Jan
15
2008
Still no news to report from me. I work, I go home, lather, rinse, repeat. Next month, I turn 40 years old. It's not fair. Not so long ago I was a teenager trying to grow a mustache in an attempt to look older. I can't figure out what I did that was so horrible as to deserve this fate.
I don't feel 40. I don't think I look it either. People my age don't look young anymore. They're covered with wrinkles and cellulite and have specks of gray in their thinning hair. But at least they tend to have their stuff together. My stuff is lying in piles around the house. Am I allowed to have a middle aged crisis now? Because I think I've already starting having one. A very quiet one. Mostly. Until right now.
Changing the subject to the subject of this post, a bunch of bloggers who live in and around Tokyo meet at The Dubliners' Irish Pub in Shibuya on the third Wednesday of every month at 7 pm. That's tomorrow. I will be there, and I will drink (but not smoke) and probably moan a little about turning 40 because it stinks, although it's not as bad as the alternative, which is dying.
And if anyone makes fun of me for getting old, I will beat them senseless with my stainless steel walker.
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Dec
27
2007
I'm turning into a workaholic hermit, it's been 47 days since I last did anything social, and I finally got paid today. Anyone in Tokyo up for drinks tomorrow night (Friday)?
I wish I had something interesting or witty to say, but all I do these days is work, go home, tag base, then go to work again.
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emo
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Sep
06
2007
The other night, David Letterman had Jackie Chan on and asked him if he enjoyed making the Rush Hour movies. His reply:
"Not really…On the set I just follow whatever they tell me to do. They tell me fight, I fight. They tell me speak dialog, I speak dialog. When I speak dialog everybody laughing, I don't understand what's going on. Then I don't know why audience like it."
I can sympathize. Every morning, I think about what I'd say if I were to do a podcast and I think, "Nobody would want to hear about that." But when I force myself to do one, the reaction is positive and for the life of me I can't understand why. It's like I'm the only one not tuned into the appeal.
I know, I know, I've said the same thing 100 times. But I'm still trying to figure it out. The problem is, I really like all the people who come to this site, so I have to keep putting stuff out so you keep coming back.
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Aug
21
2007
Lately I've been having a thought nagging at me, waking me up in the middle of the night.
"I'm not smart enough. I don't have enough skills."
There are lots of ways I could be…more. Maybe it's because I'm pushin' 40 and I'm not where I expected to be by now.
To make a long story short, I decided to write a little program that lets me use my GPS enabled mobile phone to update my whereabouts on that little map in the right hand sidebar of my blog. It took a bit of studying PHP and WordPress source code over the past week or so, but I feel better now. Proud of myself. I like making things that I can share with others.
[tags]emo, geek stuff, programming[/tags]
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Jun
29
2007
- I bought a 30GB iPod yesterday to replace the one I lost. I also bought a new pair of Sennheiser CX 300 earbuds ($40 and they're the best I've ever owned). With the store points I collected from that purchase, I picked up an expensive and beautifully crafted and designed leather case for a mere 45 yen.
- For the first time in ages, tonight I'm having dinner with my best friend and her cousin. That might not make you happy, but it sure makes me happy.
- The book publisher for whom we're going to produce a podcast is mere centimeters away from approving the budget. Boy, will you be surprised when I can finally announce the company's name.
- As previously mentioned, my home computer is fixed, and I didn't lose any data.
- I'm going to take the kids to the International Tokyo Toy Show over the weekend, and the above-mentioned best friend and her daughter might come along. I think I'll be able to bribe the kids into helping with a videocast, on the condition that I let them do it in Japanese.
- Life is boring, repetitive, lonely, soul-draining and tedious for me lately, but it won't be that way forever, and things could be a whole lot worse. I just need to make an effort to crawl out from under this rock.
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