jon on October 26th, 2009

If you have seen my status on my facebook page, then this will be old news to you. But, I just wanted to announce it here as well.
After thinking about it and tossing around many names for a few months, we finally picked one out!
Leah Claire Keating
And in Japanese: 梨愛
That is all for [...]

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jon on September 22nd, 2009

Since social health care is such a big issue in the states now, I thought I would just weigh in with a few notes.
In Japan we have a form of social health care. We make our monthly payments out of our paycheck, and then when we go to the doctor’s office/hospital and get medicine, we [...]

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jon on February 2nd, 2009

Living in Japan causes you to miss out on some things that I used to always take for granted in the states. One of those things is the Superbowl. Well football in general. I purchased an NFL Gamepass via Yahoo!, and watched many regular season games (mostly while at work!). But they make you pay [...]

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