Where to pick up? I have a new cell phone! And it’s even in Saints black and gold! It’s been fairly cool here lately, more like late fall than early spring. And I’ve had the pleasure of going to a Japanese dentist!
It started last Tuesday and a filling fell out and part of my tooth [...]

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The next day my baby came. Met her at the station and showed her to the hotel where we dropped our luggage off. We then headed out to lovely Matsushima. It’s a series of small islands, most too small to do anything but look at, covered with small pine trees in a bay on the [...]

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So it’s taking me a long time to put this together. I was planning to do the whole vacation in one huge post, as this is the 200th post I’ve made on this blog, but it’s really just too much. So, you get the first half today and, most likely, the second half around Friday-ish.
Herein [...]

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I’ll take The Rapist for $500, Alex!
I’m not quite sure what a Judo Therapist is or what they do, but I’m pretty sure that I don’t want to find out personally. And now that my juvenile humor is out of the way…

No update last night because, by the time I made it to the [...]

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