| Welcome to My Personal Site |
 Hey
Everyone,
Hi and welcome to my personal site. Many of you
probably came to this site from my
Facebook
page. For those of you coming from my
FunEasyEnglish.com site, hopefully you can learn
more English on these pages. I am constantly posting
a variety of information which you may find
interesting.
I want to take this opportunity to wish you all the
best in 2012. For those of you studying English and
visiting from my English sites, hang in there, you
can do it. I am back to working full time on my
Internet projects and plan to upload many new
lessons, videos, and activities in the coming year.
See the
Archive -
Previous Posts
section below
for a review of my activities from May 2009 thru
December 2011.
If you want to connect with me simply click one of
the links in the "Connect"
section above. Thank you for visiting. Enjoy.
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| Nara, Japan |
Sun and Moon |
San Diego, CA,
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Yup another fun and exciting
week....yeah right. Hopefully all this
site updating will be finished before
March 1 which is our scheduled date to
begin setting up our businesses in the
adjacent house. The plan at this time is
to use the kitchen for producing our
BeeMee TV cooking videos for our
BeeMee.net site. The other two rooms on
the first floor will be for our coffee
shop and English conversation school.
All upstairs rooms will be used for our
bed and breakfast business with those
rooms using the separate entrance.
Hopefully on April 1 everything is up
and running. |
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I needed to purchase a new suit for the
upcoming wedding in Tokyo in a couple
weeks. Really a jeans and T shirts kinda
guy. Whoever invented suits musta been
crazy....expensive, uncomfortable, and
unnecessary. (picture coming soon) |
 Spent
this week literally working from early
morning until evening adding tons of
content, videos and activities, to my
English Global Group site. Now over 2000
total pages for international students
and teachers to use. This job is even
more difficult considering I am watching
Shai Monday thru Friday from about 8am
until 6pm. Really looking forward to
Spring, warmer temperatures, and
spending time outside again. |
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We are heading up to Tokyo for a family
wedding in a few weeks. This is a
picture of Shai taking his tuxedo for a
test drive. Pretty cute huh? (picture
coming soon) |
 More
of the same....read the January 9-10 post. This time I
spent a very boring couple of days changing each
page of the over 2200 pages of my Home Education
site.
HomeEducationAcademicProgramSchool.com |
 More
of the same....read the previous post. This time I
spent a very boring couple of days changing each
page of the over 1600 pages of my Japanese Language
Culture Food site. Thanks again for not sending
notification about the changes Facebook.
JapaneseLanguageCultureFood.com
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 Really
need to hand it to F****book for
acting like a big company. Basically they changed
their comments plugin application without any
notification to the millions of site owners and
bloggers using this incredible tool. They now
require a specific HREF parameter on each page in
order for the application to work. Sure you had
choices.
FunEasyEnglish.com
1. If you decided to stay with the old script then
you get this ugly message on each page of your site.
Anyone not in the know would be reluctant to post
greatly reducing the effectiveness of this
incredible marketing tool.
2. If you install the new script then it completely
wipes out the hundreds of previous posts which kind
site visitors took the time to make. The upside is
you get an incredible comment application with great
moderation tools.
3. Totally ditch Facebook and use another third
party commenting application giving up the potential
to market your stuff to over 800 million members.
I chose the 2nd course and spent a couple days
changing the over 1700 pages of my Fun Easy English
site. Certainly hope it was worth it. |
| We went out and bought iPhones today. Was not
much of a decision since I am spending a lot of time
online and working on Internet projects these days.
If all the sites continue to de well then a move
back to San Diego would be very likely in about two
years. |
| Yup after spending years working on a Vista
computer it was finally time to get a windows 7
computer. My old computer was getting way slow and
inadequate for working on my Internet projects.
