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the most noble purpose
Cat: Alright, for your own sake, I’ll be blunt. Why do the Bosses keep ducks? To eat them. So why do the Bosses keep a pig? The fact is that animals don’t seem to have a purpose really do have a...
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can’t ignore it any longer
look what c19 brought home today -a pretty snazzy cap and gown. it’s nothing like the cap and gown i wore when i graduated high school. mine was made of some kind of flimsy poly/nylon blend tissue...
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a little background info
when i crafted my catch up by photo dump post i didn’t give much – or any – detail about my dad’s leg surgery. so i’m gonna fill in a few of the blanks. my dad was out enjoying his last morning in...
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summer’s treacherous a**
“but then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass” - stephen king salem’s lot. i am so ready for september. ok, that’s not totally true. i’m currently eye ball deep trying to plan our...
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the end is nigh
it’s getting to the end of the school year and that means it’s time for everything that needs to get done to get crammed in. starting with the last band performance of the year. except it’s not...
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cheerio
today was the cheerio show at school. this event occurs at the end of every school year – it’s a time to recognise and say goodbye to students and faculty who are leaving. the biggest group of...
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born this way
tonight was the monologue and song competition for secondary students at the kids’ school. both boys participated. s13 performed a monologue and chan was part of a skit directed by one of his...
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better with age
last year there was a post on the oprah blog that listed 24 things that get better with age. 24 seems an odd number. 25 would be better. i’ve got an excellent idea as to what number 25 should be,...
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graduation
graduation was last week. it was an awesome evening and somewhat emotional. i went to last year’s graduation and thought i was prepared for this year’s. but i was wrong. turns out watching other...
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movin’ on
“maybe it’s human nature to think one’s own situation is the unique and incomparable one, the transcendent exception.” ~ sue monk kidd the mermaid chair chan and i left chiang mai yesterday and the...
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yoyogi park
tokyo – day one. (i’ve done the planning for this vacation with the help of the many people who have taken the time to rate must see attractions in tokyo.) today we started with yoyogi park. getting...
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sumida-ku
you know how way-back-when when someone had their vacation pictures processed and then forced you to look through them all? that might be what my tokyo posts turn into. the goals for today’s outing...
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ryogoku and akihabara
we’re still rocking the can’t get ready and leave the apartment before noon thing so snackfast (that’s snack/breakfast – you know, just a little something to tide us over until we could find something...
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ghibli museum and some parasites
we were out of the apartment by 9:30 this morning. it was so impressive. but by the time we managed to get on the train at the station it was almost 11. the early start had been blown because of...
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wild goose chase
today’s agenda included searching far and wide for funky flavored kit-kats, the pokémon center, eating sushi, and maybe catching a movie. i was determined that we would make it through at least one...
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friday trifecta – part one
any trifecta worth it’s weight will require one post for each or its ectas. so three posts are coming up. wednesday when we went to the ghibli museum and the parasitalogical museum we were also meant...
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friday trifecta – part two
after the niagara curry house we headed to the cup noodles museum, because how could a trip to japan be complete without a visit to a museum all about the creation of cup noodles? this museum got a...
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friday trifecta – part three
turns out two is not too many ramen noodle museums to visit in one day. we didn’t eat any ramen noodles at the cup noodles museum we just created some to eat later, but at the shin-yokohama raumen...
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alive and mostly well
we made it to america and i still have a japan wrap up post to write, but it has pictures to go along with it and right now photos are proving to be a bit of a challenge. one of the first things we did...
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good-bye tokyo
i hadn’t really made a plan for our last day in japan. we needed to be out of the apartment by 10am and michael, a16 and s13 weren’t due to fly out until 23:30 or so. we could store our luggage near...
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