This post is about migrating old blog articles — entries that had been sitting untouched for a long time — into WordPress.

Back home in Nagoya, a long-overdue bowl of Sugakiya ramen. Everyone says chicken wings and miso nikomi udon, but this 290-yen bowl is the real Nagoya specialty.

The day after GO!FES, a classmate’s wedding afterparty in Nagoya — old friends, marriage talk creeping into conversations, and the end of a packed month.

After surviving an 18-month crunch at work, I wandered Nagoya Station and Sakae — the TV Tower nearing the end of its broadcast duty, Matsuzakaya closing, a cityscape about to change.

Back in Nagoya for the holidays, I set up a tripod for the station’s ‘Dream Promenade’ illuminations — only to find the subway below causing camera shake.

First time back in Nagoya in two months: bowling with an old part-time colleague, the Nagoya Festival, and a visit to my old job in Sakae.

Komeda means Nagoya. Common knowledge for anyone from there. They expanded to Tokyo around 2006.

Returning from Obon via the JR Chuo Line: Kasugai to Kamata in 8 hours through mountain scenery completely unlike the Tokaido — all on a Seishun 18 ticket.

Komeda’s new beef stew, tested via staff meal: good beef, irresistible melted cheese — but two slices of French bread isn’t enough, and ¥880 is steep.

The server keeps hanging since I restricted CGI access — and the router logs show port scans. Worst of all, email stops when it goes down. Auction season panic.