Computer arrived on the 6th, took a quick look,
turned it on and went back to drinking wine and
watching TV. Spent the 7th installing security and
my programs. Took much of the day to work it out but
now everything is up and running smoothly. |
| Went to visit a relative on the 3rd. Nothing
exciting there. Pretty much a family obligation
thingy. On the 4th it was back to work for Akiko and
for me today meant back to 10 hour days with Shai
and uploading a bazillion new pages to my sites. The
5th was SOS. |
| Spent the afternoon and evening with the family
drinking....way too much....and eating special food
for the new year. Pretty much a traditional annual
event. Was too drunk to walk to the train station
and we spent the night at the relatives house. |
 Happy
New Year. あけましておめでとうございます。We ended 2011 and began
2012 doing basically the same thing. Playing
football in the rice fields. New Years Eve we ate a
bit of traditional Japanese food but Akiko basically
wanted to eat pasta to go along with the nice wine
we bought. We plan on staying in for the remainder
of today. January 2 we are going to spend with
family and eat New Years food and no doubt drink too
much. January 3 we are traveling to Kobe to visit
with relatives. This year looks to be pretty busy
overall with all the new Internet projects, plans
for the adjacent house, and keeping my extensive
list of New Years resolutions. がんばるは。More
Pictures |
 July
- December 2011
We began the Summer with a couple parties. Then we
went to the Gion Matsuri which is one of the most
famous festivals in Japan. A week later we spent an
incredible day at the beach. A couple more parties.
We went to see fireworks. A typhoon hit in August.
We purchased the adjacent property.
July - December 2011 |
 April
- June 2011
We went to Yoshino Mountain in April to see the cherry
blossoms in bloom, known in Japanese as hanami. The trees
traverse the entire mountain and due to the differences in
elevation, you can see the cherry blossoms in various stages
of bloom. Quite a few parties during these few months.
April - June 2011 |
 January
- March 2011
We began the year with a trip to Nara Park. There was 3
parties during the first week and a half of January. End of
the month saw some awesome sunsets. In February watched the
Super Bowl. We then got hit with a pretty good amount of
snow. A few more parties. The incredible news was the
earthquake which hit Japan.
January-March 2011 |
 October
- December 2010
The end of the year was a time for parties including
Halloween, Thanksgiving, and a Holiday party. December 1 was our one
year anniversary in Japan with mixed feelings since the house turned
out to be a lot more work over the previous year than anticipated.
October-December 2010 |
 July
- September 2010
Shai celebrating his first birthday. This included a
quiet day at home and a party the next day. We dealt with an
earthquake and a typhoon. We held an independence day party.
We went camping, hiking, and attended several events. In
addition, work on the house continue through the Summer.
July-September 2010 |
 February
- June 2010
We went up in the mountains to a town called Yoshino which
is famous for Cherry Blossoms in the Spring. Thousands of
trees can be viewed at different elevations allowing
visitors to see the flowers at various stages in the
blooming cycle. We got
together with the family of the neighbors for a nabe party.
February-June 2010 |
 January
2010
We purchased our
piece of crap house.
After lots
of controversy and problems surrounding the purchase, we
made it happen and the transaction finally closed on the
12th of this month. We spent new years day again at Nara
park and visited a few of the most historic temples in the
world.
January 2010 Archive |
 December
2009
This month we put in an offer on the house which was
accepted. Thus began something more or less equivalent to
escrow. We hung out with friends and went out for sushi. We
celebrated Hanukah with Shai. We went to Nara Park and
visited some old temples.
December 2009 |
 November
2009 Parties
We spent the month saying goodbye for now to our friends in
San Diego. We made many fun dinner parties since this was our last
month in San Diego before moving to Japan.
November 2009 |
 August
2009
This was a really busy month. It was pretty hot for awhile
and we spent a lot of time on the coast fishing. Jim and Linda
hosted a wonderful baby shower for us. Shai was able to experience a
meteor shower and a Buffalo Bills football game.
August 2009 |
 July
2009
Shai was born on the 23th of this month. Akiko was relieved
to be finished with pregnancy and to begin looking after our
baby. Jim and Linda were incredibly helpful and kind over
the last few months. A name for Shai was
finally decided on. We went fishing and decided to purchase
a house in Grand Island, New York.
July 2009 |
 June
2009
This was a crazy month. We tried to purchase a house in
Japan and ended up fighting with relatives because of
discrimination, specifically buraku issues.We went fishing a
lot. We celebrated our wedding anniversary. Another couple
months before the baby is born.
June 2009 |
 May
2009
This was a pretty quiet and nice month. We went to the
annual Food Fair in Balboa park. We went fishing a bunch of
times. Basically we were hanging out and relaxing.
May 2009 |
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