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Electroshock
Yoga may have the appearance of a gentle sport, but don’t be fooled. I managed to massively overstretch my rotator cuff in a vicious Thread the Needle last month and keep reinjuring it doing Chaturanga. So, having bollocksed it up again yesterday morning, I decided to seek medical attention at my favorite sports clinic where…
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Another Rainy Shoot
This time, I had an umbrella. The photoshoot in the middle of yet another Sunday downpour was taken by Chel Beeson and will be used on a website for an onsen resort here in Japan. I love my ad hoc modeling gigs. The photos depict me and my mate Phil as a happy couple enjoying…
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Rainy Robots
Yesterday I had the honor and joy of helping out with the video shoot for Jesse and Will’s song, Hooked on Robots. The day dawned warm and sunny. There was forecast rain in the late afternoon but it didn’t seem likely. I was out and about early in the day and I was already sweating.…
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Merry, merry month of May
There are two months in Tokyo that make me gloriously happy because they have the absolute best weather – May and October. I’ve been enjoying this year’s May very much. It’s combined a lot of outdoor time with hooping and some new skills, too. First, I hosted a Guru-guru Camp during Golden Week. 15 people…
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Everything in between
I keep trying to write about the aftermath of the disasters but I have little new to say. Things in Tokyo are fine; disruptions are either settling into routine or are fading away. At the same time, everything up north is not fine. What is striking all of us now, even in the safety of…
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Level 7
This morning NISA, Japan’s nuclear regulatory agency, held a news conference to provisionally place the Fukushima nuclear incident at INES level 7: Major Accident – Major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures. There’s only been one other level 7 incident and you all know…
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Power saving ideas
Over on Facebook, my previous post generated a lot of ideas and suggestions. Thanks to everyone who chimed in; I was so pleased. I’d like to list them here, along with some expansion and additions I’ve been thinking of, too. One of the awesome posters from the Setsuden Poster collection Replace old HVAC unitsRoman said…
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Power facts
The blackouts have been canceled for the last week thanks to businesses and individuals doing such a stellar job of conserving energy. But even with conservation continuing, extra generators coming online, and small amounts of power shifted from Western Japan to us in the east, TEPCO is expecting an 8.5 gigawatt shortfall this summer. Yesterday…
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Mutant produce
Absolutely enormous asparagus. Not from Fukushima. 398 yen per stalk. Today in the supermarket, I expected to see some empty places in the produce aisle – conspicuously absent spinach and leafy greens with apologetic signs regretting the inconvenience. But I was wrong. There was as much spinach and other greens as usual. All from Chiba…
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Enjoying and suffering
On the weekend we hoopers joined together at Yoyogi Park to hoop and collect donations for the Peace Boat’s earthquake relief efforts. They are cooking 500 hot meals a day up in Ishonomaki and we gathered some cooking supplies and cash for them. I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed and especially to Sareh…
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