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solid — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:26:28 +0000

Blogging from an i pad in an apple store in ginza. Fantastic device!

solid — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:10:43 +0000

Blast zoundry!

solid — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:05:52 +0000

Hail!

Here are some pictures that have been hanging around for ages!

Snow on our roof.

In front of a high tec train.

The quiet mountain town we went to for our onsen trip a while back.

IngeniousÂ method of keeping snow off the road. Water is sprayed from cats eye like things continuously.

View from the window of our onsen. That cage on the right contained a couple of bears, which i didn’t photograph for some reason!

Mayumi!

Our drink store.

The traditional finery

The resplendant meal!

Tucking in to the Udon noodles.

Me too!

Snow with bamboo.

Pretty genki around here. Looking forward to popping back in a few months!

haha! they are pretty neat. i look like …

solid — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:38:06 +0000

haha! they are pretty neat. i look like some sort of crazy mountain man!

solid — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:26:40 +0000

Hello all! Happy belated birthday Mama! You prezzy will be a little late im afraid, but it’s on it’s way.

I finally downloaded picasa and the blogging program, so here are the picture from a while back.

Here are a few from the beach when i went up to Mayumi’s family home.

Very pleasant and sunny.

Here are some older ones from Korea.

That thing in the middle of the table that looks like a glistening alien thorax is in fact raw crab.

Mayumi can’t wait to get at the succulent alien spleen.

A fine eatery in Izu, the place we went for the hot springs.

Same place, different angle. they had very good scallops cooked in butter.

At the hotel, dressed in my finery.

Out side in the town nearby. very nice place with old style buildings. It had an area called Perry town after Commodore Perry who aided in opening japan to trade with the west.

Im sporting a touch of a side parting for some reason.

Old house with a mix of Japanese and western aesthetics.

A canon. possible one of perry’s favoured canon for slaying the natives.

A cactus. Perhaps unrelated to Perry.

Delightful cooking pot experience in one of the private onsens.

Mayumi, being small, could completely submerge herself.

Mayumi crafting food at the homestead.

Ill see if i can scrounge up some more photos!

Alls well here!

Indeed a peculiar dream. The other night…

solid — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:40:13 +0000

Indeed a peculiar dream. The other night i had to fight a chap, in some sort of gladiatorial situation, armed only with a spoon. I stabbed him in the thigh with the handle and i believe he died quite unpleasantly. Did i actually slay some dream denizen, who had some manner of real life unconnected to mine? Or was it some mental problem personified?
The trouble with dreams is, they have very little continuity so its very hard to see anything resembling a world that keeps going after we wake up. If we can control and manipulate our dreams then there is nothing actually solid and real in our dream. There is therefore no need for roads, or cars, or potholes. those are requirements of a material world, which the dream world is surely not. Unless you were having your dream on a layer above a sort of base matter, say a dream terrain, and you traveled over blip or bump in it, which manifested itself as a pothole.
On the other hand. For a road to exist there needs to be a set of rules, like gravity and such. But dream rules rarely match up from one dream to the next. So there would have to be a million little worlds each with there own different rules that we visit every night, like a plague of horrifying godlike ghosts, bending matter to our will and leaving a trail of madness in our wake. Actually that would make quite an interesting story if told from the perspective of a dream chap!

solid — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:30:56 +0000

Completely unrelated, but i thought you all might like to see the simply fabulous summer shoe that my friend Andy sported the last time we met. It defies description and sanity.

It puts “crocks” into perspective.

solid — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:23:53 +0000

Hello! Here are some photos from the recent trip to Mayumi’s family home. About half an hour away by bus and situated near the coast it has very pleasant weather and is very close to the beach. We went for about 5 days and had a very jolly time. I didn’t actually take that many photos. And although e\we went to the beach every day i never thought to bring my camera. The beach was very nice. crisp and sunny days and the water was for the most part pretty clean baring the occasional band of detritus that would wash past sometimes. Presumably brought to shore by earlier storms that we have been having. The waves were very strong and Mayumi and I, and sometimes her friends,Â had a great time leaping about in the waves. After swimming we would then go to the bath house nearby and soak in the hot pools for a spell.Â Despite the rampant nudity its very relaxing and after the extremely hot pool i would stagger into the icy cold pool to cool off. Good for the system and gets the old heart going.

Here is the coastline of where we went fishing. interestingly shaped concrete blocks.

This is Maymi and her friends Nororin and Jun setting up the fishing rods. Mayumi caught a puffer fish, but it was too small and not to mention poisonous so we threw it back. Jun caught a crab. I caught nothing…

This is us again enjoying a convivial beer before the start of the BBQ. This was to be a pretty epic BBQ with about 30 of mayumi and her brothers friends.

Early stages of the BBQ. As you can see Mayumi’s Parents have quite a nice garden. In the back it even has a vegetable plot.

The evening wore on, much tasty meat was consumed!

Just before we head back to Tokyo. The chap on the right is Mayumi’s dad. As you can see i invited Alex. The stuff mayumi is poised to pour onto my head is mayonnaise.

It was a great visit! Mayumi’s mum made tons of scrummy food and it was very relaxing.

Thank you for the letter mama! It was ni…

solid — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:11:06 +0000

Thank you for the letter mama! It was nice reading! Mayumi says hello!

my packet just arrived! thanks Tan! we a…

solid — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:21:11 +0000

my packet just arrived! thanks Tan! we are really enjoying the saucisson, so cheers very much for the resupply. the statuette made it almost in one piece. there is a clean break at the neck wich should be easy to glue. i think Mayumi has some paints, but im still not sure what colour as yet. ill show it to her when she gets home tonight!