I produced a new YouTube video today if you are interested in seeing what my Sunday was like ... live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVLmMtrHR_c (I really wanted to give Matt one of each...)

Veggies From The Universe

This morning at 9am, the Kuroneko courier buzzed my interphone and told me she had a parcel for me. I had no idea what it could be, but as she was quite cute, I let her in, and she came up (good thing I don't live in the basement otherwise I would have had to say, "and she went down").

I signed for the parcel. It was huge. I mean big. And H.E.A.V.Y.!

So I brought it into the kitchen, opened it up and it was full of vegetables!

From Ito-san in Kamishii-mura! (the ones to whom I gave the fridge and laundry machine)

The vegetable guy!

They are the ones who always brought us hakusai (chinese cabbage), daikon, onions (round and long), cucumbers out the wazoo, eggplant, cabbage, corn and more!

I had no idea that they would do this so I was grinning ear to ear as I counted them all out:

Eight daikon and seven hakusai!

I have no idea what the heck I am going to do with them all other than try to give most away because I won't be able to eat this much cabbage or radish even if I suddenly transmogrify into a rabbit!

So I called Ito-san up, thanked him profusely and asked him how to "store" all these veggies. He told me. And so I shall do. They are on the balcony drying out a bit, and then I will wrap the hakusai back up in the newspaper and store them upside down (base at the to, ears facing down) so they don't rot. The daikon I'll just keep in the fridge.

The more love you send out to the Universe, the more it comes back multiplied!

Want to come on by for a nabe party?

I love you!

Cambit Hasen Pfeffer

*wriggles nose in delight*

Great New Program

Here's a "great" new program at my gym that I'm sure every native english speaker is just "dying" to sign up for!

Of course it is a shortened version of "hot stretch", designed to warm you up before you exercise... but man... couldn't they have come up with something just a little less... *gag*

The Internet Axe Murderer's Club Welcomes Carol Draczynski

Welcomes with the loving arms of Globalized Love!

Debunking the Myth: An Internet Axe Murderer Story (Part 1)

(Four parts to this series)

Oh. My. God. I LOVE doing this!!!!!

Mission Accomplished.

I love you!

Cam

Pissed!!

Rushing this morning I got everything done I wanted to do: get up, wash, do laundry, cook a steak and eat it, play music from sky.fm, do dishes, vacuum, spruce up the place, cedar up myself. pine up the steak-scented apt, and catch the 9am train (caught the 9:10) for the hospital.

After that's done it is off to Shinjuku for an adventure (keep an eye on my youtube channel for details) . Tomorrow I'm meeting Matt for lunch @ an undecided local (he works today or I'm sure he would partake in this adventure as well).

Sooooo... I get everything done, throw my fake leather jacket (designed by H&M but slapped together in The World's Factory), bowed to the House Elves and gave them my "Itte kimasu" salutation as I do every time I part from my abode, locked the door, caught the elevator down, and on my way out of the elevator...




slipped in a puddle of very obviously bright yellow DOG PEE and nearly wiped myself out!!!!

My apt is a pet-friendly place. People lodge complaints about hearing bumps and thumps coming from other apts but then they ignore their dog pissing in the lobby of our security entrance (only residents can get into that part of the foyer)!

Talk about being pissed! Not me... the poor dog who probably felt bad about it because dogs are smart enough to "know when to hold it, and know when to fold it. Know when to walk away and know when to run..."

Well, just another example of how so many humans all around the world go through life totally unaware of their surroundings. They miss out on so much that is wonderful about life and living when they close themselves in the dark batcave of their mind.

Time to change trains so I hope your day and evening goes well and don't forget to check my YouTube channel in a day or two!

Love
Cam

*shakes head in disbelief at puddle of insensitive dog urine in front of the elevator entrance*

I watched MJ's "This is It" tonight. It was an excellent story showing the rehearsal to quite possibly the best concert that never happened. I recommend it, especially for the latest Michael Jackson sound.

