Monthly Archives: February 2004

Valentines In Hiroshima

Japanese busses are made for Japanese people. Even beer doesn’t help much in these situations. These situations call for Night Formula Contac and a Jack chaser (or four)… Here’s the whole crew (from left to right): Pyon-pyon, Peek-a-boo, Ralph(read caption … Continue reading

Posted in Action

Best O’ Luck, “Dirt Dog” Dempsey!

Despite the smile, we all knew that Chris was absolutely livid. We could see it in his eyes. To Chris, The only one of us still living in Santa Barbara: Good luck this weekend! I expect a full report on … Continue reading

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Penonpen Ramen

“Penonpen Ramen… Penonpen… Hmmmm.” I pondered the katakana as we sat at a small ramen-ya hidden next to Hita’s giant koban and in back of a huge pachinko parlor. “Penonpen, penonpen, penonpen.”. And then it popped into my head. “Is … Continue reading

Posted in Food

Behold… A Five-Assed Monkey!

Today was the day of the brand spankin’ new Ubuyama Hoikuen’s Rakusaishiki (Opening Ceremony). There were no good photo ops, but I will eventually take and post pictures of this great new pre-school which will merge Ubuyama, Nambu, and Hokubu … Continue reading

Posted in Strange Words

My Girls

…Mmmmm… American Football wa cho-umai daro! This weekend I finally got to meet some of the wonderful girls that I teach (via computer, and check out this description of me. not my best picture or profile, I suppose.) at Daiichi … Continue reading

Posted in Education

Oh Sh*t

(This type of snow isn’t too hard to drive in. When the road is completely covered with a white layer and frozen and severely sloped. With regular tires and 2WD, you’re in trouble&#8230 Is the song (by Pharcyde) that comes … Continue reading

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All Systems Go

Finally Higo Blog and C. Buddha’s Hasty Musings are up and running and once again, fully functional after one long postless week. You may have noticed that comments were inaccessable, and that we were not updating. Well, the problem has … Continue reading

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