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Our unofficial official wedding party

So the other weekend, Hiromi and I went to colorado to celebrate our marriage with our friends and family. It was fun. It was a party a year in the waiting. We had a ton of friends come and had some really nice parties at my parents house. Only a little bit of mayhem and [...]

I know I know. I have been a bad bad blogger. I basically I have been ignoring the fact that I have a blog. For a long time – – pretty much since I got back from japan at the beginning of January. eep. What weird is that I have been playing computer a lot [...]

Going to Japan.

So I leave on Sunday to go visit Hiromi in Tokyo. I am excited. It will be my 3rd time visiting her this year and I will be there for 13 days! whooo. I will be spending most of my time in Tokyo (I think), but we will be traveling to Yamanashi to celebrate new years with [...]

Hiromi got her visa!

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 [...]

Marriage. TOKYO.

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. [...]

a couple things

First off – this is the most amazing music video i have ever seen. There is very little hyperbole in that statement. And since jacob has shown me that music video, i have been listening to muse like a madman. Such a funny video. Amazing.
Second – i made this website that aggregates hiromi and my [...]

today has been a lazy and rainy day.

Today we just hung around. We are going later to walk around where one of the BAPE stores are and just hang out. then to this awesome italian place in ginza.  I am happy we didn’t really do anything crazy today. Its nice to have a normal existance with hiromi again. No running around. No [...]

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whew.. almost all done..

So everything worked out and Hiromi and I were married on tuesday. It was really fun. and really barely more than signing a paper. which i liked quite a bit. Today we did the first part of the visa stuff. It was insane. and really crazy. totally stressful. government offices are annoying and really bureaucratic. [...]

Big Time!

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 [...]

So hiromi got here monday. it has been really fun.
On monday I picked her up and we hung out around my house. Went to our friend becca’s house and hung out.  It was fun. After that we went home – picked up chris – went to irazu and then went to the empty bottle to [...]

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

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