On Saturday, I woke up at around 7:45 expecting my girlfriend to be over by 8. She was late... she finally got here by around 8:30ish and I was starving to death. She usually makes breakfast in the morning for us, so once we got into the kitchen she screamed super loud, and I was more or less frightened by her scream until I figured out what she ( Read more... )

I went to Mr. Shimas and talked to him about my sudden tone-deafness... he got his guitar out and had me try matching the notes, and the looks on his face were telling to say the least. I told him to be perfectly frank about it and he was (as he usually is). There was one sign of hope, however. As opposed to two days ago, yesterday I was able to ( Read more... )

I've realized over this last week that I have had a serious case of good things and a serious case of bad things going on simultanously in my life. I realized the quickest way to talk about it would be to do something stupid like this rather than type it all up unmethodically (which will probably happen anyways ( Read more... )

My guitar:

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I went to Mr. Shima's after work yetserday to work on my guitar. I ended up doing a bit of a marathon from 5-9... and man did it take its toll! It was super exhausting. It was extremely satisfying, though. Mr. Shima went to dinner at about 6:30 and got back about an hour later and I just kept going on the thing. There's still a lot of work done, ( Read more... )

Billy Mays, what will the world be without you?

I had work on Saturday which resulted in the obligatory monday off. I called miyuki and asked if she could help me at the studio. Since it is all the way in Akage and it was gonna take some time, I agreed to buy her lunch in exchange. So we ended up driving to the Himi coast. We had some handmade udon, which was really good. I wanted to find some ( Read more... )

Sometimes you see an American Telecaster in Japan for $300 and don't buy it. And sometimes you go back the next day because you realize how retarded you were only to find that it's been sold. There was $1000 to be made ( Read more... )

I glued the two top pieces of wood together and cut the basic shape of my guitar top out this last week. I wanted to do more, but Mr. Shima is busy preparing for a blue grass festival that is happening this weekend. I can't wait to start really working on the thing ( Read more... )

So last week Monday I had my first day participating in a local thing where people gather to play sports or do other activities-- the board of education wanted the ALTs of Tonami to participate. It ended up being just Kim and I participating. Anyways, I met some new friends there and ended up being in a couple of newspapers ( Read more... )