Happy New Year everyone! We had a quiet New Year’s Eve at home and got in touch with our Russian mafia roots by eating caviar and drinking champagne.
Posts under ‘Domestic Life’
Christmas Eve in Kofu
Its Christmas Eve, and as usual in Japan its the bigger of the two days of Christmas. I like Christmas Eve a lot myself as it always seems to be a magical day. However one thing sucks, for me it will be a bit lonely. But thats OK as I plan on celebrating in usual [...]
Winter vacation is here, finally
I have been waiting forever for a real vacation. Sure I had a lot of time off during my job troubles last year and earlier this year, but I never could enjoy them. Even my times off on golden week and obon were quite busy and tiring. Well thankfully I’ve finally begun what I can [...]
Soviet Infiltration
A-Yo’s visa application has been approved by USCIS. It only took 7.5
months to get approved! And now it will take another month for them
to transmit the approved petition to the embassy in Kazakhstan and then a couple more weeks for A-Yo to schedule an appointment and jump through
various hoops at the US Embassy [...]
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!
A funny thing happened today at the post office. I went to mail a couple of Christmas packages to America when I noticed there was a tv crew there. Well after spending ten minutes mailing and talking in Japanese I go to leave. Well the tv crew had moved to a table in the front [...]
Tomoko’s Pet
A couple weeks ago, Tomoko saw a spider on her ceiling. Although she panics at the sight of a cockroach, I guess spiders don’t bother her and she left it alone. It’s been hanging out on her ceiling ever since. Sometimes it disappears for a little while, but before long, it’s back on the ceiling. [...]
Vingt-neuf!
I’m 29 today. Frankly, I barely notice my birthday, and if my lovely wife hadn’t been reminding me about it for the last month or so I might have forgotten, at least for most of the day. Thanks to everybody who messages or calls or whatever.
I don’t think I’ll do much of anything today. I [...]
Happy Birthday, Naft!
Happy Birthday, Naft. One year away from the big THIRTY. Frightening.
It seems like just yesterday that we were young, happy-go-lucky kids – playing video games, watching the Longhorns, talking about movies (Yes, Ranmafan – War Games is the greatest movie about computer games set during the Cold War!)
Oh wait… we still do all these [...]
Quiet in Kofu
First of all here is a pic from my birthday trip to Shosenkyo, a place near my home. Very nice.
I don’t know about everyone else but I can’t wait for winter vacation. Life and work really has been so busy lately, but at least the wonderful snow topped view of Mt Fuji from my home [...]
sneaky
