Internet?!

So I will fiddling around with settings on my computer, and managed to find away to push extra power into the wireless adapter (I hope it’s ok…) to increase the range a tiny tiny bit. And… it seems to have worked! A tiny phantom of a signal that I was receiving in my room before [...]



Pi-chan

I mentioned in my last post that I was thinking about buying a parakeet to keep me company… well here he is!



An Overdue Update

Well I’ve been here for a little over a month now, and I’ve been in Takefu for almost a month. I’m still waiting for my internet connect, but I think if I don’t write this now there won’t be much point to writing it, so I’m writing it here in my room and I will [...]



Testing…

I’m posting this from my cellphone… I just set it up today so I don’t know how well it will work… Anyway it’s raining so I can’t go outside and find a wireless spot. Besides, posting from a tablet PC is about as fast and fun as — well — posting from a Japanese cellphone. [...]



What I Did On My Summer Vacation

I’m still waiting for internet in my room! It should be coming very soon though… The bad news is that the wireless spot outside my room vanished, so now I need to start taking longer walks in the hot sun to find internet… oy!



Takefu (Continued)

It’s the weekend, so I finally have some time to write a blog entry about my first week here!
So, after my train ride up from Nagoya, the first thing I saw in Takefu was the big dragon at the station:



Still Alive

I just wanted to write a quick post to say that I’m still here, and still plan on writing more. I’ve been super busy this week acclimating to my new job, and I’ve been making a few mistakes so I’m trying to spend more time preparing rather than writing. In any case, I don’t have [...]