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recent
It has been a while since I have really paid attention to the site. There are some reasons for this, but I guess they are not excusable. Tonight, having finished up a little work tidbits, I will be focusing on the Bastish net. Even if only for an hour.
I have lots of photos to post. Tomoe and I went to BarBQ the other day with the the usual international crowd. This time there was a new Columbian there. Of course he goes to University in France, so he speaks French, just as most of the other people there. He is new in Japan... like I vaguely remember I once was... so he had lots of questions. It's weird, but depending on the mood I am in, those types of questions can really annoy me, or really be a lot of fun to answer. Luckily for him, I was in a generous mood and enjoyed answering... I think a lot of it also has to do with the way the question is asked and the attitude of the ¡Ènewbie¡É to Japan asking it. He seemed genuinely interested in, and there was no mistaking the enthusiasm for learning about Japan. Plus he had a lot of interesting input, so it wasn't just me repeating the same old anecdotes of what life is like for foreigners in Japan... he actually made me rethink my ideas too.
Anyway, I have posted the photos of that night... being sure to remove any solo images of people who have complained in the past. (to you: if you are in a group photo.. shouganai) But I think the major complaint was that the photo was a close-up anyway.
Many people must read my site, because many people have asked me about the accident. Well, I am fine... my bike is almost fine. I visited a couple bike shops, asking how much to fix the bike, and no one could give me a straight answer... they all beat around the bush saying it would depend on the bike manufacturer and some other crap. The one thing they all agreed on is that it would cost over 6,000 yen. That didn't sound right, so I went to a junk yard for abandoned bikes and found my own rim (just any old rim... I have no idea who the manufacturer was). So far it has cost me zero... the bike shop down the street charges 50yen to put air in the tire though. After I get air I should be OK to ride it again if there is no mental trauma.
My sister's birthday was Sept 25. Happy birthday to her.
Tomoe's birthday is tomorrow (Oct 1) Happy birthday to her. If I wasn't two years older she would probably feel old at 26.
My birthday is tomorrow (Oct 1) Happy Birthday to me. If Tomoe wasn't two years younger I would probably feel young at 28.
I was washing dishes the other day and Awii decided to play on the clean dishes, so I tried to shoo her of by spraying her wit water. She loved it, so now she will probably play there every time I do the dishes. Luckily I don't do dishes so often. Some great pictures of her below.
Like always, you can click on the photo for a larger one, but since I love the first two so much, you can download super-huge versions of them:
1rst picture
2nd picture
Other pictures of the birds.
Took a walk by my river on the way to the junk yard for bike parts, and stumbled across a bunch of guys in diapers carrying their doll house through the street.
Coming soon: the latest nudie drawings.
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