It's all in how you see it

Morning.

I think I'll skip this 8:15 and catch the 8:20 instead. That way I can catch a better position (maybe) by being first in line now (bye train) and also it allows me to perceive that I have plenty of time (I do!) instead of arriving and immediately jumping on the train...

If you change the way you perceive things, you change your reality. That is all there is to it.

Have a good one.

I love you!

Cam

Talk About Housewife Bargains!

I took the morning off to use up some overtime in October. I wanted to get a few things done to catch up after being gone all weekend. What I found was shocking!

It seems that during the mornings is when they put all the meat on sale. It must be to entice the housewives into the stores. The steak was all 50% off... so I bought 12. Lucky me!! Other meat was on discount so I filled up my freezer. I ended up spending $150 for two shopping baskets worth (not two american-sized carts but the hand-held baskets).

I also found a place to try and trim up my Eddie Bauer tents that used to be sportscoats to fit my arms and bodylength... but not much else. Dropped one off and will pick it up and see how it looks. If good Ill take in the rest later.

Trains here. Gotta run. Love you!

I am back in Tokyo, and doing laundry.

I just enjoyed a house-rattling earthquake at 23:53 tonight. Shake, rattle and roll, baby!

Breakfast at Maxxany's

I'm sitting in their family room having my first Hokuriku breakfast in nearly three months (I wish I could attach the photo I took.).

The rain poured like it never does in Tokyo...

My hair is frizzy from the humidity...

The cold damp house already has my toes aching and the kerosene heaters kick off that unmistakeable wet heat which feels good and bad at the same time...

breathe in....

breathe out....

smile......

The mountains still have that glorious autumn captain crunchberry explosion of colour...

The birds sing gaily with songs I have not heard for a quarter of a year...

And now its time to make the coffee, go down to the studiodungeon, sit by the fire a bit as Max & Co. are working and. warm. up. I always thought their house was unusually cold... it is! Stephanie remembers how chilly it is in here in spite of all the warm hearts that abound.
I'm home.

That's One Hungry Puppy

One of the things I miss about living in Kamishii-mura is all the guys selling stuff in their little lorries. There would be fruit trucks, laundry pole trucks, guys offering to yake away your old electronics and white goods. I miss the yaki-imo man especially because those guys are linked to the chilly late autumn/early winter days...

So imagine my delight upon arriving at and exiting my subway station last night when I came upon a singing food truck!

Singing away was one of thos ubiquitous "singing food trucks". However this truck was different from what I have seen to date. It was the first time in my twenty years to hear the recording belting out a lonely mournful song about delicious, hot, juicy "hotto doggu".

I went home with a smile and cooked a delicious dinner!

Have a great weekend; it's a long one for me. Im going to visit Max & Co. I haven't seen my closest male friend in Japan for almost three months and I miss him fiercely!

I love you!
Cam

Twice as Fucking Fast

The exciting sex-for-profit news never ends...

Believe it or not I'm not looking for this stuff; I get a finance newsletter with topics and today's first topic discusses an erectile dysfunction drug that works twice as fast as Viagra... meaning men can now have an erection in less than 30 minutes! Talk about lightning a quick response!

I'm sure women will be dancing in the streets, the bars and the bedrooms over THIS news!

Cam

P.S. Now if this meant that men could have twice the amount of orgasms in the same amount of time, bedroom life might be a little more exciting!

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Faster Than Viagra
Nov 18 2009 12:40pm EDT

Viva Avanafil isn't a very catchy marketing slogan.

But a little company called Vivus Inc. says its impotence drug works twice as fast as Viagra in a study: Erections in half an hour or less.

Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra is the original and dominant player in the so-called erectile-dysfunction drug market, controlling about half of the $3.8 billion in annual sales. Eli Lilly & Co.'s rival drug Cialis makes up 40 percent of the market, and Bayer AG's Levitra has 10 percent.

