I spend a lot of time in front of my computer. A lot of time — there are days when I go from bed directly to my laptop; spend my morning co...

You may have noticed that I'm posting more lately than I used to. Our paper has been submitted, so I guess it's not soaking up all m...

It's O'bon, the yearly summer holiday where many people return to their hometowns to meet relatives, attend festivals and honour the...

Cool people use twitter nowadays. I don't like to feel uncool more than anyone else 1 , so I made myself a twitter account some time ago...

We celebrated Ritsukos birthday last week. And as usual for our birthdays, we went for dinner somewhere we would not normally go. This year ...

I broke my coffee mug at work the other day. I'd just washed it, and the wet mug slipped out of my hands and shattered on the floor. It ...

My wayward brother and his girlfriend announced the birth of my niece Ella yesterday. Everybody seems to be fine and my brother seems almost...

Akasaka Prince Hotel It's Christmas Eve, and I'm taking a break from my end-of year panic together with Ritsuko. We've had a non...

We've just arrived home from our Tokyo weekend. I'll write a picture-post thing later, when I'm done with the images. Until then...

Remember that I'd reached 77kg about a month ago? I've lost another kilo since then, without even trying. There's nothing like ...

It really, really sucks to sort-of have a cold. I mean, at least a real, proper cold or an influenza is unambiguous: you have it or you don...

Seven years in Japan this month. And 77 kilos. Which is right at the upper end of normal weight for somebody my height. And it's 14 kilo...

Tsuyu, the rainy season, is declared for the Kansai area. It's about one week late - spring and summer has all been later than usual thi...

We have distinguished visitors, in the form of my parents, here in Osaka. They spent last week in Tokyo, and visit us here this week - we ha...

Not my desk. But it could be. I'm not an organized person. I mean, I'm really not organized. I have "could be useful" ema...

We're in Hokkaido for Christmas, where we're relaxing far away from the stresses of city life. We had a sleep in, had a long walk in...

Yay, a completely free Sunday! It's been hectic lately, with work, the JLPT test and all, so I decided I'd take this Sunday off. I w...

Ritsuko is traveling while I'm staying behind to work. But yesterday was Sunday so I went to Taisho ward in Osaka - that's part of t...

I'm not going to Sweden. Not exactly news, true; I'm not going to Shanghai, Shizuoka, Swaziland, Switzerland, Svalbard or the Seyshe...

I'm in Yokohama - actually, in Tsurumi, north of Yokohama proper - and preparing for a research meeting tomorrow and Friday; don't e...