Posts from — December 2005

If so, I’m OK.

I’m upgrading for the first time in nearly three years. Hope to see you, comment spam-free, on the other side. MySQL is backed up, so are files. here goes…

Daiki and Gregory wrestling in front of the tree, Yoshiko’s apple and pecan pies, and the turkey.

A little gallery of recent mobile phone pictures of Greg.

Lots of snow fell on Kyoto overnight and though the day today, the most I’ve seen since I came to Japan. Greg (age 1 year 10 months) and I went to the park and made a snowman. A little keitai phonecam video. Just after this video ends it started snowing hard, very hard, and I had to carry him home because I was scared of him falling. Tomorrow I’ll probably find that there is no snow accumulation in Osaka. That’s what happened last week. It doesn’t seem like there should be that dramatic a difference, but there always is.

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An office building with a highway going through it.
When they moved me to the third-floor “Interchange Office,” I knew my days with the company were numbered. After a month of cars barrelling through my office at full speed, my nerves were shot. But the worst was the trucks — every so often one of the larger ones would clip the corner of my desk, and everything would go flying.

Snow fell Saturday night and Today (Monday). Up here in the north a lot of it remains, but when I went through Kyoto station on Sunday there was hardly any, certainly not accumulating in the street. I’ve been away from the computer for most of the past 4 or 5 days.

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Water that runs out of the tsukubai basin　(well, maybe it’s not really a tsukubia; it’s not used as such, anyway) filters through the stones and drips down into a huge clay pot buried in the ground, and then down into the soil. In the pot, however, equilibrium of water inflow and outflow is maintained, and there is a certain water level, so that the water dripping in from the top hits the surface of the water and resonates with a sound most pleasant. bamboo poles are provided so that you can put your ear to one end, while the other is just over the pot. The sound you hear is like this.

The tree with a trunk so smooth that monkeys (saru) slip (suberu) and fall from it.