Hayz, Christina, and I got up very early the next morning to drive back to Greenville. Hayz had generously offered to drive me to the airport despite the fact that I had an early flight. We stopped at Cracker Barrel for breakfast where I had my last meal before returning to Japan. It was excellent and inexpensive, much like how everything is in ( Read more... )

Saturday morning, I accidentally slept in and Hayz and Flury went off to breakfast without me. I looked around for them for a bit and then went out for a late breakfast with Whitesides. After breakfast, we met up on the way back to the room to have the delayed Halo game we had scheduled for last year. I was a bit surprised to find so many people ( Read more... )

On Friday, we went into town for breakfast and ate at a small coffee shop which had excellent muffins. We then wandered around town for a bit before going to see a lunch time showing of Mission Impossible 3. It was a pretty fun movie though certainly not on the greatest movies ever list. It’s about what you’d expect it to be ( Read more... )

The next morning, we prepared for the trip to Savanna. By the way, Flury has a nice shower, particularly when judged by Japanese standards. Flury had not thought ahead and had thrown out his milk already, so we skipped breakfast and went to the Flury mansion. It was truly quite extravagant. It’s one of those things that you must see rather than ( Read more... )

As you likely know, I went back to the US for Flury’s wedding a few weeks ago and what a week it was. I can’t put into words how nice it was to be back in the states and to be able to see everyone again. It’s actually taken me a long time to write about this trip because every time I start writing, I get all nostalgic and bummed out that I’m back ( Read more... )

For today’s “How bad was that movie?” review, I will tell you about 13 Ghosts. This movie is about an eccentric man who is trying to make and activate a Lovecraftian machine that can open the “Hell Eye” which is supposedly capable of seeing into the future. Unfortunately, the similarity to Lovecraft’s novels ends there. The movie seems like it’s ( Read more... )

It is time for another “How bad was that movie” review. This time I’ll be reviewing the classic movie Jason X: Jason in Space (2001). This movie greatly resembled Dracula 3000 (2004), but with Jason instead of vampires. The movie opens with Jason getting cryogenically frozen and then being discovered several hundred years later by a professor ( Read more... )

During the two weekends preceding Flury’s wedding, the Hayz and I decided to renew the Furman crew’s hobby of watching bad horror movies. So, this heralds the first episode of “How bad was that movie ( Read more... )

Flury reminded me that I haven’t updated this journal in a while the other night, so here I am. Not much of note has happened recently. I spent the last two weeks at Shidouka doing seminars and preparing for seminars that I won’t be around for. I also messed with them a little. Harmless drawing or grrrriiiim prediction of the future? I hate ( Read more... )

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted to this journal, so I guess it’s time for a long entry. I’ve just been rather busy so I haven’t had time to do it. Over spring vacation, I went to a Jujutsu class. Overall, it was a good experience. It is certainly preferable to the Japanese martial sports I’ve seen so far. I intend to go as regularly ( Read more... )