Hi everyone.

I thought this was funny easter egg in google.





ok thats all.

Peace!

This is the coolest thing you will see all day.

Hi Peeps. Below you will find a link to my new way to put picture on the web. It organizes into a slideshow with captions and its embedded in iPhoto so I thought hey, why not.
Enjoy! I went to the the Islands for the first time since before summer break so thats whats with all the pictures. In other news, I've been good. Getting back into working when you havent been teaching for a month and a half isn't so easy. I forgot how to teach. Ooops.

First trip back to the islands.

Aug 25, 2006 - 21 Photos

I learned how to make my own Shinai. Here are a few pictures of the finished product.

Shinai!

Aug 27, 2006 - 3 Photos

Lastly, here is a quick video I took of the mural thats painted on the side of the port when you ride into Yagishiri Island. Watch for the sheep, and the happy sun, as well as the happy seaweed, and basically every other creature that you could possibly encounter.






Last Lastly, You know about this album, right? I mean, you've been listening to it, right?



It's only the best Iron Maiden album ever . Brave New World was great. Dance of Death was good. This one is amazing. They've outdone themselves, really.

I think that we should all pause for a moment of silence. For Pluto .

Another Test

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Well, Its official.

I've signed up for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test .
I'm going to try for rank 2-Kyuu, which means I must know about 1,000 Kanji.
I know like, 200? Maybe?

Yikes.

I better get started.

BOE Day, the last

Its Thursday today, and the last of my long strech of BOE days, were I spend much time doing very little.

Take a look at this:

Its CrAzY SaUcE:



I finished a book today. Its another Phillip K. Dick book. I've only read a handful of his books. You can start a converstaion about any of them by saying "so I was reading this book, and it was all about reality and how when you take drugs it gets all screwed up..."

Thats basically what all his books are about. Some are better than others. Some are amazing, and one in particular is in my top 5 of best books I've ever read. That would be VALIS. Che-che-check it out.

This weekend is Rising Sun Rock Festival. W00t! I'm leaving friday morning and I will get back some time on sunday.

School begins next week, with a trip to the Islands. Standard OP: leave Wednesday morning, get back Friday afternoon.


I'm climbing this mountain next month, on the 9th-10th. I've wanted to climb this island volcano ever since I saw it a year ago. It should be awesome. I promise a full report will follow!














out,
J

Beat Up Car

Look, its imbedded video!

I love YouTube.



We found this car on the ride to Nagano.

Olie got a cat!

Oliver, the fine chap who lives 15 minutes south of me, just got a cat, an incredibly cute tiny little ball of crazYness. Its only like 2 months old or something, so its got like, no motor control skillz at all. It was trying to jump up, and instead it rocketed backwards at an unprecedented speed.

It was hillariamous.

I read this book yesterday, for "work":


Arthur C. Clarke is an unique author who makes his characters awesome by making them good at maths. They can all do fairly complex algebra in their heads, and it always saves them from disaster, like where by calcuating the height of a wall inside a spaceship will determine the maximum ammount said space-ship can accelerate.

Like, what?

anways its a good book.

I found these pics too -- I will put more up later. Yay vacation!

My bestest of friendz.


also my bestest of friendz :)

Its been a while

and Ive been bad. I apologize greatly. If anyone is still reading this, please let me know!

What ive been doing:

1. going to the USA for wedding

2. summer cleaning, cause i missed spring

3. i got my black belt in kendo

4. studying for the JLPT in december

5. Alot of sitting at my desk.

look, i build a mario statue!