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Dear Diary – April 30, 1999
All we are, is passages, avenues through which other people travel. We are each others’ byways, highways, continuously passing through each others’ lives. Passengers, drivers, hitchhikers all.
Billions and billions of wasted dollars’ worth of samples…
NASA’s plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien life. https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/nasas-mars-sample-return-is-dead-leaving-china-to-retrieve-signs-of-life-from-the-red-planet Congratulations, America. You’ve managed to give Mars to China. But do tell me how this makes America great again… …and just […]
Holy smokes, how many months??
Um. Yeah. Like, I’ve, uh, never done this before… Back with more science, space, and etc. posts soon!
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Don’t panic: Japan is not sinking
My last post, about something now that seems totally innocuous, was on Friday, March 11th, at 10 or 11 in the morning. Japan time. We all know what happened just a few hours later.
Posted in Japan, media, natural disasters, parenting, Paternity leave, Uncategorized
Tagged child-raising, earthquake, family leave, Fukushima, half-Japanese, hysteria, Japan, Japanese, media coverage, Miyagi, Paternity leave, radiation, Sendai
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Hitting the Day Care Lottery Jackpot
My wife and I found out, by regular postal mail on January 17th, that our daughter was accepted into a local city-approved nursery school. She’ll start attending with a group of other 2-year-olds in April (the school year always begins … Continue reading
Posted in day care, parenting, Paternity leave, Uncategorized
Tagged child care, child-raising, day care, fatherhood, Japan, Japanese, Paternity leave
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Nenmatsu-nenshi
I’ve spent the past five New Year’s at my in-laws’ house in Kagoshima, in the southern island of Kyushu. “Family” consists of my wife’s parents, my brother-in-law (who works at a hospital and is usually on call and/or working throughout … Continue reading
Posted in family outings, festivals, holidays, inlaws, parenting, Paternity leave, Uncategorized
Tagged child-raising, fatherhood, Japan, Japanese, Japanese holidays, New Year, Sakurajima, shogatsu
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