Where it's at

It has been busy and hectic, for the last few months. I have been racing around, trying to study, learn, explore, and do research for my thesis paper. Oh, yeah, and teach, too. This place is a challenge. The more I think I understand, the less I do, which is the usual cliche. I tried to upload photos from some of the trips I made recently, and it works, but all of the commands for blogspot are in Japanese, and I have to figure out what they mean. Also, I hate uploading pictures here. When you do it, it always loads the pictures to the front of the text, and you have to scramble around to put text around it. So, for now, I am just going to upload pictures to facebook.com and you can see my adventures there. I will keep this for notations and texts. Which is all we really need anyway, right? It will be just like a magazine, only without the fancy layout, or colour pictures, or ease of use. Ok, so it will be more like a textbook.

At any rate, I found a tutorial for blogspot and copied down all of the buttons' meanings, and will be typing away.

Lately my job is in a crisis, and Nova has been going through some troubled times. They have been late on payment for many staff members, although so far, I have gotten my money. I live in company housing, which is kind of expensive, so I think I shall look for cheaper options. Hopefully, I will not have to make any severe changes until after Christmas, when I can bring back a lot of stuff to my parent's house, in preparation for coming back to the states for a while. I need to do a lot of stuff before then, including take the Japanese proficiency test in Decembre. I hope I can last that long.

S Word of the Day

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I am pretty sure Jizou never approved of a kubikuri, but because of the tube magic of the internet, he is connected with them.
So, if you want to know what to get me for Christmas, just jog over to your local Samurai store and get me one of these babies.


They are for capital removal.

Tricky Chopsticks?

Finally, some with a weighty, important issue.

There are actually a lot of social rules which go with using chopsticks in Japan, for example, not to take out a lot of food from the bowl with the eating edge. You use the hand side, which might be potentially dirtier, but, hey, never entered your mouth. Ah, society!

Back at it again

I hooked up my internet a while ago.
I am in the process of putting more images I have online. here is one for fun:



This is my burden every day.

Dice K has made me famous

Well, because I still have some connexions back home in Springfield, Massachusetts, the local press interviewed me about my Japan adventure, and my thoughts on baseball. I know a lot of you don't necessarily associate me with baseball, or any sport, really, but I am a proud member of the Red Sox Nation, and have always been. Here is the article for you all to enjoy:


I may not yet be big in Japan, but you have to start somewhere.

Whoo HOO

I finally fixed all the stuff necessary for blogspot. I am now able to load up a bunch of pix, stories, etc.
I came to the US to get a lot of stuff done, and this is one of them. I will have a birthday dinner tomorrow, yay!
More when I return to Nippon.