All summer I’d been planning to climb Mt. Fuji with my good friend, and NMEC student, Yasuhito. Unfortunately, on the few weekends when we were both free there were either thunderstorms on the mountain or typhoons blasting their way through Shizuoka. By the time some good climbing weather came along on a weekend when I...… [さらに詳しく]
As some of you know, later this month I’m going to climb Mt. Fuji with my friends Yasu and Mika. Last Sunday was our final practice hike before the big one! We chose Mt. Ashitaka, an active volcano South East of Mt. Fuji, largely because much of the trail is quite rocky. We felt this...… [さらに詳しく]
Earlier this week my aging iMac G5 had a meltdown. I spent an afternoon trying to fix the problem, but to no avail. This wasn’t good. I need a computer for work and, as ever, I had a ton of things to do. I couldn’t afford to waste more time trying to get the iMac...… [さらに詳しく]