http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs Courtesy of Japan Canvas Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:36:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s been a long time since I posted anything.  My computer died + took all its secrets with it before I could. There was no real warning, …just a faint buzzing sound before it locked up and went black I borrowed my girlfriend’s computer semi-frequently until I could get myself a replacement ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2009/08/29/oh-rats/ I started typing about something else at first, but my girlfriend said she could only beat the dough for the pitas on this table between our computers. I gave up on typing pretty quickly. She beats it with such gusto I couldn’t help but think she’s angry about something. I’m ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2009/04/06/anger-managing/ December 16, 2008 at 6:14 pm Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.–HEBREWS 12:6 That’s why when I was brushing my teeth last night, the sink fell off the wall and dropped on my feet. I’ve cleaned the place up pretty well. There’re still lots of drawers, shelves, and cabinets I haven’t swept ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2009/02/14/toil-toilet/ October 30, 2008 at 12:27 am I keep on counting down the days until I’m done with this terrible job. I was supposed to be finished on the 25th of this month, but then my boss asked me to stay ’til the 31st - just to finish up the month. Then he asked ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2009/02/14/why-i-hate-the-beach-%e2%80%a6and-my-job-and-your-haircut/ A cop pulled me over. He seemed lonely. I wasn’t speeding. I wasn’t swerving. I wasn’t talking on a cell phone. I wasn’t throwing mangled body parts out the windows. I had been looking for a way to get up the mountains along the side of my city again, and ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2008/09/29/rainy-and-calm/ On nice days I go to the beach, and those jelly fish!!!! You never even see them, but they Sting! There have been 3, ...maybe 4 nice days in the last month. The whole rest of the time it rained. We've had lots of promising looking blue patches in ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2008/09/04/swim-with-the-jelly-fish-why-i-like-the-beach/ How is it that an entire city can stink of piggy poo? When it’s hot, as it generally is all through the summer in a semi-tropical area, …a person wants to open a window - Let in a breeze. - Not choke on those awful fumes - Yes? I don’t want my ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2008/07/19/the-driving-force-or-how-i-got-my-car-repaired/ Without knowing much of anything about monkeys, I’d have to say that it’s probably monkeys chattering and squealing outside my window now and then - and every nightfall and dawn. All I can ever see from my window is bamboo, a lot of it. Though I’ve tried to spot them at nightfall, it’s ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2008/07/05/can-go-shima/ By some (seemingly) extraordinary coincidence: I only had 2 slices of bread, just enough peanut butter, and precisely enough jelly to enable me to finish all 3 up - together, with but a single “peanut butter + jelly sandwich”. I decided it would be fun to take this as a divine ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2008/05/21/a-pressing-engagement/ The Bureau of Immigrations is a place for Immigrants …and in between folk like me, to go and sit for hours. There are of course’s lots of other places to go and sit, but only the Bureau of Immigrations has soooo many screaming foreign babies. It’s not ... http://ryan.japancanvas.com/blogs/2008/03/20/lets-immigrate/