Archive | August, 2005

30 August 2005 ~ 5 Comments

もう一度 (once more)

I’m going to make another concerted effort at improving my Japanese. Japanese is tough, I was going write a few posts on why it is so hard but this humourous (but strangely accurate) essay seems to cover most of what I was to say. This time I will tackle the problem in different and simultaneous [...]

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22 August 2005 ~ 1 Comment

Local summer street fair

View All Summer Fair Photos We went down to the local summer fair last month. It was a small fair running the entire length of a small street ending at the local jinja (shrine). Most of the stalls were targeted at children. There were the usual suspects like goldfish fishing, superball fishing, lotteries for video [...]

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19 August 2005 ~ 2 Comments

The problem with The Weekly Review is

GTD

The problem I have with Getting Things Done is The Weekly Review. I read in someone’s sig that “if you aren’t doing the weekly review you aren’t doing GTD” which is largely true. But TWR is something that has to be done in a fairly sizable single chunk of time. It isn’t something that you [...]

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17 August 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Michelle loves mikans (oranges)

View All 3 Photos These photos were taken by Michelle’s granddad and they show how much she likes mikans (oranges). Click on the photos to see them in full sized glory. The last one has a lot of detail

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