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Entries from June 2008

Walking Distance

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Engrish

This T-shirt says, “Everything is within walking distance listen you’ll hear the beating of solar traps.” Scary!  I don’t want to walk if I’ll have to listen to the beating of solar traps.  Yikes.  Wonder what that is, exactly?

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Food is expensive

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Sometimes you can get a better deal on base when it comes to food.  And they really try to stress that the commissary is MUCH cheaper than out in town, but it’s not always.  Last month button mushrooms were almost $8 a pint and were something like $2 off base.  I don’t know what the [...]

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Jogoshima

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Travel

Barbara and I went out to Jogoshima on Friday morning.  It took about an hour to drive out there and we only had a couple of hours to spend there before we both had to be back, but we wanted to get out and see something new!  It’s on the southern most tip of the [...]

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Shock Me!

June 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Engrish

The shirt says, “Shock me shyly. Give a tight strong get away!! Consciousness.” Oh.my.

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Hiroshima

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Travel

DJ got home late Friday night and we spent Saturday relaxing and playing with the kitties. Then very early Sunday we got ready and ran to the train station (well…we walked VERY quickly so as not to be late). We had to catch the Shinkansen (bullet train) out of Shinagawa at 7:06am, which meant we [...]

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