今日の放課後、中学三年生の生徒達と高飛びをやってみました。楽しかったが、僕はあまり上手に跳べませんでした。一方、生徒達は皆んなかなり高い位置まで行けました。僕の最高記録は１３０センチですが、もっと高く跳べられるようになるかな。

A fun little game on one of the forums that I frequent:

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Although I enjoyed the storm the night before last, it really messed the trains up quite a bit yesterday. Most trains were so off schedule that they'd go 20-30 minutes over the original posted arrival times. Since it's continued to rain since that night, I wouldn't doubt things are still pretty messed up with the train lines. Because of that, I've ( Read more... )

Not sure what's going on, but there's a siren going off. Not an emergency vehicle siren but a building siren. Dunno if it's for a break-in or something happened, but I can hear it pretty clearly going off in the distance. It's not very loud, though, so it's probably relatively far from where I live. (Meaning, I'd like to go over and take a peek to ( Read more... )

A storm rolled in about an hour or so ago. Probably the best one all summer. It's been raining pretty hard, but what really makes the storm enjoyable for me is the magnitude of the thunder. Some are rolling sounds, but quite a few have boomed like you wouldn't believe.

So happy right now. d(=^w^=)b

Been watching quite a few movies since the beginning of the vacation. Most good, one laughably awful. Some of the movies that I can remember off the top of my head ( Read more... )

Been playing a lot of FFTactics on the train ride to and from work, so I thought I'd drop an update for those of you who are interested in knowing my progress.

Ramza
Level: 99
Jobs to Master: Summoner (lv. 6), Dragoon (lv. 1), Bard (lv. 1)
Jobs to Unlock: Samurai, Mime, Dark Knight

BryceLevel: 86 ( Read more... )

Since it's required for work, I went in for my health exam today. For the most part all went well, so I'm happy. Although it kinda sucked having to pay around 14,000 yen for it (roughly $140), at least my company will reimburse me with my next paycheck ( Read more... )

Kinda ecstatic at the moment. Last week the students of the Computer Club gave me some web addresses they thought I'd be interested to look at. I had hoped to check the sites out sooner, but that didn't happen since I've been pretty all week so I finally got around to checking it just now. What they had given me was the address to a site that ( Read more... )

My students are funny. Today, during the free talking lessons, they picked out the topic 'Food' (there were four topics available, the other three being 'TV', 'Movies', and 'Animals'). In the three minutes that we had to chat about food, I asked them what their favorite foods were. Of course none of the foods were ordinary, nothing extravagant; one ( Read more... )