Monthly Archives: October 2010

Lessee, Day 3 we had more people at the Kawasaki household (their daughter Sho and granddaughter Yuu) and we all went to the hot springs. I was the one who wanted to go and they all indulged me. I don’t have any pictures because people who want pictures of old Asian dudes have their own web sites and I don’t want to be one of them. Anyway, afterwards I think we made several trips to the shopping center and I had ice cream more than once. Until Nov 1, there are Hallowe’en presents you can win at Baskin & Robbins (or 31 as it’s known here) and I want more … Continue reading →

Well, the lack of sleep finally caught up to me and I slept for about 9 1/2 hours last night, after passing out after dinner for a while. 6 hours in two nights is a little short. I didn’t get to sleep until 1AM yesterday and then my mom woke me up at 7AM. We had until 10AM before our friend came to get us, but that’s just the way my mom is. Yesterday was another travel day, but in a car. 10AM – 12PM was travel to the apple orchard owned by some relative of my mom’s friend who was driving us in her Prius. Japanese apples are incredibly … Continue reading →

OK, so it’s not a full day, and it’s 1AM here. 11 1/2 hours of flying, three and a half hours on a bus, and then it was off to dinner at 10PM here. Monjyayaki, just like last year. I’m just uploading a couple of pictures before I really crash. It’s 9AM and a day and a half after I left the US now. I feel safe because my room is by the fire exit. In case you can’t read it:

I remember what I was thinking of before. I got an email telling me that my LA Fitness membership was expiring and that I should renew my membership. I think that means it’s now three years since LA Fitness took over my old gym, and three years since I’ve been to LA Fitness. Yeah, it was a waste of money, but whatever.

I’m not sure how people come up with the stuff we do at the gym, but they’re always coming up with new things. Sometimes it does get a little stale, but that’s mainly because there are exercises that I hate to do. Ever thought about doing broad jumps while wearing a giant rubber band? Yeah, I’m funny looking. Deal with it. There was something else I was going to mention, but I can’t remember quite what it was. Heck, there was something I was going to look up on the intarweb and I can’t remember what that was, either. I’m coveting the same digital camera my sister is (the Panasonic … Continue reading →

It was a horrible day outside. We’re finally heading into winter, so that means rain until we get a nice week in February or something. That’s not quite true, but at least it mostly keeps the Californians out. In any case, it was a good day to hole up and finish watching last weeks TV and some football games. The only responsible things I did were to pay bills and take my ballot down to the library. If nothing else, it should reduce the number of annoying phone calls I get. Unfortunately, I think it might reduce the my total number of phone calls to NOTHING, but I suppose it’s … Continue reading →

So, I switched to Comcast about a week-and-a-half ago, and in a week I’d downloaded 79G which is 31% of my download limit. Wow. And I’m not even sure that’s as much as I could be doing. I haven’t signed up for Netflix streaming or done any external backups of my computers. I’m just guessing that a 250G cap is not enough for geeks. I’m still in the middle of catching up with last week’s TV shows even though there were a lot of shows missing because of baseball. My DVR locked up and I had to try watching the shows online so that added even more to the amount … Continue reading →

I’m not sure what I can say about my week. I know I’ve stuck my foot in it a couple of times and that’s just the way it goes. Fortunately, however, I am going on vacation and maybe everyone will forget what a loudmouthed lout I am. I’m also very sore from going to the gym. I wonder if there’s any point where I won’t be sore from going to the gym, but I think if that day were to come it would have been when I was much younger. Of course I’m not very sensible and was probably the only one doing Tyler’s 30 birthday burpees this week, but … Continue reading →

I sure don’t have much to say since I’ve been spending most of my evenings reading a bunch of comic books. I gave them up cold turkey a long time ago and now they’re mysteriously falling off the intarweb onto my computer screen. When I was growing up I used to become entranced with comic books and it was hard to get my attention. I know it took three repetitions of a question to get my attention. I still have that problem today, even with comic strips in the newspaper. In any case, it’s what I’ve been doing. I guess I could make a comment about the tasty hamburger I … Continue reading →

I left work early today to try to get my network working better and I think I’ve decided that eight hours of monkeying with cheap Linksys routers, trying to get them to do my bidding, is about as much as I can stand. I’m trying to get a bunch of VMs going, and I’m on my way, but it was more setup crap than I expected. My network is still a mess but limping along is better than not working at all. Another exciting Friday night, too. I watched House, Lie to Me, Hawaii 5-0, Castle, Glee, NCIS, NCIS L.A., Terriers, Modern Family, and Cougartown. I think I would have … Continue reading →

I was pretty excited to get my Comcast cable internet connection going today, mainly because my life is really that boring. Now I’m trying to think of how I’m going to route the packets in my network so I can have both connections going. Not exciting, but that’s what my life is like. Time to hit the hay before I stay up researching just how to do this.

I guess if you use the USB modem, it’s irrevocably linked to your account so you can’t sell it to someone else. Really, other than that it’s just Tuesday and I really have nothing else. —- Oopsie. I forgot that my friend saw a 95% shrinkage of her tumor! That’s good news to be celebrated! And in much more minor news, not only won’t Clear let you transfer modems, they won’t let you transfer laptops with built-in WiMax! Talk about suck!