Gaijin in Tokyo

ミクシィ。

けっこう前、妻に誘われてミクシィに登録した。といっても、その後一度もログインしていない。今日久しぶりに再ログインして、このブログを設定 した。これからブログのトラフィックはだんだん上がるでしょうか？（正解：上がりっこない）

A while ago I was invited to sign up for the popular social networking site in Japan called Mixi. I haven’t hardly touched it since I signed up. Today I logged in for the first time since I signed up put a link back to my blog. Will that get me more visitors?? (answer: not really)

…test of Flock 0.7.1 ’s new blogging tool. I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Flock. The blogging tool doesn’t seem as convenient to use as the old tool with the previous version 0.5 of Flock that I had been using. However, they did seem to fix an annoying problem with cutting and pasting URL links (i.e. before you could only paste in the link dialog box if you copied the link after the dialog box was opened). Also, unfortunately my blog posts that I made under version 0.5 are no longer visible, though I have found the file containing my blog posts, “blog_alpha_02.rdf”, in the “C:\Documents and Settings\My user name\Application Data\Flock\Browser\Profiles\…default\” folder. I’ll see if I can find where the new version stores the blog posts and add the old posts to the file with the new posts somehow…

However, I may probably just start using a different blog editing software to prevent this from happening again in the future…

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Blogged with Flock

(so declared one of my office mates last week) 

Spring has finally arrived! …after the mostly gray, cold, wet, rainy and generally dismal weather of March here in Paris.

The weather is clearing up and getting warmer. Birds are singing and trees are flowering and buding new leaves as nature springs back to life from its winter slumber. I’ve really missed this Spring transitional period during the past six years. In Austin there wasn’t much to Spring as most trees and plants thrived year-long without shedding their foliage. In Austin the only seasons are Summer (hot) and not-Summer (mild). I had no sense of the passing of the seasons. But now, I can really feel a kind of rejuvenation coupled with the return to life that Spring brings. It’s a feeling I haven’t felt in a long time! I have the sudden urge to frolic outside…

The other day I left work a little bit early (well ok, it was already 7pm) just to walk around and enjoy the beginning of Springtime outdoors with my wife. What was that song? …

 

I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace

Till April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom
Holiday tables under the trees
April in Paris, this is a feeling
That no one can ever reprise

I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace

Till April in Paris
Whom can I run to
What have you done to my heart

(by Vernon Duke and E. Y. Harburg, 1932)

Yes, April in Paris… What a nice time of year.

新しい情報がますます増えてきたのに最近、あんまりブログを書いていないね。そして英語ばかりだね。日本方にごめんね。もうちょっと日本語で書くようにしなきゃね。

Hello, and welcome to my blog.

こんにちは、僕のブログへようこそ。

I am a U.S. citizen currently living in Tokyo, Japan. I had been meaning to start a blog ever since arriving in Japan last June. Now I’m finally starting one.

僕は現在に東京に住んでいるアメリカ人です。６月に来日してからずっとブログを始めようと思っていました。やっと始めます。

I’ll attempt to make it bilingual (or multilingual) as much as possible so that I can also use this opportunity to practice my written Japanese as well. Of course, making the blog multilingual has the extra added benefit of increased accessibility for the reader.

日本語を書くことを特訓するためにこのブログをできるだけバイリンガルにしようとすることにしました。もちろんバイリンガルならこのブログが日本人に対して楽になるでしょうかね。　＊笑顔＊

I’ll use this as a web log (or “blog”, if you will, haha) to chronicle my experiences living “abroad”, various musings, etc, and as a general diary for posterity.

このブログ（またはブログだ：「ウェブ・ログ」の書略だ）を記録にして色んな海外で住む体験や思い出などを保つように、または意見を表すように、使います。