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A little Japanese can be worse than none
Every Wednesday at 1 o’clock I take Japanese lessons. Every Tuesday at 10 pm I talk on skype with Lisa’s brother Yuichi for one hour. I help him with English, he helps me learn Japanese. Am I fluent? Hello no. But my confidence in speaking out in public places has been growing. The other day…
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The little blue dot
My life has become dependent on a little blue dot. This little blue dot I am referring to is the directional decoder on the google maps app on my iPhone 4S. Of course the iPhone 5 can now be ordered, and has reportedly ditched google maps for its own GPS service, but I will more…
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The virtues of Tokyo
In my last two posts I spent an inordinate amount of time bitching about Tokyo. Sorry ’bout that. Apparently I was in a bad place. And the sweltering weather (4th hottest summer in Tokyo) was causing a bad case of crankiness. Well, today I have taken some of nature’s prozac (beer) and am feeling much…
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Karaoke at 12:45
Nothing much good happens in a karaoke bar after midnight. Song selections gets sloppy. Voices that started out at a 6 become a 3, only at a much higher volume. And good taste joins Ruby Rhod in the guest cabin. This is the point we reached last Saturday night. And these are things that were…
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Mount Fuji, for real
Go ahead, climb Mount Fuji if you want to. We did it. We survived. It is something most people in Japan do at one time or another. After all, it is the most climbed mountain in the world, with about 100,000 people making the trek each year. Fuji-san (as it is called in Japan) is…
a Nick in Time 