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Atlantic City
I went to AC last night with my brother for his bachelor’s party. Had a pretty good time. It’s amazing how dead the streets are at 10:30pm when we arrived, but the Trump Plaza and the Tropicana were packed. I spent about three hours playing Limit Texas Hold ‘Em at the $2/$4 tables… and walked […]
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Mono?
Right before I left for Australia, I found out that my friend and coworker Bill was really sick down here. He missed work a few days, and when he went to the doctors, they told him that he had all the symptoms of mono. He was out of it for a few days, and we […]
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Nice
The number one search string to find our website this month is “roppongi foreigners death”, due to this post. I’m actually the number #13 link on Google for the terms. Weird. Actually, I was in Roppongi this trip, and I had a good time, and never felt at all unsafe.
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Free Wireless at Narita
Now that’s more like it. Remember when I was saying how the United lounge at Chicago O’Hare disappointed me because I had to pay for my wireless connection in the business lounge, and because I had to pay for the alcohol? Well, they can take a lesson from the Qantas lounge at Narita Airport in […]
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Obligatory Pictures
album09/IMG_0343I guess if one goes to another country, that one must take pictures of things. It’s no lie to say that I haven’t seen the sun in five days. It’s making me irritable. Anyway, check out my obligatory Tokyo pictures.
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Status Report
How sad is it to be in one of the most amazing cities in the world, and not being able to take the time to enjoy it? I’ve been working 12-14 hour days for the last week, and it’s really starting to take a toll. Thankfully, though, we turned the system back over to the […]
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In Japan
I’ve arrived in Japan. Didn’t sleep much on the plane, and I’m exhausted. Got the BBC on the television, and Soba noodles in my belly. Time to get some real sleep tonight. I forgot my sleeping pills.
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On the Road Again
Nice. My new laptop arrived just in time for me to bring it on my trip. When I ordered it, the sales guy told me that it would ship on March 18, and arrive 5-7 business days later, so, I was very surprised when I received the notice that it had shipped last week. I […]
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Like We Didn’t Know
Found an online nerd test. Like we didn’t know what the score was going to be. Take the test and post your scores in the comments… UPDATE: I didn’t know that y’all can’t post images, so just post your scores in the comments. Can anyone honestly beat my score?
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Dig Any Holes Lately?
Every now and then, you see stories that are so deliciously ironic that you have to laugh out loud. Today, I found one… Annette “Flirty” Stevens, president of the Springfield chapter of the Million Mom March, an organization that aims to “prevent gun violence”, was arrested last week when police allegedly found an illegal gun […]
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Intellectual Property
I’ve created a new category to organize my thoughts on intellectual property, copyrights, and their relationship to Biblical ethics. As I said in a previous post, I’ve been working occasionally on a book on what scripture says about the subject. I think Christians have bought the party line, and we need to do some serious […]
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Discernment
Saw this quote originally written in Christianity Today by Lewis Smedes: Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. Reality is always deucedly complicated; any human situation has far more to it than first meets anybody’s eye. No one has twenty-twenty discernment. This is why […]
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Or It Could Be Swollen Tonsils
Young Tilly Merrell, a seven-year-old girl from England, had never eaten solid food, since she was diagnosed as a child baby with Bulbar Palsy, a condition the necessitates being fed via a tube into her stomach. Friends of hers raised a collection to send her to America for treatment of her condition, but upon arrival, […]
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My New Laptop
Sarah and I had been going back and forth on the status of our computers. She’s been spending more time writing in the past few months, and we’ve started to have issues with the kids playing downstairs and the computers in the office upstairs. For a while, Sarah had been wondering about a computer downstairs, […]
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Sin City
From the Consular Information Sheet on Japan: Concerns Regarding Roppongi, Tokyo: We note that an American Citizen was murdered in early December 2004 in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. The murder occurred in an office building within walking distance of the local police station. A second foreigner (not an American) was stabbed to death in […]