The R3dragon’s Blog

The most profound statement I’ve ever heard is that “everything you’ve ever learned that was ‘important’ you learned in elementary school.” Sitting here now in the school I’ve realized that my education since elementary school to now wasn’t ‘worthless’ just unnessary. In truth, I believe, the biggest philisophical questions come from 10 year olds who [...]

“Genki” – a word used to describe a state of happiness & cheerfulness. It’s what you express always in the face of boredom, tiredness, loneliness, or whatever real feeling you may have. This experience, thus far, is something I’ve never felt before in my time on Earth. It’s a mixed feeling of fear & opportunity. [...]

I think I’m at the point where the big stuff has been taken care of and now it’s just discovering problems and fixing them on the fly. Let’s call this “Pandora’s Box Settling In”. I don’t think you’ll run into as many odd conundrums as you’ll find here. Take for example the battle between convience, [...]

It’s no big secret that I do have a car and that I have problem driving it. The thing about it is that it’s better suited for farther exploration then for putting around town. This is where I’ve opted recently to take the apartment’s mountain bike around and just ride it till I tire out. [...]

I know I probably should post more.. Especially posts with pictures, however– it comes down to my cat like wonderment that’s eating my time. I remember once when our family got a cat. The first week or so the cat walked around the house and sniffed everything– testing if this surface was solid, or whether [...]

Ok Tokyo will have to come later… because I think showing off Mutsu is more important.. The format for R3d’s Photo-dump will be picture + description– rather then some big ‘ole extrapolation on what’s happening or what I’m thinking. Ok here we go (all via my Flickr acct.) Taking off from Haneda Airport in Tokyo [...]

In hopefully many posts i`ll describe what seems to be a mutual double helix of euphoria and frustration. However, for the most part I`m doing g.r.e.a.t! This ゛getting the net゛ thing has been a pretty good insight into what I probably will be facing all year. Thus please indulge me for a sec. I think it started when my new boss [...]

Last night I arrived in a haze of “welcome to Japan” signs. I was tired and hungry, but all of us was cattle herded right to the hotel with no problems. Today I’ll be headed to many opening “welcome” speeches and small classes.. Should be exciting or at least awesome. I love it here.. I’ve [...]

Today I’m leaving for Japan… I tried setting up the posting thing for England posts but I got side tracked so I guess I write that on the plane and post it later. To my current readers I want to thank you so much for reading my posts about this and that. You’ve survived posts [...]