Who said this was a cooking blog, anyhow ( Read more... )

Despite verging on sickness, due to two straight nights of bad habits and a delicate constitution in general (not enough sleep + 2 beers and 2 glasses of wine + a dinner of junk food), I just had to clean my apartment. The gas space heaters make a surprising amount of dust.

But, today is setsubun, after all, traditional spring cleaning day, in ( Read more... )

Which I do. Of course ( Read more... )

I seem to have contracted some sort of rash. I'm very itchy in many places, some of them fairly private. The only interesting thing about it, really (and it's not even interesting) is that two of the welts are nearly identical, symmetrical, on the insides of my upper arms ( Read more... )

Hrm... okay then, no photo. Well, go to photos.yahoo.com/gypsyboykyle, it ought to be the first one in "All Gypsyboykyle's Photos ( Read more... )

It's the cord ( Read more... )

I'm better now. Optimism is a much more regular appearance on my heads-up display. I've decided to stay the long-haul, as originally intended. And in so decided, realized that said decision is an interesting möbius-strip of logic and introspection. Or perhaps it was a "catch 22?" If I could have made the decision, I would have calmed down. But I ( Read more... )

(By the way, this reposting is largely for the benefit of René and Lucinda. Because I care.) (Seriously, though ( Read more... )

I still <3 wireless piracy ( Read more... )

So: I'm in Japan. Weird. But the weirdest thing, as I keep saying, is that it's not so weird. I mean, don't get me wrong: Japan'll never let you forget that you're in Japan, make no mistake. But after having lived here before, in my adulthood, followed by several continuous years of internatonal travel and displacement, basically it's not quite the ( Read more... )