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Another day, another realtor
Another day, another realtor The day before yesterday, I got an unexpected phone call from Yoshii-san at Relocation House who had faxed me a floorplan a couple of weeks ago. I had made an inquiry about a house through one of the realty databases on the Internet and now Yoshii-san was following up to see…
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Six month split
Since I first read about them in classic novels, I’ve envied the jet-setters who split their year between two countries. Whether they were doing New York & Paris in the 1890s, or LA & New York in the 1990s, there’s something about that ability to be settled, yet have change, that is extremely appealing. And…
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Househunting in one syllable
Yesterday I spent 4 monosyllabic hours in a car with my realtor. Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration; I do know a words of more than one syllable which I proved by repeating them. hiroi…akarui…kitanai…semai… We visited five places yesterday. One won’t be vacated until the end of July, so we just peeked at the…
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Trash day
Trash day and I’m up early to walk it down the block to the pickup point. All the neighbors put their trash in the same place (a big pile near a stone wall by the grocery store) and the little garbage truck comes to collect it. The trucks are cute–they are bright blue with the…
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Japan Summers
The weather forecast predicts a 36 degree high today. Certainly the hottest day of summer. A good day to go meet a friend at Imojin and eat red bean ice and sip green tea. The office was 33 when I walked in this morning. Thank goodness for aircon. Tokyo summers are dreadful. June brings rain,…
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The veranda outside my
The veranda outside my office is my only thriving garden. The planters out front have all shrivelled and died in the summer sun. The plants on the deck have died, too. But my peppers and basil and lavender all thrive because I seethem and remember to water them every day. I think I will bring…
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Today’s Weather in Tokyo:
Today’s Weather in Tokyo: hot and humid. (It is summer after all!)
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Bonenkai
A holiday story from the pre-blog days
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