Archive for the 'Asia/Pacific' Category
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Yesterday, Global Warming struck again. This time, it forced me to scrape frost off the windshield of the car.
I left my coat and an artic-capable sleeping bag in the car. I’ll probably stop carrying them in July, which I hope will not be too early!
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
It’s fairly early Sunday morning, the rain-mixed-with-snow is finally just rain only now, and seems to have washed away the slush that was forming on the road and patio.
Normally I’m told the cherry blossoms are blooming and the snow in the mountains should almost be gone. Instead, we’re [...]
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Christina and I hit the slopes for our anniversary today. Christina taught a couple kids the basics of skiing while I warmed up. I’m getting better at the black slopes, and I even got to try some powder today. I felt like I was doing pretty well. Christina finished her class and we [...]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Christina and I took the day off and went skiing again. Christina is going to try to become a skiing instructor, and the instructor course starts soon, so she wanted to get in a day of good practice with her favorite student, me! Okunakayama was a little closer than Appi resort, and it had [...]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Yesterday marked yet another sort of "first" for me. I flew from Tokyo to Frankfurt. Since that flight goes over Russia, that means I’ve finally at least been a passenger across the entire globe. I know my Father-in-law has done that more than once. As a matter of fact, his circumnavigation has included stops [...]
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
I keep mentioning ‘firsts,’ since this is my first time living in Japan, it just seems to be the thing to do. That, and being in my mid-30s doesn’t leave a whole lot of new experiences, so perhaps I cherish them a bit more than normal. Today my wife and I got an Internet [...]
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Tomorrow I’ll be moving into my new house. It’s a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, single garage, single story house. Aside from the single story, it’ll be a lot like the house in Germany I just vacated. I’ll have to wait over a week for the phone and Internet to get hooked up. I wouldn’t anticipate [...]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
I’ve been trying to get settled in a new country, state, city, base. I haven’t been ignoring Weltanschauung intentionally, I promise.
I should have a place to live within a week or so. Hopefully I’ll also have Internet access, that way I can blog in whatever little free time [...]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
The past few days have been somewhat relaxing. I’m on the island of Okinawa. I wish I could say I was relaxing and enjoying myself. I brought plenty of work with me, so I’m working and enjoying myself, as it were.
The other great thing is my old deputy [...]
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