Versus where I am probably going to. For the 8th year in a row-I am not at the Hong Kong Sevens. And others are. There is no justice in the world. However if you wonder what it is I see in Hong Kong-and why I am desperate to take up residence
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More good news………
The dollar dropped below 100 yen today. It has not been there since 1995. What is significant about that? It represents the 1-1 ratio point where when you pull out 5000 yen you are spending 50 dollars ( plus those G0dd**m ATM service charges!). Since, the powers that be that
Continue readingNo beer in the fridge…………
THAT is not the reason I am depressed. I’ve been in a real funk all day. There is no real reason for it, except for the fact that I am slowly coming to the realization that I am slowly being sucked back into something I really have no desire to
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All in all a pretty good day today. I had the day off which is always nice, the S.O. took a break from cleaning long enough to do some retail therapy, and I worked out for a good 45 minutes on the treadmill-IPOD playing- channeling my thoughts and anger into
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A little background: About 4 months ago the rather large English teaching firm NOVA went down hard into bankruptcy. This was after about 11 weeks of not paying its teachers and making excuse after excuse as to why it could not make ends meet. The story got worse when it was
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In my current funk, I’ve been coming to a slow realization. I’ve known it deep down all along, but the romantic in me has always wanted to suppress the reality of it. Because when you accept the fact that relationships are not about sex-but about power and whose dreams get mortgaged
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Here it comes!
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Spike picked the wrong week to come to Tokyo. After a cloudy day of intermittent rain and then no rain, but no wind-with near 90% humidity-the wind she be blowing. Typhoon 9 ?is coming to town. No complaints on my end-I got a free day off out of it. Inside
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Well today was a day that should have been a good day to go golf, do some sight seeing, maybe even go into Seoul. I should have done any of those things. But I did not. Really did not do much of all, except take it easy, watch movies and
Continue readingTakusan Benkyou………
Taking a fairly comprehensive Japanese test Thursday in an effort to tweak my resume. So I won’t be posting here. I’ll be over here trying to make up for all the studying I should have been doing over the last 6 months…………… After Thursday though……….its Miller Time! Subscribe in a
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