Archive for the 'Asia/Pacific' Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
We experienced an earthquake here in our home in Japan last night. It measured 6.8 on the Richter scale. Luckily, no one appears to have died in the quake.
Since no one died, I can say I’m glad to have been through it. Call me insane. Natural disasters (or natural near-disasters) don’t [...]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Some of my friends were not too far away from this event. They’re alright. They couldn’t tell me which of these reports about the event were correct.
I think I’ll be redirecting my search efforts.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
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Chris points at a large spider
I was on my way into one of the buildings with some other folks here when I espied this spider. As best I could tell it was an argiope spider. This one was about as [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
If it’s not one problem for American consumers who purchase Chinese products, it’s another.
Anyone who likes these new digital photo frames as much as I do, take heed!
Are any of the companies that make these digital frames publicly traded? I haven’t been able to find out.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I’m blogging from Waikiki beach again. I’m here for a short TDY to Hickam AFB to see the folks at PACAF. You know, the sky in Hawaii just seems to be a slightly different shade of blue than anywhere else I’ve been. It’s always green here, too. I’m not sure I’d want to live [...]
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
My wife and some friends and I all went to Appi to get some skiing in. This would likely be my last skiing trip from Misawa, as I’m due to be reassigned before next winter.
I started off on the black slopes and tried some of the techniques my friend Trigger [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Yesterday my family and a friend of my wife’s all caravan’d out to Hachimantai to try some skiing there. We hit the Panorama side, which had six or seven easy and well-groomed runs (two or so had decent powder in the morning that was gone by midday, since it wasn’t snowing). The other families [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Today my wife and kid went to the Hakkoda ski area with Shep and his family. Getting there and back was more time-consuming than normal, one of the roads up the mountain was closed, and all of them were snowy (fortunately not icy). The Sheps are snowboarders, so it was my first time both [...]
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Christina, the kid, and I took off with friends Deuce and Pitch and their families and spent Christmas Eve skiing at Appi. We had a lot of fun, of course! Having brought the baby with us meant that one of us would have to babysit while the other hit the slopes! Lucky for us it had snowed [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Last Thursday our friends Paul, Andrea, and their kids, plus my wife and I all took a nine-hour bus ride to Tokyo. The next day we all got up really, really early (that would be early as in "What does the ‘O’ in oh-three-hundred mean? ‘O-my-goodness it’s early!"), we handed the kids off to my [...]
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