Playing "Catch" is dangerous there.

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Nah, I don't throw knives at people. I chase them with swords. I throw knives at the cats. LOL. Honestly, I have a target set up in the backyard for throwing knives and guns. Though I do practice stage sword fighting with a cousin of mine. It's all improvised and I'm still learning, but it's coming along.

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I was reading one of the news stories on Yahoo's home page about the earthquake in Japan. It's especially interesting to me because I lived one year in Sendai and another six months in a small suburb called Tagajo. Both were referenced in the article. Sendai had been a city of about 500,000 people when I lived there and Tagajo was maybe 2,000 to 4,000 people. Sendai is now over one million and Tagajo I read somewhere was now actually a small city of about 60,000.

Even more interesting, two of the people I usually have coffee with during the week know the area. One lived in Sendai (left the year we arrived) and the other was in Fukashima (a nearby community) which is where the nuclear plant has been seriously damaged.

Brings the devastation and damage home in a very profound way. Streets I walked on in Tagajo have disappeared and it's hard to imagine a city the size of Sendai facing the damage and struggles they're facing now. In some ways, it maybe even worse than Katrina was to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Needless-to-say, my heart and prayers go out to the people of Japan (especially northeastern Japan) and the grief they are enduring now.

New rule: If I've tried 3 times to return your call, and left 3 messages, my obligation is complete. You can call me if you want to talk to me.

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I think you were generous to give 3. If I made a call, expected a return and did not get one, I'd assume there was no need for another.

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New Orleans and outlying towns had plenty of warning of Katrina and were failed by the people whose job it was to protect them, from the Army Corps of Engineers to the city and town administrators.

Sendai had 10 minutes warning after a damaging and disorienting earthquake. The poor buggers never stood a chance.

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Two calls and one message is my limit.

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If you refuse to answer me, I blow up your phone until you do. I figure if I'm going to waste my time trying to get in touch with you, I can annoy you and try to waste your time.

I wasn't able to get the car I was hoping to. Guess I need to keep looking.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

Sad facts. ^^^

The warnings went much further back than the days of the event and the reactions afterward was a Chinese fire drill of incompetence and politics.

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One-Trick Pony should've been 60 today. I really wish he were here for me to give him a hard time about his age. I miss him so.

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(((hugs))))

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Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

Off to the specialist tomorrow. Hopefully to take the staples out *L*

I've been doing a bit, very very carefully of course, with the hand, the last few days been out of the sling (more comfy that way). I can now type with the left hand, and can again write, so i'm rather chuffed at that. The elbow itself has a bit more movement, but i dont push it cause i dont wanna do more harm than good. I'm just stoked to be able to type again lol 1 finger typing sux!

So all in all, the last day has seen improvement, and hopefully it will just keep on eading in that direction.

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Finally got onto the internet. Darn cable network provider was having problems this morning and couldn't log on.

Fang: voice recognition is your friend. It also produces hilarious results.

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