Author: davidandkiyomi
That hit the spot.
Umm hmm… made myself a bacon butty for lunch today! Two strips of bacon, placed them in a red hot pan and fried/cooked the living daylights out of them. Then when still hot took them out, placed... Read More
Ahead of the pack.
Last month Kiyomi took the Test of English for International Communication or TOEIC. She got the results back today. Scored over 900 (out of a possible 985). Which is in the top 1.6% of test takers. I... Read More
Through our eyes.
We have changed the layout of Blood and Soil a little. It now displays a random selection of some of the photographs we’ve taken over the years. Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to the ph... Read More
Seven deadly sins.
So Micro$oft is going to release Internet Exploder (IE) 7 ahead of the next version of windows despite telling consumers that there would be no new version of IE before then. Reasons for doing so are ... Read More
Is there an Expo happening?
2005 is the year of the Aichi Expo (Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan) which has been in the pipeline for a while. Work, plans, other countries announcing they’re participating have been going on for over ... Read More
If only it were true.
Found this on a discussion group, if only it were true.... Read More
A snail’s pace.
We have been working for ourselves now for just under a month, and have been building our student base in drips and drapes. A call this day, another call three days later. A day after that two calls i... Read More
Impossible to ignore.
Today Kiyomi and I were in Nagoya going to see one of her friends play in an orchestra. Walking to the hall along the one of the main roads we heard a sound behind us, turned around but could see noth... Read More
I can’t see it back there.
There is a kind of DIY shop here in Okazaki called D2 (or デイツ) which has pretty much everything for in and around the home, and at fairly competitive prices (IMHO). Anyways I have seen a number ... Read More
It snowed.
Well the weather was right. It snowed. Had about 5 cm in the morning. Nice and crunchy underfoot. Wrote my name in the snow…. with a stick. heheh. That was about it. Had to sweep the path clean ... Read More