Chapter 5 now has video! Check out the TJP page here.

Last night, Yumi, for the first time in days, turned on the TV for some adult programming (the News).  She was amazed to hear Makoto say, 「みたい」 (mitai I want to see).
But I, ever the vigilant papa, noticed a prominent scowlplay_w2(”S0162900″)had crumpled Makoto’s face while mommy cheered.  He wasn’t just saying 「みたい」 but 「ない」 too.  [...]

I’ve been working with Brian Franklin for the past few weeks on creating an article for TheJapanesePage.com and listing his new CD at TheJapanShop.com.
The 尺八 shakuhachi is a Japanese bamboo flute often heard at festivals and recently on TV and film–The Last Samurai, for example.
His article finally went live a few minutes ago here.  And [...]

Makoto, Megumi, and I were waiting for mommy in the car this morning.  We waited and waited and waited more.  She had to fold laundry or… so she says.
She entered the car saying, 「ごめん！遅くなった。」
Makoto, parroting her almost successfully, said, 「ごめん！遊んだ。」
It was right out of the pages of Crayon Shinchan.  Mommy was not too happy [...]

There is a performance issue. This means, the site is running a heavy load all too often. It is the same server as before but with different software and databases.
We think it has something to do with the new forum. The techs will work on optimizing the forum database and we’ll see…
Other [...]

I’m sitting here biding my time and biting my nails waiting for the two developers to fill me in what’s happening. They are working hard at backing up, converting, and then restoring user data, blog data, group data, and forum data. This is a huge and complicated job, but it looks like it [...]

Literally.
I think Buckwheat and Land Shark were on the last time I watched Saturday Night Live.
Last night I watched a few of the SNL shorts on Hulu.com.  Has the quality of the skits tanked or have I just ‘matured’?  This one had a singer with a great voice, well done music, and great special effects, [...]

Makoto awoke around 5 this morning crying out, 「見たい！見たい！」 “I want to see!  I want to see!”.  At first I thought he was saying, 「いたい！」  “It hurts!,” but as the crying subsided it was clearly, 「見たい！」.  After a few sobs he said, “Dora” and then “Diego.”
Makoto has really enjoyed Dora (the Explorer) and Diego (the [...]

I use Vonage for the store toll free number.  Last week I started having Vonage forward calls to my cell phone.  One small problem: I hang up on every customer.
The most annoying thing is when a call comes from someone not in my contact list the button to the left is ‘hang up’ and the [...]