Today Yumi, Makoto, my parents and I will drive 1.5 hours to pick up Yumi’s parents. They are all excited about the adventure. This is their third time to visit us I believe.
We have plans to visit the Mouse in Orlando. Normally I don’t like rodents, but we think Makoto does.
Here are [...]

Yesterday Yumi and I made a trip to the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) office to check on a question we had about her Green Card. Normally, I’d file any discussion on the INS under イライラ—the ‘what was he thinking?’ files, but I have to say it was very pleasant.
Years ago INS changed its [...]

In posting, that is. I was shocked to notice my last post here was on the 20th. It is nigh high into the 27th as I type. However, I do have an excuse.
I’ve made tremendous progress with customizing Drupal—the Content Management Software that will house the brand new TheJapanesePage.com site. [...]

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. [...]

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 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 [...]

This morning I awoke to a large order that nearly wiped us out of our Josei Jishin magazines. (Thank you!) A few years ago I got the desire to import Japanese magazines to sell at our store. The problem is, to make the shipping charges (which are expensive) worth it, I have [...]

Upon completing the Hiragana PDF eBook, I thought I should have some sort of download manager program to manage the downloads. I found one here for WordPress. After struggling with the database (my server is still MySQL v4 and required a little extra code to get it to work), it is up and [...]

I may have mentioned the town we live in has a Japanese population of one—including my wife.
But there is a thriving community, apparently, in Orlando. A Japanese teacher emailed me about a Japan Festival in Orlando coming up next month. We may try to go down for it. She gave me a [...]

I am fairly new to blogging, but I found Technorati soon after starting this blog. I’ve watched it go from the millions (depressing) to the hundreds of thousands (lower is better, but still depressing), but it has been stagnant recently.
Technorati is kind of like the Google of the blog world. It tracks your progress [...]