Nigata; mostly monkeys.

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So it's finally turned into December... although it doesn't feel the least bit different from November. I do admit, though, that the mornings have been getting gradually colder and it has become gradually harder to wake from my bed ( Read more... )

I had recently been told through that the folks from Kita Nihon Newspaper had been looking for meat Akage. This was a while back, maybe a couple of weeks after I was in the Toyama Newspaper ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday was a holiday called "culture day". Incidentally Miya had the day off. Also incidentally, her friend had spent the night the night before after we ate dinner and drank fer a while. So Miya and I made the mistake of deciding to drive to Nagoya. We had no plan and no maps. The way there was quite beautiful, which saved the trip from ( Read more... )

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I haven't been posting on here nearly as much as things are happening ( Read more... )

So a while back I finally got to visit Pat. It was during Silver Week- which is something even more rare than the elusive blue moon. (the next one is in 6 years, and the one after that is still in question). It was basically the last week of the September, which began in Toyama as a super windy week and ended with suposed rain (that we ended up ( Read more... )

So I've decided to get a fresh start on my studio. I had put an air conditioner in it a while back in early July. In doing so, I had to remove the make-shift walls over the windows. After the air conditioning was installed, I had this urge to kinda start over on things. I called Mr. Shima up one day and we went to town on the place. The wall is ( Read more... )

oldest fountain in japan

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The summer this year is great compared to usual-- it's way cooler than it usually is. However, when it gets humid, it's humid... when the humidity goes down, it's border-line cold at times ( Read more... )