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  04.03.2001
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Today I went down to our local Ward office
and signed my wife up for National Health
Insurance -- it was remarkably easy. Kudos
to the Japanese bureaucracy. Thank God that
Japan, like my home Canada, is civilized
enough to recognize the intrinsic social
value of universal health care.
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Yesterday I gave an informal English
lesson to a bunch of the programmers upstairs.
This was a great leap forward in my attempt
to worm myself into the Web design department
here -- things like this go slowly in Japan.
I've been thinking a lot about my future
lately. I wonder how I could discover what
fate has in store for me....?
I know!! I'll ask Sylvester Stallone's mother to read my ass!
 04.02.2001
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Man, I'm tell'n ya, the cherry blossom viewing
crowds at Ueno park yesterday were unbelievable
-- H-U-G-E would be an understatement. On
Saturday it actually snowed, the first time
in ages, and Sunday was hot and sunny, so
everyone and his uncle came out in full force.
You couldn't even move, let alone enjoy the
blossoms.
The cherry blossom season (Hanami) is a very
popular time in Japan, almost akin to our
NewYears, and really, it's an excuse to sit
outside, eat lots and food, and get absolutely
shit-faced. Drinking in public is totally
acceptable in Japan. (That's what you get
for being socially responsible I guess.)
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Elsewhere, I'd like to quote from my morning
paper, The Japan Times, about the latest news from Moldova:
Moldovans sell human flesh in bags
CHISINAU, Moldova(AP) Two women
have been arrested in impoverished Moldova
for selling meat, which tests revealed to
be human remains, police and Interior Ministry
officials reported Saturday.
A customer reported the women
to police Friday after buying the meat, which
they were selling in plastic bags outside
a butcher shop in downtown Chisinau, said
the officials.
The women told police they acquired
the meat from a state cancer clinic in Chisinau.
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I mean, man!, not only is it bad enough when
you discover that you've just eaten human
remains for dinner, but then to find out
on top of that they were CANCEROUS human
remains -- excuse me while I hurl.
 04.01.2001
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So far I've just been cruise'n on through
the weekend. The weather's great today and
I'm going to try to drag Karen down to Ueno
park so that we can take some cherry blossom
pictures.
 03.30.2001
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Today's posting is for all of my fellow photologgers
from New York who have been bemoaning the
weather as of late.
Spring is definitely in the air in Tokyo.
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Gratuitous link...
For all of you young ladies out there who
have been wondering how to relate to your
husbands or partners, this women offers up some advice.
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