When ya'll get the chance, check out Tri's new Project Pink
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Days til Brandon & Thuy are in Japan: 02
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Woke up at: 08:15, up for about an hour and then went back to sleep
Mood: Kinda dizzy from last night
Listening to: The Zephyr Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weather Report: It's been pretty hot and humid for the past 2 days
Japanese Food: masu = trout
Japanese Word/Phrase of the Day: Osusume = recommend; usually seen on restaurant menus for today's specials
Japan News: A flood of bogus 10,000-yen bills has inundated shops in the Kanto area, leading police to suspect a counterfeiting ring with its own production and distribution teams is behind the crime.
About 300 fake bills have turned up in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures since late June. About half of the bills were discovered in convenience stores, supermarkets, grocery stores and other shops in Tokyo. The rest were found in stores and shops in Kanagawa, Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama, Yamanashi, Gunma, Shizuoka and Niigata prefectures.
About 80 fake bills were discovered in Kanagawa Prefecture, followed by 50 in Chiba. Even Tokyo Disneyland could not escape. A total of 29 counterfeit bills were found at the theme park in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.
Police do not believe the counterfeiters are running a Mickey Mouse operation. The forgeries were so good that they went undetected by most of the store clerks, police said. The fakes were exposed when shopkeepers tried to deposit their proceeds through automatic teller machines, which rejected the notes.
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Fantasy Football Update (as of 09.05.03):
The season has finally started...well only one game did.
Week 1 matchup: Spam Jam (Tri)
Fantasy Baseball Update (as of 09.03.03):
WTF!!! After seeing my -11 score...I had to make some changes! Dodger Dogs went from 2nd to 4th. Only 74 pts separate me from 4th place. I dropped Garrett Anderson, Hideo Nomo and Shigetoshi Hasegawa. I picked up Jason Schimdt, Brad Radke and Carlos Beltran.
| Rank | Manager | Season | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanshin Tigers | 3077 | -11 |
| 2 | Jookies | 3055 | 105 |
| 3 | Border Jumpers | 3026 | 47 |
| 4 | Dodger Dogs | 3003 | -1 |
| 5 | Fleas & Ninjas | 2334 | -29 |
Sports Day, Bball and Ikko w/Takahashi Sensei
Another chillin' day at school. Well maybe not chillin', it was pretty hot. Had sports day practice, I'm on team shiro (white). Since there are 15 classes at my school, each grade has 5. So I'm on the team 4. That is...1-4, 2-4, 3-4. The captains all gave they're introductions along with the teachers. Takahashi sensei killed me with his intro. Saying that he doesn't need a white bandana because he has white hair. Anyhow...we practiced the opening ceremony and afterwards we did yardwork on the school grounds.
Finished Ender's Game, yes I finished it in 2 days! It had a nice little twist at the end. All in all, I book I recommend.
After taking a nap, went to bball practice. Got there just in time for scrimmage. Got a great workout in only an hour! After practice, tried to teach Ryo the mechanics of jumping to touch the net. I give him til March to touch it with 2 hands!
Upon coming back into the teacher's room, Takahashi sensei says that we should go to Ikko tonite. I was like, huh!? He already cleared it with his wife and has already arranged a driver afterwards. Unfortunately mama wasn't there last night. Chi mama was. Don't get me wrong, chi mama is koo...but mama is better. Not all of my friends were there last night, but Takahashi got to meet some of them. We had some: Ika yaki, nira tama, oshinko and sanma. Then we sang some karaoke. Walked Takahashi sensei back to his car. Not sure of how I got home but when I did, it was instant lights out.
Woke up @ around 8ish, got online for a bit, then went back to sleep. Been busy with my fantasy baseball team and doing research on Osaka and Kyoto. For lunch, I made some more somen. Perfect on hot days.
Right now, it's like 95 degrees in my apart. This time, I'm just using my fan and it's not that bad. Now that I've gotten used to the heat at school. This is nothing and the weather report claims that the humidity is at 88%.
Oh well...gotta clean up and run some errands.
Kaz out...
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土曜日, 9月 06, 2003.
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