Hello everyone.
I have been busy. Threadless just ended its annual holiday sale (went out with a bang). Hiromi and I have been busy getting read for our holiday party with my parents on christmas (today!) and i have been hacking on a bunch of stuff in my spare time. Hiromi made an amazing dinner and [...]

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Today I found out that my dad was placed into the hospital to help him fight his infidel skin. Basically he has what is colloquially known as “extreme eczema,” but basically it seems that his skin is attempting to hijack his body and run it into a building. So with that in mind, he went [...]

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This weekend my parents visited. It was really awesome. They haven’t visited since Hiromi moved back – and they really wanted to see her. So they stopped by for a quick trip and some excellent dining.
They got in Thursday night – so Hiromi and myself went downtown and visited them at the Hard Rock Hotel [...]

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My brother and his wife are struck with a season of hard times. Its a bummer. He is a wonderfully happy person and I know they will get through this fine, but it seems that he is at that point I think almost all of us have been at, where it seems like there is no [...]

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After a really nice long week in Colorado I am sadly back in Chicago and back to work. We had a fun time. I got in two Fridays ago.
I arrived in Colorado the Friday before thanksgiving. My plane was arriving late – so my brother and his wife Sarah picked me up. We then drove [...]

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So this evening/Japanese morning Hiromi had her final visa interview. Everything went great. She got her visa and now she can come to the US. It is awesome how smooth everything has been in regards to our government/embassy/visa experience. I really think the key is how prepared we were.  We spent a lot of time [...]

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I started with thestoryofharper.com and then I created the site for hiromi and myself. So after writing all the cool classes to make this easy I decided to make the blogs.nata2.org site and then tonight I redid the reedbooks.org site to be an aggregate of my families blogs. fun fun.
The sites follow a pretty simple [...]

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So Hiromi and I are all married up now. Exciting. It was a weird and bureaucracy filled trip these last couple months and it all culminated with an excellent trip to Tokyo with my dad and Hiromi and us getting hitched.
So, apparently, attempting to get a visa to the U.S. is a bunch of work. [...]

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So i am going to tokyo on thursday to visit hiromi. I am really excited and quite happy. hiromi and i have been dating for quite awhile and will be getting married on the 29th of august in Yamanashi. I am quite excited. I have kept this quiet – because well… it wasn’t totally official [...]

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So this weekend was awesome. Kile and my mother flew in on thursday and we met up for dinner. They went to cirque du soliel and i went to juggling. Then on friday – i picked up my cousin kile at his hotel and we went to my work. He caused trouble and played xbox. [...]

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