Far East Cynic

The dilemma……..

Being here in North Carolina is a mixed review. Its nice to be with family and yet at the same time it is an accusation of sorts. Each time I return I can see that my mother is having a harder and harder time remembering things-yet one question she always

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Take me out to the ball game!

Writers block! I’ve been back for 3 hours and I should have finished this post a long time ago, but I just could not bring myself to start it ….for a whole bunch of reasons. I’ll try to explain. Went to the ball game last night. True to form, I

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California Dreaming

I’m in and sort of over my jet lag. Got done with business a little early today-what to do? Decided to go to the ball game tomorrow night and opted for 9 holes of twilight golf. Over at North Island. Which was interesting since they have changed the layout of

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Retail Therapy……..

“Don’t increase my job.” I hear this line every time after I come back from one of my extended sojourns into la-la land and have to re-invade the perfectly sterile environment the S.O. creates in our place. Its a reference to the fact that I have tendency to drop things,

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Smell the roses………

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. –Ferris Bueller It is so good to be home. Japan, at least, seems like home. Korea- I’m not sure what it seems like, but I’m always happy to see it in

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Just in case you were wondering……

How the work has been going this week. I refer you back to here. Hemlock’s advice still holds-1 year later. Subscribe in a reader

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What a week!

Rumours of my demise are greatly exaggerated. However, due to the fact that my laptop keyboard was not working so well…..(spilled beer seems to inhibit the free flow of electrons)AND the effects of five 14 hour days in a row-blog posting just had to go to the back of the

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Do you know the way…….

To anywhere but Incheon today? As I got to the airport I heard an announcement for a flight to Vienna. Now that sounds like fun! Today is the beginning of O-bon week here in Japan. That means that all 147 million Japanese , are trying to leave the country. A

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There is only so much……

Virtual memory available. I’m leaving for Korea early tomorrow morning. Taking the S.O. to a much promised jazz concert today and trying to get my I-pod set up with a ton of new downloads. Its squeezing out posting on the surge, the candidates, my sex life or lack thereof, and

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Takusan 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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