Tag: life
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Osaka Day Three – Nara
I headed out to Nara today and I was horribly late. I originally planned to go to the Osamu Tezuka Museum, but it’s closed on Wednesdays and sadly I mistook that for Tuesday. So today was about hitting Nara and I wished that I got up earlier. I unlocked the power of my JRail pass…
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Osaka Day Two
Today I did something a little more worthwhile, by going to Osaka Castle. It’s an ancient structure that sits in the heart of this modern city. The thing was used as a base of operations for Totoyomi Hideyoshi and his clan’s opponent Tokugawa Ieyasu and the whole thing has been rebuilt three times. The castle…
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Osaka Day One
With no one to meet and zero plans, and still kind of jet lagged, I decided to get my bearings in Osaka and see how things played out. So I bought myself a day pass for the train and headed into the city, specifically Umeda and Osaka proper. Leaving the station, I walked into a…
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In Transit
Okay so my flight has been delayed, which means I’ve thought on my feet, cancelled one hotel and booked another. So hopefully things should work out. The reason for the flight being delayed is unknown at this point, but instead of jetting off at around 1pm its now 3. I hope that John McClane was…
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This Week
An update is long overdue. But this week has been busy. I learned late last week that one of our experts at work is headed for greener pastures, meaning that his work will now spill over onto the rest of us. Not that this is good or bad but really marks the end of era.…
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Birthday Graf
Last week was my birthday, sadly the computer I was processing them on died a little before I was going to make this post. So here are the photos now. Overall it was a great day, just basically hanging out with a friend, Em, while we traipsed through the town taking photos of graffiti as…
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Friday Night Magic
Went out Friday night, and I’m late as usual. Drove across the town to the scratched-throat vocals of Tom Waits playing through dying speakers. I promised to pick up Em to deliver her to La Chat Noir, an irregular nightclub event that’s run out of the Kremlin Bar. Its a place that capitalises soviet chic,…
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In The Post
Two things arrived for me in the post today. Firstly my copy of Weathercraft by Jim Woodring. This is simply a marvelous looking book and inside, continues the adventures of the various characters of the Woodring World, and in particular ManHog. For the most part, these comics are silent. They tell their tales solely through…
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Crash
*Sigh* Some things are not meant to be. Yet. My birthday was on Friday. All went fairly well. Spent a day with a friend, Em, taking photos of graffiti as per the weird tradition I do every birthday now. I did take a lot of photos, but a great chunk of them were long murals.…
