the best iPhone app for studying/using Japanese

if you have an iPhone and you are at all interested in Japanese, buy
this app. it's simply called "Japanese." best features are its ease of
looking up Kanji and it can help you study for the JLPT. it's a little
expensive, 2300 yen, but well worth it. I used to use a different
dictionary but I will never again. Japanese has tons more words and
tons more functions an is tons easier to use, get it!

is pepsi out of their ever loving minds?!

yes. the latest in the pepsi flavor series, which has included; ice
cucumber, blue hawaiian, and shiso flavors, comes Azuki Pepsi. this is terrible. by far the worst tasting of the bunch. if you've never had
Azuki (or anko) just imagine dumping a bunch of sugar in a batch of
homemade refried beans, that'll give you an idea of the taste and
texture. it's bad.

So much stuff to catch up on...

that I think I'm gonna skip most of it for now. This is like my "6 months lost" phase. I'm not gonna promise to get to any of it for now, i might, but most likely I won't. Think I'll post some of the better pictures on my phone from so of the stuff I haven't posted about sometime. But I think if I wait to post about what I've missed, I'll never get around to writing anything and this page will be stuck in stasis for a long time. Think I'll just go from here.

I'm pissed that today I don't start work until 6pm. Finish at 9:20. Means that I'm gonna travel 2 hours round trip for about 3 hours of work. Stupid. One good thing i guess is that I have to head into Ikebukuro to pick up a present that I had made for mornin's b-day. Took 2 weeks! Ahhhhhhh!!! Her birthday was actually last Tuesday and I ended up giving her 8 consecutive days of presents. The sad thing is that the best present will only be finished today, nearly a week late, but it will be worth it!In other news, hooked up the old laptop to the TV and now I can watch streaming video stuff on the big screen and it is awesome! Lately I've been listening to more music that I had been. I'd gotten into a podcast only rut for awhile but music is great. I forgot how much good stuff I had. I've also gotten some pretty good new stuff recently. Picked up the new Pearl Jam and Weezer (haven't listened to that yet) and also got a special edition of Pablo Honey that has about 20 extra tracks. It's much like High School again.

I finished playing Uncharted 2 and I must say that that is a really really good game. It's everything that Assassin's Creed could have, and should have been. Highly recommended. I ordered 4 games on Play Asia that I'm waiting for because I was tired of going all the way to Akihabara and being disappointed. Also, the most reliable store for import games has closed. A sad day.
The four games I'm waiting for are:
FIFA 10
Forza 3
Modern Warefare 2
Borderlands

Now some of them aren't out, but I can wait. Don't think I need all of them now anyway, don't have that much free time. I think FIFA 10 should be here tomorrow. Also should be getting Windows 7, hopefully tomorrow and I'm pretty excited to never use Vista again! Don't care if Windows 7 isn't the greatest thing in the world, I just know that it can't be worse than Vista.

Yesterday my sister-in-law (SIL) and her husband (HIL) came over and mornin and I made fajitas for them. Good times! They liked the food a lot and we had some wine and beer (got some Red Hook for my b-day) and played a little Wii.

Kawasaki Frontale sit in first place by 1 point and we are coming down to the end of the season! Next weekend might be my last chance to see them play this year so I think we might be heading over to Todoroki to see them take on JEF united Chiba. SOBs.
Guess that's enough for this post.
later

catchin up!

so I know that there is a ton of catchin up I need to do, namely the
great Silver Week trip, and I'll get to it soon, don't you worry! just
haven't been in a sit down at the computer mode recently, pretty much
only been using it to get new TV episodes, movies, podcasts and to
watch sportscenter lately. probably find time this weekend, maybe not,
but for sue by Thursday next week. another thing on the list is
mornin's graduate school graduation! that was hot! stay tuned!

couple updates

USC won! wahoo!
also, the controversial "finish" to Frontale game was voted on by the
J-league and the game will be played from the point at which it was
stopped! that means with Kawasaki up 3-1! beauty!
last thing is that mornin and I are heading out to meet dude? and his
lady out in Osaka, kick around there for a couple days and thenall
head off to Hiroshima for a couple days. pray for good
weather!

9 hours!

man I'm stoked! 9 hours until the kickoff of the USC x Ohio State game. I hate Ohio St. I LOVE USC!
Many people know that I am from Washington, and I love my M's and my Hawks, my Dawgs, my Sonics and hey, even my Sounders. But the first team I liked in my life was the Trojans. As a kid, I moved around a lot. At the time I was coming into an age where I was starting to play and watch any sports, I lived in California. Actually, a few places in California. This is why I love me some USC, and some Dodgers. Of course a lot of my deeper connections with sports teams were formed later in life during the later 80s and 90s and the struggles of most of my local Seattle teams (except for the dominance of UW!). My first hat was a Dodgers cap. My first football had a SC logo on it. I'm stoked for this game! In the Horseshoe. True freshman at the helm. GO TROJANS!

OHHHHH MAN I'M PISSED!

I was just watching the Frontale game against #1 Kashima Antlers at Kashima's home stadium. Frontale was just over 2 games back in 2nd and they will still be that way tomorrow. Why? Well, let me tell you. With less than 20 mins left in the game, and Kawasaki up 3-1 the ref decided that the pitch conditions were not playable. True, the ball didn't move much across the ground when kicked, but... So they sit around for 30 mins, he comes out, checks the field a couple of times and declares a "no game." I had no idea that this was even possible. Unreal. Poof, 70+ minutes of the game never existed. Tese's 2 goals, gone. No, "let's pick up and play later," just done. Unreal. Are you serious? I'm pissed. What a joke! The season is winding down, we could have been 4 points out of first, instead, we're still 7 back and now we've got a three way tie for second. Man they better give us another chance to take out those posing suckers! I F'n hate Kashima, and this just makes me hate them even more. That's right, mother nature made me hate a soccer team more. Live with it.

please don't make me do it!

I swear to god that If another 'person' answers the question "what's new?" with "nothing" and then stops talking, i'm gonna scream and then rip their head off. and then eat it.

another one

go hawks!

iPhone app

an interesting little miniaturization effect done by an app I got for
the iPhone