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A brief, commemorative message

As of this month, I've been blogging for five years. Of course, it took me at least four and a half years before I started updating on a regular basis...

In case you were wondering...

...I'm still here. Sorry I haven't been posting more often; I've discovered that if you drop the blogging habit for a little while, it's difficult to get back into it.

It's been real busy at work, now that we've started elementary school visits for the second term. Busy, but nothing out of the ordinary, so not a lot of blogging inspiration there. But, I'm sure once i have more than two minutes of free time in a row, I'll think of more stuff to say.

I'll try to ramp up the posting frequency again soon.

It's a little better

Well, today it only hit 34.7 degrees...That's only 95 or so out there in gaikokuland.

Anyway, I lasted about a week with the two-posts-a-day thing. Although I could still re-format something and back date it, meh. I have noticed that two posts a day pushes posts off the front page quite rapidly, and if you're not a "regular reader," several posts could drop away without you ever noticing them.

(This of course presumes that I have "regular readers," of course. (^_^))

For the time being, I'm gonna throttle back a bit. One post a day for sure, perhaps two.

Rob

More Technical Difficulties

I'm having some problems with Blogger not being able to log into the FTP server, or something like that. So, although I'll be writing those two posts a day that I promised last week, they might not always go up on the blog in a timely fashion.

Oh well.

I got paid last Friday. Tomorrow I get the fun task of withdrawing several ten-thousands of yen and immediately turning it over to the government.

Annual taxes in Japan are paid in four installments bi-monthly, starting at the end of June. This year's taxes for some incomprehensible reason are exactly double last year's. Threw my budget all out of whack, dammit.

R.

Technical difficulties

My attempt at posting at a consistent rate may be stymied by odd technical problems. It seems that Blogger has problems uploading to snookles.com. Sometimes, posts upload with no problem. Other times, the upload hangs, and there's no way (from blogger) to abort and retry...

Let's see if this works.

Well, back at the beginning of 2007, I made two resolutions. The first was to stop drinking regular Coca-Cola -- too much sugar was giving me the fits. The other was to post on this blog more often.

As of now, with the year more than half-over, I can happily report that stopping the Coca-Cola has turned out to be no problem. (With the acceptable substitution of Coke Zero and Diet Coke, though.) However, the posting on the blog thing is more of a hit and miss thing, sadly.

So, today marks the beginning of an experiment. From today, Wednesday 8th August, I promise to post at least twice a day for as long as I can.

Here's hoping I last longer than a week.

Rob