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    Just a thought…

    Maybe I can appeal tomorrow’s Concentration Time by pleading time proactively served by my relatives at Manzanar… I really did try to get work done today, but I was too…

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    whereupon, I rant.

    I’ve put up with the various quirks and idiosyncrasies common to westerners working in corporate Japan for quite some time now and I think I’ve done very well, overall. But…

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    Never Say Die

    It would be pretty fun to check this out with my brother and sisters: Goonies 20th Anniversary Celebration Combined, we must have watched that movie at least fifty times. Plus,…

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    Impoltant!

    Recently, dealing with changes due to the new fiscal year have taken up my time at work, and today was no exception. Into my Inbox flies a matter of great…

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    Hitori de Hanami

    Yesterday was my company hanami. I didn’t feel much like drinking from noon, so I went at around four-fifteen. It’s only about fifteen minutes up to the top of Magata-yama,…

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    Tupelo Honey

    Was listening to Van Morrison late last night and got caught up in memories when the said track played. When he first started his practice, my father often accepted barter…

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    Playing with fire

    I just reviewed a technical journal describing recent work-related accidents in our industry (electronics manufacturing) and came across an incident I coincidentally heard about from another source a few weeks…

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    On Incompetence

    Thou art a vile pimple on the arse of humanity, yet it pains to smite thee thusly… Were it not for the heinous afflictions suffered unto thine colleagues, thou might…

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    True Grit

    The guy I work across from, Angry Hiro, spent the whole day teaching a particularly inept vendor a lesson by yelling at them on the phone for ten hours straight.…

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    E-mailed memo to self

    Sender: Justin Yoshida Subject: razor blades bring them to work. It’s not what you think, whatever that is. I want to use them to improvise cutting blades for a Thompson…