Vivus, a money-losing biotech company in Mountain View, California, figures it can gain share because of its speedy results. By late next year or early 2011, it will apply for U.S. approval to sell Avanafil.

“Patients want on-demand therapy because when the mood is right, the mood is right,” CEO Leland Wilson tells Bloomberg News. “We’ve shown efficacy in 30 minutes, and no one else has done that.”

But it's going to be tough going up against the marketing machines of Pfizer, Lilly, and Bayer. Vivus lost $21 million in the third quarter and had only $226.9 million in cash as of September 30. Pfizer spent $9.5 billion through nine months this year on marketing and administrative costs alone, and that's a reduction from last year.

What's more, there are signs of a softening market, so to speak. Viagra sales fell 6 percent through nine months this year to $1.34 billion.

Vivus sells an older impotence treatment called Muse that was approved in the late '90s just before Viagra was approved. But unlike the little blue pill, Muse is a medicated pellet inserted through the urethra. Bad timing for a breakthrough product.

And speaking of timing, it's not great for Avanafil, either, says J.P. Morgan analyst Cory Kasimov.

Viagra's patent protection runs out in 2012, meaning Avanafil and all branded drugs will have cheap competitors. For a new entrant, it "could prove challenging in a market poised to go generic," Kasimov says in a note to investors.

Are You Fucking Depressed?

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY TURNS ANTI-DEPRESSANT DRUG
INTO LIBIDO-ENHANCER FOR WOMEN!

MEN REJOICE IN THE STREETS, BARS & BEDROOMS!

 

It amazes me how drug companies will to to any lengths of "creativity" to keep their billion dollar flops alive so that they can reap profits as much as possible. I guess it makes sense, in a sick sort of way...

 

I guess if they did it with Viagra for men, then they should be able to do it for women, too After all, I am sure there are a lot of women out there who might like to say, "Yes tonight, honey. Even though I have a headache!"

 

Just imagine how lucky all those depressed women out there must feel! Now they can be more than "just depressed", they can be "fucking depressed"!

 

I can hardly wait to see what all the contraindications on the outside of the box say (ever seen what can happen to you on Viagra? Pretty scary...): "This drug may cause headaches, dry mouth, soreness. It can lead to an increase in stubble burn, acne, heart attack, and multiple orgasms. Women with husbands with weak hearts should have their husbands consult a physician before consumption."

 

Cam

 

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Failed anti-depressant flibanserin reborn as female “Viagra”?
By Gareth Macdonald, 18-Nov-2009

Boehringer Ingelheim looks set for a significant windfall with results from Phase III trials indicating that its drug flibanserin can boost sexual desire in women, raising the prospect of a female equivalent to Pfizer’s Viagra.

The findings, reported at the appropriately named congress of the European Society for Sexual Medicine, showed that women on the drug experienced a statistically significant increase in “satisfying sexual events,” (SSE) versus the control group

In two of the main 24 week studies, Daisy and Violet, women treated with 100mg flibanserin per day reported 4.5 SSEs per month from a baseline of 2.8, while those in the placebo group increased to 3.7 SSEs from 2.7 at the start of the trial

Additionally, women involved in those trials, as well as the European Orchid study, reported a significant increase in sexual desire.

Boehringer plans to file flibanserin for regulatory approval in the next few months.

Change of indication

Like Pfizer’s Viagra, which was first trialled as a medication for cardiac disorders, flibanserin was originally developed with another indication in mind, namely as a treatment for depression.

And, although flibanserin failed as a depression therapy, in another echo of the Viagra  experience, women involved in the trials reported an increase in sexual activity and satisfaction.

As a result, in 2002 Boehringer began investigating flibanserin as a libido booster in pre-menopausal women suffering from hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD), culminating in the three Phase III studies reported on Monday.

