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Dennis Hopper RIP.
Dead at 74. I have always been a fan of his. Spike has a pretty good piece on his life. He was a unique actor who brought a voice to many of us Boomers.
View ArticleOut and about.
No internet access for a day or so. We are off to check on the S.O.`s apartment. Picture posts tomorrow evening.
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The most important room in the house
Ah, this is the life. Jack Daniels in the glass, and hot water shootin’ up your ass! -from the beginning of the movie, Middle Age Crazy. While I am not normally in the habit of carrying a drink into...
View ArticleA good hand poorly played…..
By Yukio Hatoyama who resigned yesterday-one year after winning election by a huge electoral majority. The S.O. has been grabbing every chance to watch the news coverage. It is kind of nice to see it...
View ArticleThis is why I support net neutrality…
Because companies should not tell you how much data you can use. I consider myself virtually addicted to my iPhone. I obsessively check my e-mail on it (4 accounts!); I listen to streaming music as I...
View ArticleWinding up
Sadly, its the end of the week and this great little adventure is going to have to come to an end. Returning to Hicksville and the job nuttiness soon enough. I still get two more evenings here in...
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Quiz night.
Here is a trivia quiz question. Do you know what this is? Answer tomorrow. Consider this an open post-I’ll let Curtis pick the topic.
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The picture in the previous post is the “Zero Milestone” which is located at Nihon Bashi. All road distances were supposed to be measured in Japan from this point-and it was the place that the Shogun...
View ArticleIt is still not Sayonara……
But again it is Ja matte ne. This has been a great week-so great. Saturday we went to Oedo Onsen and had dinner and a soak. Its kind of a neat thing. You go and pay your fee, change into a Yukata, then...
View ArticleTagged-
Have not even been back 24 hours yet. Catching up on sleep, work , bills. Something has to give and it would appear to be blogging. However……… Expat at Large has tagged me with a meme. Not sure of its...
View ArticlePix, Pix, Pix.
New albumns posted this morning-a couple more to follow. For now you can visit Ameyoko, which is a neighborhood near Ueno Station. A great place to people watch and buy things for less money. Tsukiji...
View ArticleMy contribution to the meme…..
Keeping the chain moving from Savannah: “the latest meme in blogville. the twist is that after i answer her [very good] questions, i get to ask 10 NEW questions and tag another set of bloggers!” 1. How...
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And the World Cup begins….
And this year-I’m getting behind the World Cup. Every where else in the world-businesses and life in general comes to a halt while national teams play for nationalism and bragging rights. The US? Er,...
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Busy night
Trying to convince the S.O. to do something. It does not appear to be working from this self portrait: Speaking of portraits I have uploaded some more pix from the Japan trip. A visit to Neko town. Out...
View ArticleA belated Memorial Day post
I was in Japan on Memorial Day-and while I remembered the day in my mind-I also did little in the way of observing it. Certainly did not go to any ceremonies or the like. AFN had a bit about Memorial...
View ArticleA really great non-event…….
Under the category of ” I did not see that coming…” it would seem that when Sarah Palin needs to inject herself into the news cycle, and she is out of ideas ( a process that takes all of 30 seconds),...
View ArticleWhen it rains-it pours.
I’m going to war with the State of Alabama. Got home after work today-and in my mail was this: ” Payments under the USFSPA are not considered alimony. Accordingly, your claim for alimony payments has...
View ArticleThe new Jacobins
One might think that my skirmish with the state of Alabama as noted below might have me changing my thoughts about government. Not really-clearly this represents what is a pretty obvious trend, the...
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A job for me….
Finally, a job opportunity in Asia I know I am really qualified for: Rent a White Guy. Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of....
View ArticleCaprica
When I was a young man, I was a fan of the short lived TV show, Battlestar Galatica. I was going through flight school, there had been only one Star Wars movie and the Galatica seemed like an aircraft...
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