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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Friday, June 28, 2002 |
 Mejiro.
Sea change in Master's attitude
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"Moo. It's just a point of view"
Well, I suppose it is. Especially if you're a cow.
(It was a T-shirt, by the way.)
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Yatai (pig's ears)
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Base
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Absolutely, positively the final dollar-related post (well,
perhaps).
Going to eat out in Kure takes on a whole new exoticness
when you have foreign currency in your wallet. It feels almost like a
holiday...
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It might be tempting fate to write this, but I had a very close shave
with my Mac this morning (which is the reason why I came to work an hour
late). When I went to switch the internet radio off, the screen went
blank, and I had to do a reset- a rare experience under the superb Mac
OS X. Anyway, the computer booted back up fine, but my email wouldn't
open- the software said the database needed to be rebuilt. Not an
encouraging sign, especially as the first time round this 'rebuilding'
failed half way through. Anyway, in the end, after a restart and another
rebuild, I got all my mail back, although some mails are now- for some
reason- in unreadable fonts. Methinks a full backup might be in order
tomorrow...
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I've abandoned all attempts to write the Navy article. I have better
things to do with my time than sit staring at a screen while no ideas
come (and, no, they don't include access counters- well, not all of
them). I'll write the damn article at home over the weekend; doing it
here is too difficult, with phones ringing and people talking around
me.
So more time to read the internet now...!
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Get a life? What am I saying? The pursuit of access counter digits
is my life!
(It's back up over a hundred...)
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For some odd reason, the access counter is now back to 87. Not bad,
really; this site might not be very interesting, but still, getting a
full minus 17 views is pretty impressive.
Perhaps I should just get a
life and ignore the access counter...
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In the end, I got fed up and went to the bank to get the dollars myself.
Who would ever have thought that changing money could be so painful?
Even going directly to the bank, getting the money still took time. The
person at the counter took my form, looked at it, and passed it to the
person behind her. Who then looked at it, and passed it to the person
behind him. Who then looked at it, and... see a pattern? In the end, it
took a full fifteen minutes to get a mere 81 dollars.
I'll pay in yen
the next time I go to the base, I think...
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And still the dollar saga continues. Just now was the 'handing over yen'
stage. The 'receiving dollars' stage isn't until this afternoon,
apparently. I'm glad I don't go abroad very often...
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I took an hour off this morning, and so biked to work just around 9
o'clock. What a graphic description of the aging problem facing this
town- I think everyone I saw was over 70! There were almost no cars,
either- it really felt like some sort of holiday camp for senior
citizens. In this town, the friendliest groups are the old people and
the children, so any number of people waved and greeted me, but even so,
I still felt oddly out of place, as if I'd strayed into some strange
parallel world, a living version of P.D. James' 'The Children of Men'.
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Over the 100 mark with the access counter! Next stop 1000!
It might
help, I suppose, if I actually told people about this site...
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