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Visiting the Philippines

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

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 […]

FTP on Iphone and Mt Fuji

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

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 […]

Recent random things

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

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 […]

Really tired, posts pre-scheduled

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

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 […]

2012 Yes, Please

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

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

My schedule

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

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 […]

Studied too much

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

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.

unboxing my roomba

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

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 […]

Roomba, Roomba 770

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

It’s finally in Japan! A couple weekends ago, Ayako and I went to Akihabara to check out the Roomba’s at the Yodabashi camera. Unfortunately, they only had the old models and they were priced as much as the new models listed online. Patience being a virtue, I opted to order one from the US and […]

sleep is what i did

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

I slept nearly 12 hours last night… the longest I’ve slept in quite some time. I went home early, took care of some chores around the house, cooked dinner and ate with Ayako - then promptly fell asleep.
I suppose I had a large deficit in the sleep reserves.
I had intended to talk about Japanese idioms […]