Posts from — January 2004

Don’t be alarmed by strange layout errors while I monkey with the stylesheets.

In the meantime, please listen to the Green Acres theme song in French again and again and again (scroll down for MP3).

That is, I *believe* this is a classic Honda S800. Am I correct? Usually there are 2 of them in this garage. One must be getting a workout.

Inari on Yoshida-yama. I had to take two pictures and combine them to get the mountain and fox correctly exposed. It’s cheating.

We ate there again yesterday (see previous entry here) after the baby care class. Mixed vegetable and avocado sandwiches on the left, tofu burger on the right. Plenty big enough for a gaijin appetite.

We have asked not to be told in advance whether our baby is a boy or girl, so we have to come up with male and female names. We have already decided on the name if it’s a girl, but we are stumped for boys names. Japanese and/or Western in any combination of first and middle names is OK.

Family name: Ferry (フェリー)
I’m Danish on my mother’s side, Irish-American on my father’s side.

I wrote two more silly intros for this entry, but the truth is we are really excited: We’re having a baby, and it’s due at the beginning of March. Today we went to a class where the fathers were invited to join, and I learned how to — and how not to — bathe and change a baby. I also tried on the pregnancy simulator sandbag smock. The little handbook I’m carrying is the “boshi techo”, a guide and appointment book for pregnancy and early childhood development issued by the health services department of the city.

Email me for the other silly intros.


True story: My father dropped me on my head on the floor the day after I was born.

A giant Kanji, “大” (”Dai”), is writ with fire here every August 16 in the Gozan Okuribi Festival. There is a man standing in the center for size reference.

I found something interesting today. Can anyone who knows the real thing tell me if these are actual coffee cherries growing in Kyoto?

The shopping mall kind, not the fancy wa-fu salon kind.

Trying to fit it all in…

Another one here.