SOFTWARE, JAPAN, SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND

I just got back from meeting Dr. Foronda, Ben, and family in the Philippines. It was my first trip to the PH and I loved it. The food is great (although the balut won’t be on my plate ever again) and the drinks are very cheap. The city of Manila is an interesting place with […]

I just spent a few days in the Philippines with my Ben Foronda.
I’ll be posting some photos tomorrow, while he and I are in transit to Sendai city, Japan, by bus

I’ll be visiting the Philippines for a couple days in the next couple weeks. I’ve never been there before, but I hear the beaches are beautiful and the weather is warm - both a big change from Tokyo.
I’m interested in visiting most, if not all, of the countries that can be reached in 3-4 hours […]

Over the Christmas / New Years break I needed to make some emergency changes to a website or two but I didn’t have internet access nor a computer save my iPhone. Luckily I found several FTP apps in the app store that seemed to be just what I needed based on the descriptions. I ended […]

Over the last 2 months I’ve read a few books, occasionally I’ll reread books that I think teach some good life-lessons, and occasionally I’ll read a book just for fun. Recently, I’ve read Javascript the Good Parts - a useful read for any web-developer, The Lean Startup - has some pretty obvious advice but is […]

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I did, and I’ll share some photos over the next 7 days (including one of my “Kentucky Christmas”).
I’m really tired, and have been short on time, but I went ahead and pre-scheduled some posts to automatically publish over the next 7 days. During that time, I’ll […]

Christmas 2012, hurry up!
I can’t wait. I can’t wait. I can’t wait.

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 […]

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.

Last week, I got my Roomba 770 - here it is:

It’s a box, with a robot inside!

Yes, I’ll let the robot do the work.

Here’s what it looks like all nicely packed into the box with that new robot smell.

Here is the Roomba out on the floor with all the included stuff. A couple brush cleaners […]