Here is our dog, Tevye trying to get some shuteye before Makoto comes storming in. Tevye likes to sleep on the couch. This morning, I found him asleep on top of this tiny pillow.

And here is a top down view:

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last December as a company perk and to improve communication within the TheJapanShop.com team, I decided to buy all employees (that is, myself and Pam, my sister) an iPhone. Having succumbed to all the hype, we came up with good rationalizations why such a purchase would be necessary. All the way to the [...]

While thumbing through the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, I found out Kilobyte should be abbreviated as KB. I had always preferred Kb (with a lowercase ‘b’) just because ‘KB’ seemed like an abbreviated ‘KGB’ abbreviation.
However, according to Oxford, ‘Kb’ stands for Kilobit (1,024 bits) and ‘KB’ is Kilobyte (1,024 bytes). [...]

“Yumi,” I said the other day, “look at the Hanafubuki.” Our dogwood tree was dropping its pinky white flowers resembling the Japanese ‘hanafubuki‘ of the sakura cherry tree blossoms.
She said in disgust, “I can no longer enjoy flowers showering down after how you say hanafubuki before blowing your nose.”
It has become something of a [...]

For reasons I don’t want to go into, we had to buy a new server (this week) to replace the new server (last week) for TheJapanesePage.com. Turns out the memory was too low to support our needs. Instead of 1and1 saying, “Sure Clay, I’ll just stick a couple of gigs in there for [...]

On the pleasant scale of 1-10, it’s not good.
I’ve had what’s called Post-Nasal Drip for some time. It means waking up sometimes coughing or not being able to breathe well. Recently, it hasn’t been very bad, but after a friend got his Snot Pot, I thought I’d give it a shot.
It seems to [...]

I have a ton of TJP work to do with the new server (we are right in the middle of moving theJapanesePage.com to the new server and CMS), but I had to post this.
This morning, I took my parents-in-law to the airport.  This morning means 2 AM.  We got there around 3:45AM and waited for [...]

Yumi’s parents arrived safely, but her father’s laptop did not.
Apparently it got lost during the confusion of the security check just before boarding the flight to Florida. I’ve been on the phone with this-or-that airline and this-or-that Lost and Found and this-or-that TSA, but so far, nothing. The sad thing is, the laptop [...]