I went one year without drinking. There were three separate occasions I more or less got pressured into pretend sipping or an aperitif but otherwise I was sober the whole time and didn’t really obsess about it. It took a while for friends and people around me to realize I was dead serious about not [...]
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One of the great things about having remember the milk on the iPhone is portability. You have access to your tasks anywhere with the wonderful official iphone app but it doesn’t have tight integration with mobile specific tasks like call or sms or email someone right? Not quite. The trick is to use custom url [...]
Several weeks ago I spend a few days on Nakagomi Orchard (facebook page) WWOOFing. The idea was to get away from city life and spend time away from technology by volunteering on a farm in exchange for food and board. I never expected to see entrepreneurial spirit in full force. Our host, Nakagomi Kazumasa was [...]
Perhaps the most important thing you can do when you set a goal is to decide what happens after you achieve them or fail in your pursuit. This past three months has been a hectic one in many respects. One of the many things on my agenda was to lose weight. I’m not overweight by [...]
Last week I replaced my office chair with an exercise ball. I actually bought two, one for the home and one for the office. I was looking for more ways to do something about my sedentary lifestyle as a desk monkey. Sales people get to make phone calls and go out of the office (so [...]
My eyesight’s really taken a turn for the worse these last two years. I started wearing glasses for the first time in my life starting this year. When I was a kid I was diagnosed with a mild case of lazy eye where I relied on one eye more than the other. As an adult [...]
The other day as I was heading out to the city and walking to the station, two youths on mountain bikes stopped me in the street. They were dressed in black windbreakers and wearing helmets. It was obvious they weren’t from Japan or at least not completely Japanese because nobody wears helmets. One young man [...]
Don’t have any nuggets of wisdom no sweeping panoramas of life as we know it from this year called 2008. It was a roller coaster ride for certain. From my privy knowledge so far, 2009 will be even more of a roller coaster ride. New Career, New Disappointments It’s been quite a rocky reboot of [...]
Was out the other night with lots of friends I haven’t seen in a while. Caught up some, while seeing how our different lives made us different people while somehow remaining quintessentially the same. Strange how the mellowing effects of age can be sensed in a very real way. It was fun and calming at [...]