Market demand

Understandably perhaps, given both the market success of Viagra and the estimate that HSDD affects up to 25 per cent of women worldwide, the flibanserin trial results attracted a considerable amount of attention.

However whereas, rightly or wrongly, Viagra has gained a reputation as an “on demand” lifestyle drug, flibanserin’s libido boosting affects depend on a gradual build up over a number of weeks, so it may not see the same levels of demand.

Nevertheless, most observers agree that there is a significant market for a HSDD treatment, with estimates ranging from Decision Resources’ $100m a year valuation to the $3.5bn figure forecast by BioSante Pharmaceuticals’ CEO Stephen Simes.

Obama did the right thing

Here is an article focusing on Obama's deep bow of respect and reverence to Emperor Akihito: "How low will he go?"

He did the right thing; rather than show the typical "might is right" response that many of the former presidents and secretaries of state in the USA have done, Barack Obama paid respect to the emperor of the country that is funding a huge number of US military bases on their own land, and working toward continuing developing good relationships, in spite of the changing of the guard.

President Obama is AWARE.

I'm glad he did bow deeply. The fact that the newsmongrels are focusing on this kind of thing just goes to show, exactly as Jen's blog regarding "a skinny Obama" also shows, that people just. don't. get. it.

Obama gets it.

Cam

Bear Naked Leather(ette)

Yesterday Mayu and I went to see the Habsburg Collection, a very rare art collection by one of the most loved (?) imperial families of Austria for six centuries (19 emperors), The Habsburgs. They were meticulous about collecting art, and portraying their family heritage through portrait paintings.

"Rudolf I (died 1291), the first of nineteen emperors from the house of Habsburg, a noble family of Swiss origin, came to power in 1273. His defeat of King Otakar II of Bohemia (r. 1253–78) five years later gained significant territorial holdings for the Habsburgs in Austria, the cornerstone of their empire. By the sixteenth century, the imperial title was long regarded as hereditary, allowing the Habsburg dominion to expand dramatically over continental Europe not only through military conquest but also through carefully chosen marriage alliances..."

The art was beautiful and spanned quite a few centuries. It was a very beautiful collection to see, and watch the centuries recorded in art. I am glad I went.

Above is a photo of the inner atrium (and Mayu) to the art gallery... pretty amazing building all in all!

After that, Mayu and I went to a bar for a drink, to chat, and then we visited Zara, and I found this "leather" jacket. It's pretty cool.

And that is that.

Cam

P.S. As I stayed at Mayu's last night, and didn't have anything to sleep in, she lent me this oversized t-shirt. It says quite a few interesting things on the front with some fun drawings. I don't know if you can enlarge this photo or not, but if you look closely, you will see that it does say, "Famous Sausage".

 

Singly Delicious

I finished work about 19:40 tonight. I spent pretty much the entire day from 11am sitting in the lunchroom with a window partially open, working on market research for a company we are interested in possibly working with. The office is simply too hot for me and in fact while everyone seems to be freezing their flat Japanese asses off, I am boiling mine off! It feels like a beautiful cool late autumn day in Fukui without the humidity so I love the breeze. Not my coworkers... so I decided rather than sitting there all day I would DO something about it. I'm tired of going home with a drenched undershirt (that I hate wearing but have to in order to keep my dress shirt semi-dry) and sopping (s)we(a)t gotch.

I got most of the data collected and now I need to convert it all to Japanese next week. Then I need to do the same thing for three other companies...

Instead of going straight home very hungry I decided to go alone to the standing/eating/drinking place that Kyoko and I have been to a few times now. I am having a (1) beer and some yakitori etc. I hope it tides me over so I can go home and cook dinner.

Tomorrow I go to the hospital again so it will be an early morning. I had better get my laundry washed and hung tonight because Mayu invited me to go to a world famous art gallery from Europe that is here. This is one of the good things of Tokyo: all the global culture comes here and you have a ton to see if that interests you. I figured I would tag along because this is apparently a rare display that is extremely popular around the world.

