Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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1:38 am - it's the little things
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Breezing through 3 sets at a weight where a single set would have induced vomiting a month earlier feels awesome.
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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2:43 am - not over yet
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I almost feel like writing again.
People I thought I'd thoroughly burned my bridges with, I'm talking to again.
Others who have been out and away, doing their own thing, are back in town and hanging out.
And I'm working (sorta). Not real paychecks yet, but padding the UI at least.
It's all a start.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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10:56 pm - why I will always love Philadelphia
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Current headlines from Philly.com at 22:57 PDT:
Brotherly love, baby.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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2:05 pm - fucking finally
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I got a real job. It only took three months and some change. Oh well. I have big plans for that first paycheck:
new camera
big credit card payment
keg
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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11:57 pm
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My god, midnight infomercials now sell cd compilations of songs that were on the radio when I was in high school. My first few years of college, too.
I'm getting old.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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11:54 pm - oh man
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So here I am out in Pennsylvania, waiting for my friend Reidar to get married Saturday. Today the bride's friend Scott showed up from New York and showed us a video he threw together late last week. If you like boys in drag singing show tunes, you'll love this.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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8:13 pm - home
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Sam and I just got home from a wonderful 5-day trip around some parts of Japan we'd never been to.
Home is relative, though. After almost four years, it will only hold that title for another 9 days.
Still not sure what's next.
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
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12:28 am - dude
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There's an Obama, Japan.
I'm half-seriously considering making a trek out there around the end of March. I should see the Sea of Japan before we leave for good anyway.
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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1:25 pm - holy shit
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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9:44 pm - Tマイナス一年間
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January 20th, 2008. One year until that motherfucking war criminal who deserves to spend the rest of his natural life in a federal pound-him-in-the-ass-prison leaves office in disgrace, the worst president ever to preside over the republic.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
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11:14 pm - the man can give a speech
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Obama in Iowa:
I'm pretty cynical about just about every politician, Obama included. He's not the messiah a lot of supporters make him out to be. And yeah, he repeated himself a lot, though I can forgive that because he was speaking off the cuff and probably high as fuck on adrenaline. But some of this shit gave me goosebumps. I can't believe Bush is almost over.
Of course, unlike Obama, I don't want us all to sing kumbaya and get along. I want that fucker (Bush) to die. I want Bush and Cheney and all the rest of them to spend the rest of their natural lives in a federal pound-them-in-the-ass-prison (or even better: The Hague). I want Karl Rove to die lonely and forgotten, under the baseboard of a soiled bathroom in a poor neighborhood, with his hand in Alberto Gonzales' pants.
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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12:10 am - lol
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My brother in law looks like a hobo.
Qoo-drivers are tasty.
Mario Party 8 is hard!
Japan is smoggy.
Sams new computer is sexy.
My cats are dumb.
That is all for now.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
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10:23 am - mmmmmmm
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Hot cider, bread pudding, and sparkling wine.
Breakfast of champions (the day after Thanksgiving at least).
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
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1:08 pm - retching
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There isn't much about Japanese cuisine that grosses me out anymore. Sam and I are even at the point where we willingly eat natto (with rice) for breakfast because, shit, it's cheap (no joke: a 4 pack costs 88 yen at my local store). It even seems like 99 times out of 100 I can handle school lunch with no problems.
So I was working in the staff room during 4th period (the one before lunch) and the tea/lunch lady (she doesn't cook it, she just takes the stuff from the town's school lunch center and dishes it out for the kids) walked in and said, "Oooooh, today's lunch is a little strange. It looks like hospital food." She actually said 病院のごはん. It was funny. Except when I actually saw what she was talking about.
There was this nasty egg soup thingy (for some reason the eggs in school lunch always make me gag) and this slimy, foul-smelling seaweed-mushroom concotion, the smell of which still won't leave my nose. Thank god I was eating with the sixth grade today and didn't have to worry about setting a good example. Eeeek.
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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12:01 am - true dat
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
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11:48 am - Ewww
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I just had to give the "No, son, you've gotta wash your hands even if you've only gone #1" lecture to a boy in the 3rd grade. Damned germ factories.
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
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8:34 pm - good lord
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I was at work until 6:30 yesterday, and 7:30 today. I generally go in just before 8 in the morning. When I came to Japan, I thought the teachers who stayed in the office for hours after the kids left were fools. Now I'm one of them. Gah.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
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1:11 am - decisions...
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Every year, Sam and I spend most of September and October doing nothing while our bank account recovers from summer vacation. This year, I actually had an August paycheck, so things would have been a little different, but we had to sink about $1000 into our car in early September. So we've been seeing a lot of the inside of our house, and not much else.
All that changes on October 25th, when we both get real paychecks again (our bastard employers pay 60% for August - and paychecks go out almost a month after the pay period).
We had already planned on spending some of our money on seeing Underworld in Tokyo on November 24th, and Daft Punk in early December. Now, I just found out that John Digweed is playing at Yellow on October 26th. This all starts to get expensive pretty quick, since concert tickets in Japan run $80-90 and getting into a club costs $30-40. But we still have never gone to Yellow, which purportedly has the world's biggest sound system, and time is running out.
Should we just say the hell with the cost and go?
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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9:14 am - gah
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My 5th and 6th graders are working on a video project for English class. Actually, they finished working on it last week when we finished shooting. Since then I've been sitting on my ass doing nothing instead of editing the video, because I couldn't find the firewire cable for the DV camera anywhere. I looked at my school, Sam looked at hers, and we both looked at home. Nothing. Even though both our schools have the same cameras - Panasonic NV-MX5000 - neither of them bothered to buy IEEE1394 cables to go with them. They just have boxes and boxes of DV tapes, and watch them by plugging the camera into a TV. Lame.
So Sam and I bought a cable last year, and just trade off whenever one of us is doing something involving video. It was a great system until we lost the damned thing. Anyway, I finally went to the store last night and just bought a new one (a pain in the ass in and of itself, since the 20 mile roundtrip takes over an hour thanks to Japanese roads and traffic), and pulled it out of the box this morning at school to find out I'd bought a 4-pin/4-pin cable instead of the 4-pin/6-pin that I need to actually connect the camera to Sam's laptop. Fuck. I hope K's Denki takes returns.
current mood: ramming head into wall
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
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9:47 am - oh my good fucking god
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