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Sometimes I turn evil. When I turn evil, I begin pushing and cursing (arguably) innocent Japanese people out. It's actually quite a common phenomenon, known as road rage. "How can this be? Kevin doesn't drive?", you may ask. Well, in Japan it is possible to experience road rage while walking. On my list of things to submit to a scientific study, is Why do Japanese people walk so frikkin' slow?!?!! Tonight was one of those times.
But wait!!! It was not only because Japanese people walk slow. It was because I was stuck behind them in crowded Shinjuku for an hour looking for the start of the hash. The hash web-site, at 5:30 pm, only said Shinjyuku San-chyome. Well, out of many many exits (I would also like to do a scientific study to count the exits) there where exactly ZERO arrows. I really wonder who will reimburse me for the 360 yen I used to get there and back home. (at which time the web-site had the exit (C3) listed).
I was really looking forward to this hash too... watching the World Cup, rootin' for Ireland in my green penis shirt and all... Oh well, a few lucky Japanese people get to go home and complain to their wife, girlfriend, whatever, about how much they hate gaijin. Also, I stumbled onto a nice pair of binoculars (I've wanted it for a long time but have been too cheap) for dirt cheap.
I don't think it is fair to the other 6 people who read the site to not let them in on the (semi)private conversation between a reader and the Bastish Net.
This is in response to last nights post (the person who sent this comment gives his permission to use the comment on the site... (there is a checkbox asking for permission in the comment form)).
That's great. You are one of the only people I know that would do their job for free. But, maybe you miss-understood me. I didn't mean to ask if you would still be involved in web programming if it didn't pay; you obviously do that for free for Bastish Inc. I meant to ask if you would still go to your place of work every day, teach your boss how to program, fix web sites that can't be fixed by repeatedly clicking on them, and all the other daily chores you do for someone else that gets you that weekly pay check.
Obviously I wouldn't work for the company for free, but the work itself, (if I had another source of income) I would do for free under the right circumstances. In fact, I am supposed to be making the WELS Japan Mission site for free...
If I didn't have my 'engineering' job, I wouldn't cease to do 'engineering' functions. They trickle into my daily all the time. But, if I wasn't getting a paycheck, I don't think I'd be getting out of bed at 5am to come here and deal with these customers every day. And I surely wouldn't pay someone else for the privilege of doing my job. (I payed for college, but that was an investment with a future payoff potential that is being realized by my weekly paycheck.) Yet I constantly find myself paying to do other things: rock climbing, skiing, racing mtn bikes, climbing Fuji. I think these things define who I am more so than my job. If I change jobs, I'll still have the same interests, the same desires, etc.
I have been leaving work at 6:00 every day lately, giving me more "personal time", but what I want to use my personal time for is work. Of course my own work, but still work. I am sure that I can not live working for someone else's company, and I view my current job as education (as I view almost everything... if I can't learn something from it, I really can't justify doing it. This is why I am growing more and more dissatisfied with my current job. It has nothing to do with money, it is all about learning. When I started I was learning enough to justify long hours. Now, I am not, so I commit more to my personal life. Yet, since my personal life goals are so intertwined with my work goals, I am much happier when my personal life is my work life. Even something as fun-sounding as the Hash would be boring if there were no people to talk to about their work, and I have been criticized for talking about work too much when they are trying to forget about it.
I can't believe you like Car Talk. I used to like it years ago, but as I learned more and more about cars, I liked the show less and less. But, their target audience is the auto-uneducated. Maybe that's why I don't care for them any more.
I don't think you have to be uneducated about cars to enjoy Car Talk. I am, but like I say, I could care lass about cars. I just think they are funny and love their attitude. And they do actually tackle some very advanced car related issues such as this week when they talk about Our Secret List of Cars that Chicks Dig
Today's "Talk of the Nation" is about Americans and their love of beer. I didn't get to hear it, and I don't know if it's on the website, but I thought you might be interested. Not that you've got a drinking problem. Just that you had your own review of Japanese beer (biru?).
I had been meaning to put up a notice for everyone about that... but I figured they could just catch the replay. It was semi-educational, of course I am a beer snob I guess, so I have to say that I would have liked it years ago, but as I learned more and more about beer, I grow to like this less and less.
By the way, they talk about beer snobs, and I think there is nothing wrong with someone who acts like a beer snob, unless they criticize Japanese Happoshyu (which is truly crap and not considered beer) but praise Japanese Ebisu, Kirin, or Asahi (which is truly crap and should not be considered beer).
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