February 16, 2018

“Mike Jordan pedal to the floor and rubber is scorchin’ Olympic athletes carrying torches” – D. Gardener

Basketball Begins:

Basketball season has started up again and boy do I suck. Hurt my hip flexor and have a hard time running aggressively lately. I think it may be a small sports hernia. I typed the symptoms in on  WebMD and it says I have cancer. So either or I am screwed I guess.

On February 11, we had two games. First game went well and we easily won 71 – 22. We out sized the team greatly. Everyone on the team played well.

Q1: 14 – 10
Q2: 16 – 2
Q3: 27 – 5
Q4: 16 – 5

 

 

The second game proved to be much more difficult. This team was bigger and more rough. I think we underestimated them during the first half and had to get our head straightened out. We were able to come back after the half and pull out a win and the final score was 58 – 49.

Q1: 11 – 9
Q2: 12 – 23
Q3: 15 – 10
Q4: 20 – 7

I am about a year and half in to living in Japan and I decided to make a quick list of memories I probably will never forget.

• finding spider nest under my bed

• snake on my door step

• – hornet nest built on my laundry line
• – chased by boar
• – over 20km bike ride
• – wild dog watching
• – sleeping on beaches
• – winning basketball league
• – improving Japanese level
• – being over 20,000 words in on a novel
• – writing lots of poetry
• – continuing my research on Gary Snyder
• – meeting acquaintances of Gary Snyder in Japan
• – understand Ezra Pounds’ ABC of Reading
• – meditating on solo days
• – sometimes never speaking a word on most Sundays

Here’s to 2018.

[December 20, 2017]

Winter has come. <— Is this from The Game of Thrones? I haven’t seen it before but I here that winter seems to be a pretty important  quite a bit on that show.

Anyways, been a minute since I have posted anything here.

Updates: Life is still as quiet as it was when I first got here. Nothing really new and exciting has happened. Went home during the summer, but that’s family stuff I like to keep that close. New Years is coming and I will run up a mountain on New Years Day and spend Christmas Day at work studying and writing.