Total cost of hardware 9000 yen. Total time, 8 hours. Result? My mattressless bed frame is now an improvised bench/couch. Don't get me wrong, it's the worst bit of home do it yourself I've done since grade school, but when you're using handsaws and HANDDRILLS you do your best and let steel brackets solve all of your structural woes ( Read more... )

And I haven't been able to. Oh well. Fantastic news, two very good friends of mine will very likely be getting married within 12 months ( Read more... )

but damn if I'm not going to get there with a grin and some scars. I say this with the utmost enthusiasm because in my mind whatever pain befalls you is lamentable, unavoidable, and cherish-able. Some things are of course avoidable to certain degrees with due forethought and a little self-control. However it is still completely true to say that ( Read more... )

And the winner again is Taro Aso for saying stuff I'd have only thought could come from the mouth of Dan Quail if he had the Mr. Smilefy face tattoed on his forehead ( Read more... )

( I was trying to be honest depending on my various moods )

Read Robert D. Kaplan's The Coming Anarchy. It was written in 2000 and I'd say he's nailed the 6 years since he wrote the articles the book is composed of in the 90s. The book itself does not really require any background in International Relations, and while a good knowledge of that, history, or geography would lend itself to a good criticism of ( Read more... )

THE spice coffee. I'd also take ocean blue within blue eyes and the ability to be somewhat desicated without looking like my grandfather ( Read more... )

Ha! Not really, but why the hell not? No I am not drunk, I am not drugged, this is how I am when headache induced insomnia lands furtively upon the thin ice of my super ego's Titanic speed bump. I'm comfortable with this, why aren't you? You always put the onus on me! Listen to the penguins, they speak TRUTH and PROPAGANDA! Forever does the ( Read more... )

( This is a very long rambling discussion with myself. Very long. So long I went out and purchased a DVD drive during the interim of it uploading. Ok not really, but yeah. )

Have I mentioned the irony involved of worrying about not getting good news about a job before one even asks? It really is annoying. Oh well, e-mail has been sent, guess I'll be checking that tonight. Repeatedly. Here's hoping.