1 little, 2 little, 3 little monsters

The nature of the consecutive holidays in Silver Week had me back home from backpacking in the Iide mountain range in Yamagata prefecture late Wednesday night, and while Thursday came early, a two-day work week is much more manageable than a five-day one after some time off.  More on my Silver Week adventures later, I’d [...]

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Hello, my name is…

Monday and Tuesday of this week found me standing in front of groups of young people, essentially trying to make myself seem as slightly strange but enticingly cool as possible.  The jury is still out, but I had a lot of fun planning and executing.  I created a power point of about twenty slides detailing [...]

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