I get the Monday edition of Investor’s Business Daily which I receive each Saturday—it is always fun to see two days ahead in the future. Reading it this morning*, I found a short article about a new craze in Japan called Eternal Poppety-Pop.
Apparently, many people find popping the bubbles in bubble wrap to be shear [...]

This morning I was woken by Hana licking me right on my chops.
Drifting between Sleepyland and Good-Morningland, I was a little confused about what was happening.
The incident got me thinking of a time when Hana and Tevye were puppies. They loved to show their puppy love back then; any face within five yards was fair [...]

Previously, I mentioned some minor troubles with the iPhone I bought last December.  Last week I finally sent in the last loaner and received my second ‘real’ replacement iPhone.  I had two loaners and two ‘new’ phones in the last month or so.  Including my original phone from December, that means the current phone I [...]

Yesterday we noticed a little rumbling in the sky. I kept saying ‘thunder’ to Makoto and he quickly matched the sound of the word with the sound in the sky. Yumi did the same with かみなり kaminari.
We didn’t think much of it until suddenly the wind and rain really picked up. Looking [...]

Too late. Makoto managed to text message and call my sister. He also found out how to get to the camera function. Here are his unedited masterpieces:

And here is the only picture that actually had an object in it—his foot:

I’m not sure if he is ready for the mainstream yet, but even [...]

Our Loverly Neighbor

 
We moved to our house I guess four years ago now. Pretty soon thereafter we got to know a few people in the neighborhood. Everyone we met was just as nice as could be. However, we were repeatedly warned about a certain neighbor from heck. He was [...]