Horrors!

A tragedy has struck here in the LotRS. Possibly due to the economic downturn, or to general holiday ennui, a terrible event has unfolded at the local (and only) good bar here in Tsu.

A big screen TV has been installed over the bar at Hatchs.

All us foreign types usually congregate at Hatchs on the weekends to mull over local developments and to wallow in good dorky english conversation. As I'm sure you are all aware, a television is the antithesis of good conversation...a konversation killa. For four years we've been going and talking all sorts of inane BS, but now there is some doubt.

My favorite bars in Philadalphia are all TV free, as the point of going out is to talk to people. If one wants to drink beer and watch TV, one stays home...right?

Well, its early going in the TV debacle, we will see how it plays out.

Happy Festivus!

Cruising full speed into the Christmas season, and there is much news to be passed along. I finally got my driver's license here in the LotRS...four years of no wheels and now I can cruise about in the family Benz, Daddy's Porsche, or our own cute little Peugot.
Also, I finally threw around enough high school kids to qualify for my Black belt in Judo. All I have left to do is the formal Nage No Kata test, and then I'm all set.
There's been alot of Japanese study as well...the Japanese Language Proficiency Test was this past weekend, and I think I did ok. Of course, I thought that last year as well, and ended up failing by two points. I have been reading the penultimate Harry Potter in Japanese, and am fairly confident in my Skilz.
We are winding up the term at school as well...I have a week to coast through, and then its Christmas and New Year...Skiing in Nagano! Yea!
K is doing just fine...champing at the bit for her shot at motherhood...not happening yet, but we will be ready when the time comes.
Not much else than that, but I figure even though it doesn't add up to column inches, its enough for right now. Murray Christmans!