Procedure…A-B-C, 1-2-3

What I don't have anymore

‘Excuse me, I seem to have lost something,‘ I said gaining the attention of a station attendant standing next to a ticket window.  ‘Just a few minutes ago my iPod fell from my pocket and I was wondering if someone stopped by here and dropped it off.’ Kyoto station at [...]

December 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: general life | Leave a comment

Anchors away!

Not this Thanksgiving

How do you feel about Thanksgiving? How do you feel about Independence Day? What do you think about Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, even Christmas? What goes through your mind those days and weeks before they arrive? Do you even notice them as they pass by or [...]

November 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: general life | Leave a comment

Just a little bit more then them…

Sometimes it's like walking up a mountain

Persistence.  Here in Japan it is an essential quality and those without it quickly leave (or are somehow by buffered from reality by an unknown force and stay on for years blissfully unawares).  I’m not talking about the persistence a tourist needs to find an out of the [...]

November 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: general life | Leave a comment

Bringing it to a new level...

My legs stretched out in front of me, at least as far as they could in the cramped space of a JR train.  A long day of wandering around Wakayama city had had left me pretty tuckered out and in order to balance the scales I had treated myself to a nice long soak in [...]

November 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Travel, general life | Leave a comment
 
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