OnMyMind

It is raining at 2 AM as I pack up my bags to go. I had hoped to sleep about two more hours, but my daughter had a different plan. So after getting her back to sleep, I find myself wide awake and without good reason to stay in bed. Today is the day that I say goodbye to Shimane, West Nowhere, my home for the last six years. It was here that my wife and I shared our first home, where our two children were born, our familial hometown.

I just came across this photo of His Popeliness on Yahoo news. I think that maybe the photo editor over there has a good sense of humor…
Quiz: Which of the following statements about these photos is correct…

Is John Stewart a Firefox user?
Did the designers of the Daily Show set borrow the new color scheme from Firefox? Not that Firefox holds the patent on blue and orange, but those shades look awfully close…

As a parent, I was absolutely horrified to read this article about a 13 year-old boy who died for losing a baseball game.
“Saturday after the 63-year-old club manager had him do throwing practice for an hour starting at 5 p.m. and then a total of 300 sprints with other players. The manager said he had the boy, in his second year of junior high school, and other club members do the exercise as punishment for their losing the game earlier in the day.”

In the middle of the show the lead singer stopped to make a big announcement, once he had our attention he told us that their drummer would be marrying the daughter of the university dean the following weekend…. “I love you babyand I love your cat.I love the way you look at my fireman’s hat.â€?And with lyrics like that, singing along was easy.

FInally, after months of rationing my last three remaining euros worth of call time, Skype has stepped up and added Paypal as a payment option. I guess that I will be catching up on some phone calls this weekend.

In the internet age, it is amJapan Today: Jumbo jet passes within 200 meters of Tokyo Tower “An Orient Thai Airways chartered jumbo jet passed within 200 meters of the tip of Tokyo Tower in the early hours of Sept 19, Ministry of Transport officials said Monday.”