SOFTWARE, JAPAN, SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND

Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!

Mia is now 1 month old! Her little hands have gotten bigger in these last 4 weeks.

Shen from Def Tech, a famous Japanese recording artist, and the first Japanese group that I ever listened to (because my brother-in-law Makoto bought me their album several years ago).
This meeting was by complete random chance. My coworkers and I planned to go to a Chicago style pizza place, that I had been recommending, […]

Kentucky Christmas, notice the biscuits have holes in them.

A bottle of Paul Masson that my father-in-law bought on his honeymoon trip to the US about 30 years ago. We had a couple glasses Christmas night, it was really good

Wishing all of you a very merry Christmas!
We may be enjoying a “Kentucky Christmas” here shortly.

We just got our new business cards at COOKPAD, and they are without a doubt the coolest cards ever. Why are they so cool? Let me list the reasons:

high on color, low on fat
each employee has a unique card, gotta collect ‘em all
on topic “in-your-face” bottom-up marketing tool, everyone’s a salesperson now
recipe on the back […]

So, here’s the last photo:

Finally figured it out?
I learned this new vocabulary “ニューハーフ” — pronounced “New Half” — which means transgender. In this case, the guy- that looks like a girl- is just in drag mode… she said she spent 0 yen, so no sex change (see one of the photos in the first part).
Looking […]

So, this past weekend I happened to glance at the TV when I saw a show with some very cool graphics. The sound effects and on-screen graphics were reminiscent of old final fantasy games so I whipped out my iphone and started taking photos while thinking “my friends in the US would like to see […]

Ok, so it appears that I’ll consistently forget to post on Fridays for the next 3 or 4 weeks since I travel to the in-laws early Friday evening. Instead, I’ll try to post on Thursdays starting this week.
Today, a big bunch of photos I’ve been saving up:

Traditional Izakaya, the type that is big enough to […]

Daddy’s girl and mother are doing great! I can’t stop daydreaming about her when I’m at work
未絢（みあ）Mia Kristen Abbott
Mi ->未 (future)
A ->絢 (to spin variety, colorful, and beautiful silk = making and spinning beautiful patterns)
She was born on December 1st at 4:13PM weighing about 6.7lbs (3000g)

“Hm, it’s strange out here in the […]