Far East Cynic

Cultural 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

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Knee 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

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Breakfast 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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The Soccer Mom navy……….

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

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Exercise 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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I'm wondering the same thing myself!

Jakartass poses an interesting question: “How come A blog dedicated to cats that look like Hitler can get 38,000 hits in two months whereas it took me ‘only’ two years to approach that figure?” Enquiring minds want to know! Subscribe in a reader

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I’m wondering the same thing myself!

Jakartass poses an interesting question: “How come A blog dedicated to cats that look like Hitler can get 38,000 hits in two months whereas it took me ‘only’ two years to approach that figure?” Enquiring minds want to know! Subscribe in a reader

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Fun's fun, but I'm done!

Today was a quick trip in to close out computer accounts and such, say how much fun it was working here (lying through my teeth…), and get the hell out of dodge. Back at the hotel by 12, thought seriously about plunking down the bucks to play Turtle Bay, decided

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Fun’s fun, but I’m done!

Today was a quick trip in to close out computer accounts and such, say how much fun it was working here (lying through my teeth…), and get the hell out of dodge. Back at the hotel by 12, thought seriously about plunking down the bucks to play Turtle Bay, decided

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Good and bad technology…..

Well, one day out of the barn over at Sourrain’s and I think she already gave me a “BVR bitch slap” ( literally one across the international date line….).I think I’ve either been insulted or insulted her. Oh well, if you are going to go around watching what you say……you

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