Wandering Ueno after three hours of karaoke, I spotted same-day Ayumi Hamasaki tickets — 45 minutes before showtime, ¥5,000 for two. We ran. My first live concert ever.
The blog went quiet for a while… I was on a long-term business trip to Nagoya for about three months, which kept me busy.
A friend I’d played DrumMania with back in high school passed on their DTXPLORER to me. It arrived today, and when I assembled it… it’s enormous.
I wrote a diary entry on Mixi for the first time in ages. Got more responses than I expected — apparently people are still keeping up with it.
This is from a trip to the Ise-Shima area from January 2 to 3, when I visited Daio-zaki Lighthouse.
Two months of past-midnight nights finally over, I made it out for a belated first shrine visit: Meiji Jingu, where a wedding ceremony happened to be underway.
A belated Happy New Year — work has been murderous, and updating the home server’s front-page image was all I could manage. A Shima trip post is owed.
Got the Beaujolais Nouveau. But — disaster — I don’t have a corkscrew. (Embarrassing.
Had some free time so I tried drawing something. Mikan-chan from “Atashinchi.
TV gave me an irresistible urge, so I made enormous stuffed cabbage rolls from scratch — each one packed with a hamburger patty’s worth of meat, simmered for over an hour.
Today I went to Nihon Kogakuin Professional School in Kamata for a visit — Kamiya Akira was making an appearance.
Found this while browsing the web — got a good laugh out of it for the first time in a while.
I’ve got my PC connected to the AQUOS, and the resolution is incredible! Please take a look at this high-resolution image. Click to open full size.
Beautiful weather, so I rode the Tama River path — straight into an absurd headwind that turned every flat into a hill. Knocked out at Futako-Tamagawa, but a riverside lunch saved the day.
Work has been so busy that I hadn’t really cooked for myself at all… Today I rolled up my sleeves (sort of) and picked up some vegetables to cook.
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.
Stocks are down. ————————————- Change from previous day -952.58 (-9.38%) ————————————- Where does Japan go from here? Down 9% in a single day.
Stocks keep falling… The NYSE finally broke below 10,000. The kind of crash that gets described as historic has been happening several days in a row now.
Going through photos, I remembered: back in June I upgraded from a 20-inch to a 37-inch AQUOS — ¥128,000 online. Remember when TVs cost ¥10,000 per inch?