One of the guys is outside clapping and calling out to the night hoping to catch some hungry night walkers... one of the many things I love about Japan.

Have a good weekend!

Thumbingly yours,

Cam

P.S. I guess there are a lot of these kinds of Friday nights when you are single and have no romantic attachments...

Air Supply

Today I taught a class at 9:30am. I made sure to turn the AC on in the small meeting room 30 minutes before the class began. It was not cold at all, but at least the air was moving. I left the door open.

The six or seven students arrived and we started the class. After a few minutes one person closed the door. Within five minutes there was sweat running down my back!

The room was not overly hot, but my forehead was dripping, my armpits were soaked, and I could feel the rivulet down the center of my back, along the valley of the spine.

It was then that I concluded that the temperature is not such a big deal; it's the Air Supply that makes me drenched. The air conditioners are large ceiling-mounted things, but they don't seem to work all that well. Apparently all of the ACs on my floor were checked and cleaned this past weekend but this didn't seem to help the problem.

Tomorrow I will conduct an experiment: I am going to suggest we leave the door open to get some better circulation, and see what happens.

I am "glad" (rabbit ears) that I wore an undershirt today. I do not like wearing undershirts because they just heat up my core. So many people here (men and women) swear by them, but although I have tried several times, the result is always the same: the underwear absorbs the sweat that my body produces from the heat, and also from the increase in core temperature due to the "layering" (rabbit ears). My head heats up and my body feel so hot when I wear an undershirt.

Maybe I just have a weird body...

I finished dinner and the dishes, and a glass of my favourite wine: YellowTail Cabernet Sauvignon (which is the red label if you ever want to try it). I am having my coffee now and then I think I will jump in the shower, pull the gauze out of the hole in my chest, clean myself, shave myself (comprehensive), and then stuff more gauze into the hole (I figured out how to do it ver well...)

Have a great day.

I love you!
Cam

Wrong Way Feldman!

Woah did I do a cultural faux pas this morning! (I am at the hospital now with Lucky #5 and have a 30min wait so I have time to thumb this...)

I can never remember which end of the train to get on so that I am nearest my destination. As strange as it may sound, depending on which set of stairs you descend the feel of your location (if one does not have NSEW spacial relation ability, and I do not possess this very helpful ability) changes.

So I went dow the stairs in the opposite direction from which I usually go, effectively putting me at the other end of the train. Although the cars are all numbered from 1-8 or 10 number one is not always the lead car so that adds to the confusion.

As I was going down to the platform my train was already spewing forth the denizen so I needed to rush a bit in order to jump in.

My mind was preoccupied with the thought concerning whether or not this was the right end of the train or not, for you see, I have to transfer to a different line at Morishita Stn in order to come to the hospital and that transfer area is ONLY at one end of the station. If you go up the stairs at the opposite end you have to walk the length of the station then go back down to the depths only to walk over to a different set of stairs that you then must climb. Once ascending those stairs you walk a bit and then go down another long flight of steps that lead to the correct platform (Oedo Subway Line, one of the deeper lines in the country).

As it turned out I was on the wrong end of the train this morning but that is neither here nor there. I digress...

I jumped on my train with my mind pre-occupied. I then immediately pulled out my book (not Kindle) and delved into it. About three stops from Morishita I looked up and around to see a masked elderly woman staring intently at me. I get stared at all the time so it didn't particularly set off any warning bells; however the intensity of her gaze was noted in my pre-occupied brain.

It was then that I ended a chapter in my book and actually looked around the car with the purpose of actually SEEING and absorbing my NOW surroundings. I like the feeling of being able to see above most of the heads (a perk of being very tall is that your face never gets crushed by a sea of heads and backs and the air is a little less stale, albeit hot).

At that moment I distinctly noted that the average height of the people in the car was unusually even and rather... low.

