Started with me visiting my Mom and brother in Texas (at least I think it was Texas… had the sense that it was “home…”) There was an earthquake and I was apparently injured as I had a gash cut across the right-side of my ⋯

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"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." Napoleon Hill "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we ⋯

​And yet another year…

Conservative, bureaucratic, old-fashioned, dinosaur are all words that immediately come to mind when I think about Japanese firms. Some other words would be irrational and frustrating. Before I go into a tirade against ⋯

It’s Murphy’s Law if you don’t get the joke in Japanese If you miss the punch line to a Japanese joke, don’t feel bad. It’s simply unrealistic to use something as elusive as humor to measure your ability to understand a foreign ⋯

I awoke this morning only to remember some very vivid fragments of some frightening dreams. I dreamed that I was in a big earthquake. I found myself in bed when the shaker struck my home. I had the sense that I was on the 2nd ⋯

The new year is officially upon us! We have already celebrated the old and new. We acknowledge the mistakes and triumphs of the past year and look anew at the year 2012. Last year, I managed to get my weight down to 103Kg (227 ⋯

Below is the poem that I recall was one of the many first lessons that continue to provide motivation to all my endeavors. I can hope that it can encourage you to do the same. TRY AGAIN By: William Edward Hickson circa: ⋯

Here’s an article to think about: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110419hn.html (Who pays for nuclear nightmare?) Seems like bullshit to me… The Japanese people have historically taken it up the ass with gritted ⋯

U.S. Civil War: What if? By GWYNNE DYER LONDON — It’s not much as anniversaries go, but most of us won’t be around in 50 years, so we’ll have to settle for the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. The ⋯

What!??!! This is outrageous! What are these buffoons at TEPCO thinking??? According to the Japan times, they plan to (or currently have) dump over 10Ktons of contaminated and irradiated water into the ocean! Not only that, but ⋯

It’s been 24 days since mother-nature re​leased the M9.0 quake that was shortly followed by the 14m high (37.9m in some places) tsunami upon Japan. After the first week, things were limited and uncertain. The flow of ⋯

While visiting the mall over the weekend with my girlfriend, another large aftershock visited the popular shopping megaplex. ​I watched a mother grab hold of her infant and clutched him closely to her chest as the overhead ⋯

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It feels almost like last month, I was preparing for the new year of 2010. And now, we are only a month away from the year 2011! Time does seem to slip away when you are busy with life and work. I have been toiling away at a ⋯

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Once more Autumn has returned to remind us of the coming season. In another month or so, the trees will begin to change colors from the greens to the spectrums of ​yellows, oranges, and reds. We will soon be showered by leaves ⋯