Living the so called life in the Tokyo sabaku..
20050728.1000 Depart Hiroshima, destination TaiPei
20050728.1130 Arrive TaiPei
20050728.1640 Depart TaiPei, destination LAX
20050728.1405 Arrive LAX
20050728.1715 Depart LAX, destination STL
20050728.2252 Arrive STL
Those are all local times of course. Relative time is closer to about 28 hours of total travel time. I am really hoping for some upgrades. Flying cattle class really is a bitch.
As the last entry mentions, I went camping with the aikido club. We went to a local camping hot spot, Yorosan ( yoro mountain.) A 45 minute bus ride followed by a 30 minute car ride, or if you are a student, a 2.5 hour hike (close to 15 miles) up the mountain.
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Ok ok ok ok. It is really hot here. Today is topping 95f with near 60% humidity. That just makes it really miserable. Why can’t this country have central ac?
On that note, I am going camping tonight. The aikido students at saino high school left this morning to venture to the top of a local ‘mountain.’ There are campgrounds and I think a lake or river to swim in. Anyways, I will be joining 35 students tonight for an evening of jo and bokken/bokuto training and even more tomorrow before returning in the afternoon. I am looking forward to it.
Ok.. system upgraded to MT3.2, 20050720 nightly build.. let’s see how it works..
Well I just finished reading the new Harry Potter book. Not too bad of a read, I am not for sure how I feel about it yet though.
Some spoilers follow, so if you expect me not to ruin it, you are wrong.
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The Orion Nebula. This is one of the coolest hubble pics I have seen in a while.
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Taken fron the NYTimes.. I would link back to it, but you have to register.. anyways.. more inside.
Continue reading ‘Preventing ID theft..’
As digital as our(my) lives is, I ask this question.. what are you reading right now? And what was the last thing you read. Let me clarify by saying: newspapers, blogs, websites, pdf’s, ebooks and digital mediums do not count. Magazines and books.. more so books.
Currently I am reading Quicksilver. Good book but damn it is long and difficult to read at times. Typical Stephenson.
The last book I read was Dune. Quite a good read.
Customizegoogle firefox plugin. Removes ads from gmail and a lot of other functionality.
I have been using some of the greasemonkey scripts to do this, but have found they do not work that well. This one does. So all you firefox+google users should install it.