And then it hit me: I was in a women-only car!!!

So I grabbed my bag, apologized to the women around me telling them that I just realized where I was and slipped through the adjoining door to car #2 which was jam packed with all manners of suited japanese men and women.

From 7am-9:30 Car #1 is for women only. *blush* No wonder the air was so much fresher this morning!

Suddenly the car felt very hot...

Oops! I won't take that route tomorrow morning!

Thumbingly Yours,
Feldman

P.S. I wish somebody would have simply SAID something!

PPS. It took 30mins to type this.

20 Minutes in Heaven

Akemi figures that my waiting here in Kofu for 20 minutes is a waste of precious time... How wrong she is she will likely never truly comprehend.

Instead of working an hour longer in Tokyo then rushing to Shinjuku to jump on a direct train to Kobuchizawa, arriving at 17:01 when the meeting with all the staff out here is supposed to start at 5pm, I opted for a train that leaves an hour earlier and stops for 20 minutes in the mountain city of Kofu.

And OMFG I am so glad I did! The mountains! The rivers! The forests turning that gorgeous Cap'n Crunchberry red/orange/yellow! The rice paddies and more!

The air is gorgeous! It feels sooo good to be OUT of the Big Rice Bowl after two months.


And this old train is just like the one that ran from Fukui to Katsuyama... Only about six times longer!

Wow... I can breathe again!

The Pussy Chronicles: Lucky #7

Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Saturday, and today, Monday. Yep, visit number five...

Morning,

It's Monday morning and I am back at the hospital early waiting for them to start calling "bingo numbers". My doctor begins at 9am. I got here early so I could get an early number. I got Lucky 7 this time. That may be the second or third patient; I have noted in my few visits these past couple of weeks that the numbers do not increase by incrememnts of one.

No antibiotics nor pain killers were issued when I came on Saturday to enjoy the "fountain experience", so aside from an uncomfortable weekend I will be interested to see how this open wound is progressing.

I am NOT however looking forward to the doctor pulling the gauze out of the wound. If my skin heals as quickly as it seems to do (barring all that exciting pussy stuff), then I have a sneaky suspicion that the flesh has partially melded with the fibrous gauze and is likely attempting to incorporate it into my essence.

I will let you know in the best explanation I can muster what it feels like when he pulls it out and also what the doctor says regarding the progress...

I love Life and all the adventures She brings!

Thumbingly Yours,

Pussy Cam

A Stitch in Time...

At the hospital again...

I got Lucky #10 today and was in seeing the doctor by 09:10. He looked at my poor swollen pec, said that it had filled up again and that it would need cutting and draining again. I kind of figured that so today I brought a spare pair of gotch this time so I don't have to spend the day in "pain-drenched unnuhpaynts" like last Saturday.

I asked the doctor if it was a cyst and he said no; cysts are not infected. This is an infection so it is considered an abcess.

Lovely.

I have an abcessed nipple.

He also noted that my skin heals "too quickly" as the incision last Saturday shouldn't have healed by Sunday night.

So... he filled me up with anaesthetic again which hurt like piss (but not as much as the first time). As soon as he touched the scalped to the previous location I felt the pressure release and the pus and blood inside mixed with the liquid he injected squirted out like a fountain spraying his nice crisp white labcoat and facemask! I felt it squirt all over me as well. I heard the nurse say to another nurse, "I'm sure glad I wasn't standing beside the doctor!"

The doctor squeezed it out and stuffed it with gauze. This time he told me he is going to leave the gauze in for a while to prevent it from closing and that I have to come back every day to have it changed.

I apologized for squirting him. He took off his no-longer-crisp-white labcoat.

Life is full of adventures and I certainly get my fair share. But that's what living is all about, or so I believe. I'd much rather die adventuring than regretting I didn't challenge life.

I've never had an abcessed wound before so now I can add that to my list of exciting happenings! I guess I'll be working overtime to make up for the lost time.

