She never said "You think too much"

I'd say..."How many can you make?"

She'd say..."How many do you need?"

I say: 300...O.K.?

She says: iiii yo!!

I got a lot of the credit but the truth is I could not have done any of it without her.

This pic was taken as we were taking off as a supreme team (her husband...the man she is hanging on is in the hospital because a Cancer operation didn't work out...they have not yet told him for fear of the news killing him..NOBODY thought she would go before him....including him....say a prayer for him....misery comes in bunches)

I have met few folks in my entire life with her combo of calm demeanor and superior work ethic.

I'm not gonna say she's the best person I have met in Japan...that's a given. She might just be one of the greatest humans I have ever met period.
We kicked fucking ass !!!
Actually it was just my boot...she did the kicking.

Rest in Peace awesome lady. I am better for having known you and the world is less for having lost you. Those two things I'm sure of.

Cultural exchange (THIS is how you do it)

 Intro:

Culture (the Xchange)

At the very beginning of the video  I'm about 70+yards away and your listening to ll Cool J thumping...I used the older ipod player and that's playing Hawaiian music in the kids tent while LL thumps all around on the new J.V.C. 

I told em' it would be like joining a beach party back in Hawaii with me and my friends and I wasn't lyin'

Burgers sizzling..bass thumpin', shit this coulda been home in Hawaii.....if you add the 261 Japanese folks and  8 sports festival tents. Of that 261 ...216 ate mini and full size plates.

261 people is a lot.

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Feels like 38? 

They obviously weren't standing in front of a grease fueled grill cooking 200+ burgers.

It felt like New Delhi surrounded by blast furnaces on the hottest day of the year.

I drank TONS of fluids and was still getting massive crippling leg cramps from dehydration. That grill was trying to kill me ;)

The 2 songs in the opening video:
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Margarita
LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali










Pic with the May*r ? (check!!)

This is an image that can only be appreciated by those who wished me well...but in my heart I always knew they wished me Hell.

Japan is dying..."Shoganai"

Shō ga nai (しょうがない)


Shoganai is something like c'est la vie. However, shoganai demonstrates the inability of the person to change the outside circumstances.

 Summer is hot and humid. Shoganai. 

Government workers are not friendly. Shoganai. 

A Storm is brewing...it's been rumbling for years..

Japan is doomed.

Japan is not China, Japan is not China...

Japan is not China...Japan is NOT China...


 I gotta keep telling myself that when I see the most bizzare social behavior coming outta that place. The first time my anger was squarley aimed at the man assaulting the woman. Upon further review the folks at the table behind this event who only moved when they (they being the guy pushing and beating the girl) got too close ...
That made me more fucking ill.