Archive for October, 2005

Buy Casa Durfee!

Anyone interested in living in the Bay Area? The price is right! Check out this beautiful house. You get great neighbors out of the deal (my parents are moving right next door). Hey, call today.

A visit to the restaurant

megu-pete-ron-minoru.jpg Originally uploaded by Durf. Ron, cousin Kirsten’s husband, made it to Japan as part of a whirlwind tour of East Asia. We went out to dinner for a couple nights in a row and tried to get him over his jet lag so he could fly on to new countries and time zones and [...]

Spongebob on the slopes

spongeskis.jpg Originally uploaded by Durf. Some stickers Jes sent over in a package last year . . . Bob and his cat spend some quality time on the slopes of Japan’s mountains each winter.

How to dry your swine

Seen on a translation message board: 内ブタ is “the inner lid,” not an internal pig.

Good news from Japan

Better than the iPod tax thingy by far! First snow of the winter on Fuji. Must have more . . . more of the white stuff. Other good news includes the fact that the Yankees lost, so I won’t have to deal with all the fawning coverage of Matsui each night on the TV sports [...]