When I was changing things around on the site the other day I happened across some of my old posts. It still amazes me how full of excitement I was when I first arrived and how full of cynicism I am now. Not to say that Japan’s a bad place; Sapporo’s been great to me. [...]

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The Nippon Ham Fighters, Sapporo’s baseball team, has just won the Japan Series. And I was there! On my couch! Watching the game!
The Fighters really had a solid team this year with a couple of very, very good young pitchers, solid defence and good hitting. This is the first time they’ve ever won the Series [...]

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Have you ever watched Tom Stoppard’s wondrous play/movieRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead? It’s definitely something that you’ll either love or want to turn off after 5 minutes, but either way the movie comes heavily recommended from this particular way. If I may be allowed a quote
Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense [...]

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So, as you can probably (not) see, the design is slowly changing. Like I said, a lot of it is behind the scenes, so if you experience anything strange, let me know. I just installed a little something that should cut down on all those spam comments I get to not approve, but, as with [...]

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As some of you might have noticed, a few things have changed around here lately! I was getting tired of my old theme, a task since I rarely see anything other than the admin interface, and decided that something new was needed. Thus, darkpad. I’m still undecided on a few things, namely the popup over [...]

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So I had a visitor last week, and she brought a present! A typhoon! And some food and stuff. We had a good time when she was here, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
I rarely pay attention to the forecast for anywhere other than Sapporo; it just doesn’t mean anything to me. Besides, the [...]

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Lovely weather we’re having here. The last two days were so nice too.
Had a great time with Mom here. Had to shove her back on a plane this morning though. More on that when I have a keyboard.
More pics are up. Link’s to your right. The old gallery is going bye-bye, so if you have [...]

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