December 2006

Really this is the first good one I have had in a while. This morning I woke up a little later than I had planned. Satomi was already up. I took a quick shower man was it cold and then got dressed quickly. I went upstairs to the attic and got out the presents for Eric that we had bought I put them on the couch in our room where Eric was sleeping on the bed. I was quiet and careful not to wake him. Next I went down and got THE HUGE box of presents my mom dad and Sister Mary had sent. I put those on the couch as well then made allot of noise as I removed the box from room hoping Eric would wake up and see all the presents. No such luck. He was in a deep sleep. Satomi came upstairs and we woke Eric up together. He was kind of slow to realize it what was going on but when he actually saw all the presents he jumped out of the bed and rushed across to the couch. He said "WOW ipaidat!" (There’s allot) The rest of event took less than 10 minutes as he tore through the presents. He would pick one up and ask if it was his, if it was he opened it right away. He got lots of great stuff like a remote control submarine, 2 sets of laser tag guns (one from Aunt Mary and one from the whole Hughes Family! Thanks Mom and Dad the extra set will be cool for team play!) Some Japanese learning games that he really seems to love.... and he is pretty good at. Clothes of course and some candy in his stocking with the perfect compliment to that..... A new Spiderman electric tooth brush.

So in todays news under the global section we find; 1. Some of my brothers from the USMC are in big trouble for taking their rage out on a bunch of civilians in Iraq. Marines in Haditha I'm on the fence about this one. If you had ever been shot at for the sake of some else's POLICY you would be too. 2. In tech news I found a pretty good article on ZFS and why it is a good and not just for servers. (I use it!) ZFS! 3. In the good humor section my fellow TLUGer Bawdow sent me this CYBER FUN. You might want to not read this at work cause it is so dam funny you will be laughing out loud! 4. Did a maintenance to a server at work .... ERRRRR but why do you think I am writing this at 3 AM! 5. I finally figured out that dam sym link problems in VSFTPD... it took about 5 seconds of GOOGLE and 3 seconds to solve ..... wish I would have done that last week .... when I had time. mount --bind olddir newdir Duhh!! So if your a non-local and are jonezzen for some TV let me know.

For about the 15th time in the past month I walked into the bathroom here at work and looked out the window. As I relived myself and watched people come and go on the street below. I was greeted by a all to familiar tune. Some guy in one of the stalls using the Wash-letO to clean him self for some 5 MINUTES! Give it a rest PLEASE that is what they make TP for... I know after 2000 years of pissing and crapping in holes in the ground a built in ass washer must seem like a treat. But please lets not abuse it. E./

REALLY　 There are allot of things that are a little difficult to deal with about Japan and especially working for a large company in Japan but this is really to much. I work with a bunch of skilled technicians and my bosses are not bad either. From time to time we have our differences but, we all have getting the job done and running a good service as a core principles. So it is easy to chalk any problems up as WORK. But there was one guy who had some problems and he would not show up to work from time to time (I haven't personally seen him in over 5 months.) and he would also not follow thru and finish his work, even the most simplest of tasks. He was initially on my team and when I arrived he was out "sick". Around the time I finished my 3 months probation and was told I was a full time employee I saw MR. S. for the first time. Then he spent a week reading his old mail that he had from his previous absence for about a WEEK. We worked on a couple of problems together and he made things worse by freaking out all the time and telling every one things that didn't matter and when a resolution was reached forgetting to tell everyone how it was resolved. It was a nightmare working with him. I tried to keep my frustration to myself cause it is really helpful to have a native Japanese speaker on my team.