I'm thinking it's going to start stinging when the anaesthetic wears off. It's OK right now though, an hour later...

The funny thing is that he told me I don't need any more antibiotics but rather I just need it to drain and have it cleaned. If I could re-stuff the abcess with gauze I could do it myself but I can't and that's why I need to keep coming back.

Oh! In a semi-unrelated incident... I missed my first transfer station and had to double back because I was so engrossed in my book... Sword & Sorcery can do that.

I'm meeting my translator for lunch today in Shibuya but as that is two hours away and it will only take me about 15 minutes to get there I wonder what I can do to kill the time?

Well I killed about an hour thumbing this blog... Now I guess I'll go find a Starbucks near Shibuya and settle in with my Kindle for a while. That's an enjoyable way to spend a few hours outdoors.

Stranger than Blixen

I am enjoying lunch outside again. People walk by and stare. You'd think they've never seen a very tall, slim. handsome white guy in a pastel purple Hugo Boss dress shirt and the perfectly matching deep scintillating purple necktie with diagonal stripes running in the same direction... eating lunch outside in the middle of a concrete roundaboot before!

What? Do I have antlers growing out of my head or something?!? Hmmmmm maybe I should! Then again I might end up as "camshimi".

I love you!
Blixen

Throwing in the Towel

I left work just before 7pm this evening, fairly hungry but determined to get to the gym. It has been weeks since I had the time and energy to do so.

I stopped at McDs outside my station for a Double Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese (X2) and a coffee. I tossed the buns, of course and let my body absorb the vitamins, minerals, natural fats and protein in the meat... ahhhh. It hit the spot and kept me going.

I went home, changed, and grabbed my Eddie Bauer bag that is my gym bag, headed to the station and caught my train.

It was a good workout though the weeks away have weakened me. And the beer after work with Kyoko and others has put a kilogram of chub around the waist. As much as I hate the way it feels, it is kind of necessary for me to make it through the unheated winter nights without leg and feet cramps nightly. Crazy I know, but having a bodyfat percent above 10% does have its advantages.

I enjoyed the workout but couldn't get any of the women to chat with me (no mojo me). A couple guys nattered their heads off about silly stuff.

I fell asleep on the mat after my floor work and stretches for ... oh about... 25 minutes. It felt refreshing. I went down to the bath, got out of my workout clothes (cycling stuff I wore once a month ago and thought to use for workout soon after but they just sat in my gym bag for... could that be why nobody talked to me tonight?!? *gasp*) and grabbed my shampoo, face scrub (metrosexual me) my razor and---

I realized that I had completely forgotten to throw in the towels!!!

I managed to gedderdunn but it took quite a while to dry off this superheated onsen body with a blowdryer!

Now I am enjoyong my riceless tonkatsu teishoku dinner next door to the gym. It amazes me how cheaply we can eat out here in Japan compared to North America. It used to be the other way around but not any more.

Thumbingly Yours
Cam

Giddy Up!

The concert was great.
The bulldog and the beer, hit the spot.

And now...

I'm enjoying...

A scrumptious dish of...

Raw

Horse

Meat!

Mmmmmmmmm!

Four new videos up on my youtube.com/camswitzer account.

My second E-book for the Kindle is "The Tales of Solomon Kane". Why? because my best friend Khanada is always talking about the actor who is playing in the latest Solomon Kane movie as she is a huge fan of his! And I LIKE Robert E. Howard as he pretty much invented the "sword & sorcery" genre. The stories are very well-written but as it was back in the 30s (I think), when he battles the "black/negro barbaric brutes" in Africa I cringe a bit because the way he describes them is kind of ... not in a way that authors would write these days... if you know what I mean. It is very noticeable. I find it interesting that I am acutely aware of that, and that in spite of it being literary genius, my comfort levels are tested.

Ahhhh... I love the smell of geriatric in the morning!