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森恵「接吻 -kiss- (ORIGINAL LOVE)」

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Megumi Mori’s cover of 接吻 -kiss- by Original Love is so good! I hope you agree. It’s a great pop song.

After watching/listening to this, I decided to try to learn it on guitar, which is kind of a problem since I don’t know how to play guitar! But why should that stop me? With that in mind, I picked up Koa’s guitar, watched a couple beginner videos, and learned a couple of chords. As thousands of hopeful guitarists before me, I learned how to play E major and A major and then strummed along to Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”. That was actually quite fun and satisfying!

Anyways, it is kind of a goal of mine to learn a few tunes on the guitar so why not start now? It should be a fun experience. Who knows, someday I might be able to play 接吻 like Megumi Mori! (the singing though is impossible…)

First Day at the Pool

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Today was the first day at the pool for us this year. It was just Koa and I who decided to go — Mariko was out at the Farmer’s Market and Bay stayed home to read — so Koa didn’t have anyone to play with in the pool. I swam for a bit, and played with him, but I’m sure it’s a lot more interesting to play with his friends! Still, it was fun and we got some good exercise. We got there at 2pm, and there was a nice crowd of people there. Not too much that we didn’t find chairs, but at around 2:30 it seemed like the rest of the neighborhood decided to drop by. When we left at 3pm, there were cars parked on the street and no empty chairs to be found. I need to remember to arrive before 2:30!

Also, I continue to be enamored with my Panasonic DMC TS2 camera. It’s a waterproof/shockproof camera that captures some good pictures and video, and with the magic of post-processing, you can get some fun images out of it. Plus I love the peace-of-mind knowing that I don’t have to take care of the camera as much as a dSLR. I think it is definitely worth it to have one of these rugged point-and-shoot cameras in the bag at all times!

Day Off

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I’m so happy it’s the long weekend! It’s funny that a day off from work that happens every year always seem to creep up and surprise me. This time because of some things at work, I knew that we have Monday off, but still, the free day doesn’t seem to sink in until Saturday comes around. I don’t really have any plans but just the thought of a free day gets me in a good mood. Maybe it’s the anticipation or open possibilities of things that we can do that excite me… even the option of doing nothing but catch up on TV shows is a positive.

In the not-too-distant past I used to have a more negative frame of mind when I have a free day. Maybe not really negative per se, but I would kind of feel like I would be wasting time or missing an opportunity unless I have something planned. These days I like to just enjoy the fact that there is no plan. It’s ok not to have everything worked out in advance!

I think I may have mentioned something like this before regarding vacation planning (more specifically the lack of planning), but now I also like when it happens on a smaller scale, such as just a single day off. It’s a nice change of outlook and the stress reduction is amazing. Life’s too short to be stressed all the time! And taking time off just relaxing and reducing stress it definitely time well-spent!

First Sight (Love at)

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Print Club circa 1996
Print Club circa 1996

First Sight – Whether a person, a pet, an object, or a place, write about something or someone you connected with from the very first second.

This is an easy one! The person I connected with from the very first second is my wife, Mariko. We met in 1996 in Japan and within 2 months we were married and on our honeymoon. It really was love at first sight! After 17 years we are still going strong and I am looking forward to our future. There’s a lot more to the story, but I will save that for another time.

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