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Outdoor furniture
Yesterday’s task: build a container for the grill accessories. There’s nothing worse than a soggy cardboard box full of charcoal and tools scattered all over the veranda. I designed and built a simple table with a shelf and a door panel that’s hinged along the bottom. The charcoal, blowtorch and other things are hidden behind…
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Un-procrastinating
I’ve been on a personal crusade to take care of things that I’ve been putting off. I’ll bet you have some of these pesky tasks on your mental “To Do” list. So far, I’ve managed to accomplish several things: visiting the gynecologist and mailing Seth’s VCR to Vancouver count among the prominent items crossed off…
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Traditional gate
This traditional gate belongs to a private house on my street. It’s usually closed but I caught it open yesterday afternoon. What a lovely landscape inside.
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Someone flipped a switch
Someone flipped a switch and turned summer on. The weather is sunny and hot during the day with just enough humidity to feel sticky. The evenings are wonderfully warm. There’s no excuse not to spend lots of time outdoors. The veranda has become our extra, outdoor room–we eat breakfast and dinner out there, carry our…
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Tree trimming
Tree trimming in our back yard. From forest to manicured garden in a day.
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Hamster’s Lunch
Hamster’s Lunch. “Seed shape rice cracker and hamster figures will provide you a enjoyable tea time.” The box also explains that there are 12 different figures and each comes with a Hamster Facts card. The rice crackers are shaped like sunflower seeds and are made of 100% mochi rice, in case you should mistakenly think…
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Early summer fashion report.
Early summer fashion report. Gleaned from the streets of Omotesando The ethnic look: peasant blouses and long pairie/gypsy skirts. Next year, I expect to see a revival of “bistro print” skirts (the sort with French-looking bottles of wine and luggage labels). Why? Because that’s how it went in the 80s. Stripes: clean, crisp cotton (or…
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DE-J meeting
I’m not sure what we were thinking, but it is not a good plan to have a meeting in a British restaurant on the opening night of the World Cup. The DigitalEve Japan steering commitee got together last night at Pizza Express, a British pizza chain, in Harajuku. We arrived at seven and had the…
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Desk Inventory
I should be polishing an article that’s due, but I’m distracted by the number of things on my desk. Here’s an inventory: laptop scan converter digital camera DV camera remote telephone memo holder file box full of notebooks and maps keyboard wacom tablet flatpanel monitor on top of cardboard box card file four dictionaries wooden…
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2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup starts tomorrow. The papers are full of articles about hooligans and what’s being done to avoid trouble. Extra police are on alert, of course. To support that, pachinko parlor owners have agreed not to install any new machines during the World Cup because the law states that police must be…
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