thursday

baby
photos on Facebook
stay at hospital all night with Ayako

Friday

??? I have no idea what happens here
stay at hospital all night with Ayako (She’ll be at […]

Wow, I missed my post on Friday, but I have a good reason… we thought the baby was going to be here Friday night! So, I rushed to Gunma to be with Ayako, but her regular pains subsided after about 8 hours. The doctor said she’d definitely have the baby this week, and we have […]

You get to the office and put your stuff at your desk, sit down, log in, open your email then decide it’s a good time to get a drink before reading everything. You take your empty mug and walk into the kitchen.. OMG, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!???

Your mug shatters on the floor. Welcome to […]

I live around what some might consider as the best place for ramen in or near Tokyo. In fact, there’s even a ramen museum dedicated and a home page dedicated to all the ramen in this area:
http://ramen-museum.jp/
And today, for dinner, I had a great big bowl of amazing miso ramen:

So Goooooood! I really need to […]

I spent about 8 hours studying Japanese today. Way too much… I’m really tired now, going to sleep.
I’ve got some cool photos to share, hopefully Sunday after the test I’ll relax a little and then update here again.

On Sunday I’ll be taking the　Japanese Language Proficiency Practice Test level N3 (there are 5 levels). In two more weeks, I’ll take the official test. Nothing like crunch time!
今週日曜日に僕は日本語能力模擬試験レベルN3をします。１２月４日は本物試験です。がんばります〜〜

On Saturday, Makoto and I went to Round1 - a large sports and arcade entertainment center (they have everything from soccer, basketball, batting, volleyball, ping-pong, billiards, skating, arcades, and more) and then went with friends to dinner. The weather was great and the entertainment was more than enough to fill the 3 hours we planned.
One […]

My brother-in-law came into town yesterday and wanted to go out drinking. We don’t often get chances to drink together because he lives in Sendai (and was there during and after the quake + tsunami), but when we do get a chance - we don’t let it go to waste
Last night we went […]

In Japan, schoolkids all wear uniforms. Each school might have a slightly different style uniform, but their practically all the same. Uniforms are used all the way through high school.
In middle school, Japanese schoolchildren often wear different color accessories (maybe pins, patches, ribbons) depending on the grade they are in. You can tell what grade […]

I spent part of the day on Sunday in Akihabara searching for a cable I need to hack my Roomba. This is what I was looking for:

I needed the round 8-pin serial mac cable. It matches the serial port on the Roomba that’s used to access its brain.

While searching for a place to get that […]