I spent most of today inside, studying Japanese grammar, and reading a remarkable children’s book in Japanese about excrement and urine. I’m learning lots of great new words that aren’t in my dictionary. <\/p>\n
For dinner I walked across the street to a new ramen restaurant that opened a couple of months ago. It was actually pretty good – cheap, no nonsense, no frills ramen. There’s another ramen restaurant ten minutes walk north of me, but there was a murder there last year and so I’m not to keen on going in there anymore.<\/p>\n
Kuniko called me from work and asked me a question about an English translation. She was busy working on a Sunday night – no fun. She called me again when she got home and we talked for a long time about the weekend, next week, and our upcoming trip. We’re both really excited about going to the States. It was good to hear her voice.<\/p>\n
Before bed I watched a downloaded copy of “Sideways” – and it was really a great movie. It brought back a lot of memories of working in the wine country. I think it’s up for an Oscar this year. I haven’t seen any others that it is competing against, but I really did enjoy it. Extremely well done.<\/p>\n
Off to bed now. It’ll be a short week this week because we have Friday off. I’m not sure what the holiday is, but hopefully we can squeeze in a poker game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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