Can’t beat them to a pulp. Or phrased another way, why is a beer is better than a woman? At least it will be ready on time. Tonight the S.O. had a tight schedule. As she is teaching in her evening time to make some extra money (Japanese to Americans,
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Well, that does not happen every day!
George W. Bush and I now have something in common. As of tonight, we have both shaken the hand of Junichiro Koizumi……………….. I had the opportunity to attend a party in Yokohama tonight. I really had no reason to be there, except that a Navy friend had been invited and
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But without Seinfeld’s ratings. Yesterday was a very interesting day. No real reason for that, I meandered around Hong Kong, and amazingly enough left Wanchai relatively early. However it was just one of those days, a good day, with some unusual twists and turns. Woke up at a reasonable hour-which
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To have a cup of coffee and read the Hong Kong Standard while thinking about my life that is. Surely there must be cheaper and less time consuming ways to think about making changes. There are. They just are not as fun. I’m not sure why it is, but coming
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Today is the 4th of July and I have been thinking about what to say about it. Here I am, an American, living in Japan, committed as all get out to keeping my proudly American ass overseas, in Asia, where life is good. If I had known life could be
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Yesterday, I went back to my old stomping grounds. We are deep in the middle of moving this weekend, but we thought we’d take advantage of the weather and see friends since they were having an open base day on Saturday. Played golf, got rained on, then went to see
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Today I went with the S.O. to into downtown Tokyo. We went to meet a friend of hers from her days working for a big bad American corporation. Her friend still works for said corporation as a project manager and engineer. He is , depending on your point of view,
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Its the holiday weekend! Today was the emperor’s birthday, a national holiday here in Japan lots of people out and about. Known as Tenno no tanjobi (????? ) it is one of 2 times in the year that folks can get into the imperial grounds. Yesterday was freezing but folks
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Made it yesterday. I literally had to imitate OJ ( by running through the airport, NOT by killing my (ex)wife…….), and I made it on the plane to Tokyo with 5 minutes to spare. Now I am back in Japan and back at work. Today was our Secret Santa gift
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Good day yesterday, but I really did not do a lot. Started out shopping on Orchard road. Was on track and doing well, but then I came to the Borders books at Wheelock place. That was it, the shopping train went off the tracks at that point. Spent just about
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