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We did a couple fun things last weekend. First of all we went to "Jugfest" which was a chance for jugband festival held on the roof of the 8-floor Join-Us mall, next to Yokohama station. We only stayed for an hour, and in that hour only really saw one of the four stages setup. ( ( Read more... )

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Some thoughts (on food):

- The bread products available in Japan are almost universally incredible. Also, really rather reasonably priced. The basic white-bread that you get at the grocery store is delicious and comes in slices that are each about an inch thick. Also, they sell it ( Read more... )

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Well, I had a long rambling post all ready to go. I proofread it to some extent, I formatted it all nice and pretty, I previewed one last time, then I closed the browser window. Now it is consigned to that place where all lost bits and bytes go. So, instead you (the lucky reader ( Read more... )

Sorry about that last one. I was just too damn tired to type out the full post. More will follow later today.

Well, I figured I should post an update having arrived in Japan safely. So this is it. There's more of a post at my other page on sheeplauncher.net.

To those who haven't figured it out: I am leaving for Japan on March 27th. My birth certificate came through in the 11th hour and I talked to the nice people at the passport place in seattle and they are going to get me the hookup and somehow do my passport in one day on monday. This has burned ~5 years of luck ( Read more... )

So, to those that have been frantically refreshing my LJ page for the last couple months, I give you an update ( Read more... )

And now to bring you up to date on the happenings in the world of Bloom:
-I got a job: I now work for The Driver Training Group as an "IT Assistant." Essentially my purpose is to handle the little stuff (developing a new backup system, switching us to centralized LDAP authentication, etc) so the main IT guy can do the big stuff (developing some ( Read more... )

Observations ( Read more... )

Well I wasn't looking forward to being at school from 1:50PM to 9:30PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but the 2 classes that I need aren't offered at any other time, and I *need* to be taking both of those classes to finish up with my requirements. So I signed up for them anyways, even if it meant basically sitting on my ass for 7+ hours in a row. ( Read more... )