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-that is, Christmast cake. And a very happy 2012 and New Year to ya’ll! Yup, it is the new year and yes, I just said ya’ll. I would like to remind you that this is my post and I can exploit whatever silly words I would like. But I guess I had better be carefulContinue reading “save some room for cake,”

SO a happy 2012 to all ya’ll out there! And with a few kind words I want to wish you all the best and say, too that I’ll have a fresh Tokyo-saturated post for you tomorrow! ( I mean today is a holiday here after all!)

You know, you read a statement like the one above and your brain takes off and finishes the line -maybe without you wanting to finish it. But there’s nothing wrong with that. Christmas comes just as surely as the missing word in a catchy, or know-y phrase. And yup, there’s nothing wrong with that either.SomeContinue reading “it’s beginning to look a lot like,”

(the snowfall at Sapporo University; not quite the snow as is in my town -will snap photos of me town soon!) A mighty wind and and some right-y, tight-y long underwear. Now, I haven’t been counting the days that I’ve been living in long underwear (no, not the kind of underwear with a flap atContinue reading “winter days, and winter ways”

It’s official, get me the plaque, the wall-mount -we’re going global ! It has now been confirmed. For the sake of your entertainment; and for a hopeful ‘up’ in readership numbers for pity’s sake I can now say that my boiler has gone to none. It is dead. Is it all that bad? Is thisContinue reading “it’s official,”

My boiler is having a rough week. Again, so am I? I wonder so. But hey, before this story gets old let’s just parse a few more bars. Two service people, two glasses of water, and one hour and forty minutes later -there was no gold to be found within my boiler. I did howeverContinue reading “day four,”

Today is officially day number three without hot water. Now I am not boasting or trying to prattle for any attention. I just figure that subconsciously, or for better psychological health I may as well spout about this a bit. Beyond that I am sure that we I look back on this collection of sayingsContinue reading “i found a bed of nails,”

Hi there. I seem to have found the paper on which I scribbled various insights about school life and various other tidbits here in Japan. It was in my language text just waiting to be found, this paper was. About the following, this is soley my experience, viewpoint, and so forth, and so on. IContinue reading “living on the fritz,”

The weekend was great. In fact so was last week’s two day work week. Okay, alright, it was a little more than that. Last week’s two-day meant that I was up and out to go about to Sapporo for a business trip. Business trip? Well, you could call it that. It was instead our mid-yearContinue reading “then it came,”

(above: football makes the world go round) ..stone-walled by snow. The ETC (or Electronic Toll Collection system/aka toll highway) or express highway to and from Sapporo was shut-up due to snowfall. It was a rare occasion indeed. But this bit of information has to do with my travels to and from Sapporo this last weekend.Continue reading “football and stone-walled,”