Archive for December, 2007

Dear Christine Song by Gary Noland

A good buddy of mine produced a CD last year and this song is my favorite. You can listen to his music–and buy the CD on his website here: GaryNoland.com. Support independent musicians!
Here is Dear Christine:

Here is Gary’s explanation for the inspiration behind the music:
A mutual friend of ours introduced Christine and me. [...]

Makoto in the Studio

Makoto in the Studio

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Strategies for Intermediate Students of Japanese

We will leave for a Japanese festival in Orlando tomorrow morning. I will be sure to post pictures and maybe some video unless of course I forget to take my camera… In such case, I won’t post pictures or video.
Here is an article I’m working on for the new TheJapanesePage.com:
Progressing from Beginner to [...]

No Internet, Know Freedom?

My internet just came back up less than two minutes ago. Previous to those two minutes I was back in the Dark Ages for nearly two hours. That’s right—my Internet was down.
It got me thinking how did people survive without the internet?! Of course I used to be one of those people, but [...]

WordPress is much Easier than Drupal

As you may know we are working hard at moving theJapanesePage.com to a new server. Not only that but moving it from a CMS (Content Management Software) called PHP-Fusion to a CMS called Drupal.
Drupal is currently the most or second-to-most popular CMS out there—but it ain’t WordPress. It is bare bones out [...]

I’m Busy, Busy, Busy

I am not sure if you can tell by the title of this post, but I am busy. December is always the busiest time of the year for the store and this year is no exception.*
On top of that, we are almost set to move theJapanesePage.com to the new server. Yes, we’ve been talking [...]

The Hole and the Dog

This morning, Makoto (who is feeling much better by the way) wanted to play outside.
Looking around we found the following:
Exhibit A:

I said, ‘What manner of beast could have dug such a hole?!’
The perpetrator could very well have been a heffalump or woozle, but looking around we found a more probable culprit. It is a [...]

寝違え A Crick in the Neck

It’s nice to see a few new faces in the ole MyBlogLog thingy. Welcome!
This morning Yumi awoke and couldn’t move her neck. Recently she has been saying のどがいた~い! nodo ga ita~i! which means ‘my throat hurts, darnit!’ (ok, I added the ‘darnit’) We’ve been sharing colds.

But this morning she said 首がいた~い! kubi [...]

Will be Busy for the Next 24 Hours

About a year ago I mentioned I would not be watching Season six of 24 on television but waiting instead for the DVD box set. I don’t see how people can watch only one episode each week and keep their sanity. Pressing ‘next’ to skip the credits with the DVD to get to [...]

Makoto Likes to Line up his Cars

Makoto’s favorite toys are toy cars.  He has a growing collection.  It seems whenever we go shopping we come back with one or five more (they usually come in packs of five).
He doesn’t mind other children playing with any other toy, but if someone touches his cars…  As you can see Makoto loves to line [...]