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You go away for a week…..and look what happens!
I have not even been away from the land of the rising sun for a week, and I find myself in trouble big time. CDR Salamander has tagged me with a meme: MEME: An idea that, like a gene, can replicate and...
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I’m reading on a jet plane!
Back in the right hemisphere again. Its great to be home! One thing about spending 16 hours on airplanes each way, it definitely lets you catch up on your reading. It was also interesting to be back in...
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A really sad and poignant story
Neptunus Lex has an amazing story about the power of two things: the ability of the internet to connect people who would otherwise never know about each other, and the power of friendship and devotion...
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The rainy season has begun….Friday beer and babes.
For those who do not know, end of May/ all of June is the rainy season here in Japan. The first week of July it ends and for the next 3 months after that it becomes HOT! And here its not just the heat,...
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Blogging a little too much? This may help!
Stumbled across this while surfing. I think I might need this. His name is Kai Chang and he’s an autoblogger user. “You have a life. AutoBlogger helps you live it.” Its pretty funny. A lot of truth...
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Nothing good ever happens after midnight!
It has taken me all morning to sit up straight. Tell me again, why do people drink shots? I would rather take my time getting drunk. Thus I usually only drink beer after beer after beer. I really don’t...
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The welfare state.
Warning notice! Views expressed in this article are probably going to offend some members of the military, some Filipino’s and just about every US Government civilian employee employed overseas....
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Knowing what it is like to get kicked in the teeth.
After that last, rambling, wreck of a post, I had thought about posting something funny today. Then I got to work and opened up my e-mail: the son of a friend of mine passed away on Saturday. I am...
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I hope this is a fashion trend that spreads.
Was watching NHK at lunch time today. Due to some appointments was unable to watch ?????? so I missed getting a look at Vanilla Mood. Instead got to watch the Japanese Diet in Session. They, like the...
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Return of the (not so) native.
He’s back! Phil over at Expat at Large has finally found his way home. He’s been MIA since the middle of May when he went to Sydney. Ordinary Gweilo and Mia and others have been wondering what happened...
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Wow, I can’t believe it.
Anne Bancroft is dead. Wow. Most remembered for her role in The Graduate, people tend to forget that she had a varied and quite successful career both on screen and on stage. She was in the Miracle...
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Getting kicked in the teeth (Part II)
It seems like all I am writing about this week is death. As I reported to you earlier, a friend of mine lost his son last Saturday. A vibrant and smart young man, who was taken away long before his...
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You’re always winning when Kim Jong Il’s boys are losing.
It was a great night last night. Japan beat North Korea 2-0 in a world cup qualifier. The last goal was particularly satisfying as the Japanese player went mano y mano with the goalie, faked him out...
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What goes around ( the blogosphere) comes around. PLUS Friday beer and babes!
In a world of over 6.5 billion people it always amazes me when unrelated people’s lives interact. Such was the case between me and Mark over at Gardner in Korea when because of work and blogs our lives...
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I’ve put this off long enough
He tasks me. The bubbleheads, they haunt me and task me with more thinking than I am capable of. The Geezer demands answers, yesterday (actually day before yesterday). Yep, you guessed it, I’ve been...
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Oops! I wasn’t ready for this yet!
The S.O. is a smart woman as I have noted before. We had a good round of golf today, She came back from a 7 stroke deficit on me to narrow it down to 3 strokes. She even chipped in for a par on a more...
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Multi-tasking
If you have tuned in looking for an update on the War of the Roses, alas there is no news to report. Today was as if “the conversation” had never occurred. S.O. got up, went to work and was just as...
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Jumping Jehosaphat! What the hell were those boys thinking!
Any one who spent time around Naval Aviation in “the good old days” ( Namely anytime prior to 1991 and the witchhunts and crucifixions that followed…) remembers Grampaw Pettibone. Gramps as he was...
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Point, Counterpoint
There is a certain logic here: Then again, who ever heard of a nice looking Democrat woman? Don’t believe me? Check this out!. Beautiful to look at that, then they open their mouths and wreck the...
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The real meaning of "The human capital strategy".
Its starting, albeit slowly, give it a few years to spread to all the services: Seems like we have been here before…….. Subscribe in a reader
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