GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE

In Japan after your drivers license expires, you gotta renew it right away or even before the day of otherwise its a real bitch. Of course no one told me that, nor could I have read it, hahaha. But after it expired in lovely September I finally got it in May. Just a couple months later, and a lot of hassling around. Seems like after it expires, for a foreigner you can reapply if you have been out of the country for a total of 3 months since the start of your license. Luckily I qualified for that, was sweating balls at the office when the license guy was flipping through my passport and writing down all the places I went to and the dates, it was like I did something wrong. Luckily I had my Japanese model sticker from a lighter I got in Vietnam, the photo brought up a good laugh from the guy as he asked me if I liked her. In the end the guy was pretty nice and he finished up the paperwork, then a quick eye test, and a photo shoot, and the reminder to put my yellow and green rookie sticker on the back of my car at all times for a year, I finally got my license. I am good to go again!

RAIN RAIN RAIN

Its raining again today, its near the start of June and its Japan's rainy season. Or what you see in Seattle everyday in the winter. The other day I swore it rained non-stop for 24hours and then some. Maybe I am not used to all that rain anymore. Well the rice paddies are filling up with water, and the frogs are out in force croaking and croaking and croaking all night long.

ON A SUNDAY MORNING

this morning i played a game with my homie. thats was so much fun!
Awsome! maybe i think i will quit playing WOW, coz i dont think i have
much time to play it, i will be busy from playing that game every
day. he he



i have to go to school to get to work today, even its sunday today. What the hell! fucking suck!

ANIMALS WARN OF NATURAL DISASTERS

The huge earthquake in China could have been detected before it happened. As many the cases humans and their technology are not the best predictor of earthquakes, you can spend millions of dollars in research and still not predict anything. Technology didn't tell us about the earthquake in China, but the animals did. Few days before the earthquake frogs were acting erratic flooding onto the streets, hours before animals at the zoo were acting abnormal. Animals have an extra sense that us humans do not have, a sense that can used to predict natural disasters. Why not have the zoo call the national disaster office?



Animal's behavior foretold disaster? by Seattle Times

RANDOM NEWS

If there was no internet I would have no news ... but since there is ESPN, Seattletimes, Yahoo, etc. all online its great!

Lets see the latest random news ...

Sonics going or leaving? Schultz is suing to get them back, I hope the Sonics stay
7.9 earthquake in China yesterday
Cyclone in Burma, but government too dumb to let in aid work
gas prices are crazy! Japan reinstated their .25 cent tax, so its like 157yen for one liter!
NBA playoffs, Boston and Cleveland tied at 2-2
Microsoft ditched out on the purchase of Yahoo, good idea i thought
Mariners suck this year, projected first, but really last
Hanshin Tigers baseball team is in 1st and killing everyone with a .710 winning record!
Mmmm... just started watching "Heros" season 1, I think I am a bit behind a couple of years, but hey its really good!!
Conan O Brien taking over for Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon taking over Conan's spot ... wow saw Jimmy at the UW

RAIN RAIN GO AWAY ...

Today woke up and it was a nice sunny morning, hopped on my bike with my t-shirt and all. Then came the clouds, and more clouds, then came the rain, and it got cold. My t-shirt fashion didn't look so good anymore. It was pouring cats and dogs, next time I will have to remember to bring a raincoat or something. Just chilled around school a bit, saw the baseball kids studying hard for the upcoming mid-term tests. Thought I would poke my head in and bother them a bit, quizzed Mr. Ota and Mr. Shiroi, they got most of the words right, pretty good. Made my rounds and went over to the 3rd grade kids, I don't teach em but they know me and I know them a little. Funny bunch, always talking about muscles, wanna see the muscles. Talked to Mr. All-Star pitcher Sato a bit, nice kid. He is gonna be a future pro pitcher for sure. Coach Hirano was funny as he came around and told me, "He is baka" which translates to "He is stupid", haha. But I know the kids all try their best. After that I just jacked a umbrella from the custodian room, gotta get a good one of course for the ride back home in the rain.

EXPIRED LICENSE

Yesterday took the day off to go to Akashi to renew my license. Seems like the rules in Japan are much different than America. I was under the impression that you could renew your license anytime after it expired. In Japan there are different things you have to do depending on how long your license has been expired. If a person renewed the license before the ending date then it would be as easy as going to the local police station. But if it was after 6 months you would have to take the ridiculous paper test of 100 questions again. Being a foreigner I tried to weasel out of that, luckily the guy at the license office helped me out by telling me to go through the foreigner office, there I could simply resubmit my license. Lucky that, will have to head back next week, let you know how things go.

ITS GOLDEN WEEK

Its Friday! And its the start of the 4 day weekend. Its called Golden Week, but its random days off, but heck I will take any day off. Most of Japan is out and about as its a holiday for everyone, except for the poor kids at school which have tournaments and sports games during the so called holidays. Its the Japanese way, kids don't need holidays. The Tokyo peeps are coming for a visit, Taro, and the newlyweds Masa and Tomo. Then also with a special guest appearance of Hawaii Daniel, WOW! He is back in Japan! Cool, it be cool to see Daniel again. School is going good, no big issues yet, just busy as a bee, one again, a daily daily blog is in the works. Sorry for the super late update.