Bet that title got your attention! Took me a while, but I finally had to deal with an Indian call center this evening. In the process of setting up my computer here, I had to update my Norton Software and anti virus protection. As software companies are wont to do,
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Moving sucks! Just had to get that out of the way, because it does. However, in the process of packing and unpacking I’ve had a great opportunity to review the many different turns my life has taken in the past (not so few) years. I wonder what would have happened
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In the middle of moving this week. Also in the middle of watching Kim Jong Il be an idiot on Japanese TV. Its been all North Korea all the time since the missile launches. So while I’m unpacking, go over to Peking duck and read some of the fine articles
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The North Koreans are make their a$$ bare………….. Who the hell gives Kim Jong Il advice? Obviously they never took a class in how to win friends and influence people? Otherwise, old Kim the D**khead would not be doing this. Here in Japan, it has been all Taepedong, all the
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Today is the 4th of July and I have been thinking about what to say about it. Here I am, an American, living in Japan, committed as all get out to keeping my proudly American ass overseas, in Asia, where life is good. If I had known life could be
Continue readingCultural differences…..-Part I
Today was a very interesting day. S.O. and I packed boxes that we could pack together, namely household goods. We are packing ourselves in order to save money on the move to the new location. The movers will then come and move the goods to new our new abode. One
Continue readingKnee deep in the hoopla………..
Yesterday, I went back to my old stomping grounds. We are deep in the middle of moving this weekend, but we thought we’d take advantage of the weather and see friends since they were having an open base day on Saturday. Played golf, got rained on, then went to see
Continue readingBreakfast with the King
You are the Longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history. You’ve been branded as “Bush’s poodle”. You have gotten the JMSDF/JASDF/JGSDF to deploy overseas in spite of popular opinion against these deployments. You’ve thumped your opponents in a snap election over postal reform. You’ve done a good job making S.Korea
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Lechery, lechery;still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion. A burning devil take them! A friend who is still in the Navy and I were doing some quality drinking the other night. He was bemoaning the outbreak of the what he calls “the morals police”. He had recently been down
Continue readingExercise in futility
While I was in Hawaii I watched the coverage of the Senate debate about the war with utter amazement. I could not understand why the Democrats allowed themselves to lured into something that will only highlight how divided and silly they look and are. Joe Klein summed up the dilemma
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