So for those not keeping up with my blog...I just flew back from a ten day trip in Calgary/Montana. I'll recount the whole trip over the next few days (as soon as I get pics from other people on the trip). We spent 3 days in Calgary with Ted's family, drove 9 hours to a ski lodge Ted owns in Montana stayed there 5 days, then drove back for 2 more days in Calgary. To get you accustomed to the people in the trip, I've made short introductions of each person on the trip. Note: I'll put pictures of everyone once [View Full Entry]

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For those of you too lazy to read shit in the heading, I've put almost all my entries private (due to various reasons)...just email or subscribe and ill get you on the list of people who can check out all my shitty writing. ----- In this edition of Spring Training, I will formally introduce the pitchers (pitchers and catchers reported for spring training in the MLB last week, so this seems like the perfect time). Note, none of these are starting pitchers, they all happen to fall under four categories: prospects, failed prospects, retirees and notable pitchers who've helped me in [View Full Entry]

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Spring is around the corner! And guess what that means…spring training! After an amazing summer, I crashed and burned down the summer homestretch to find myself out of playoff contention. However, though I did ultimately collapse on the surface, dig deeper and you realize I got a loaded farm system with crazy prospects. So this is the championship year, fellows. Last summer of university, and I gots to make it count. To get you up to speed from when I came back from Japan: After easily the best summer of my life, I was looking at another cold (literally and figuratively) [View Full Entry]

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If you have not read the previous entry, read it now. this part of the story is good enough, but it's better to understand the beginning of the night. -- So I'm standing in my undershirt and cap (and nothing else, let me remind you), in front of my door. No keys. No wallet. No cellphone. But I do have my watch so I know its 6:00. Fuck. I can't just ring the doorbell either. "Hey grandma, just need to crash after walking naked through Tokyo." Fuck fuck fuck FUCK! Then I realize something. The balcony. I go to the end [View Full Entry]

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This blog has morphed from "keep up to date with Gen's Japan trip" to "Let Gen tell you some of the most fucked up shit that occurred in Japan". My next story I mentioned briefly in a previous post. It is again, highly unbelievable, so take from it what you want...but if you trust me, it is entirely non-fiction. This was my during my first week in Japan. I met two of my cousins in Shimbashi (a huge hub station in Tokyo), and as usual when I meet Japanese people, we decided to go drinking. We're at my cousin's house, and [View Full Entry]

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I will now tell you one of the craziest stories of my life. It would be the craziest if I could remember the details, but because of crazy levels of alcohol, it will reside somewhere in the top 3. In July, I took a one week tour throughout Japan. I went from Hokkaido (the most northern part of Japan) to Kagoshima (the most southern part) on trains. Everyday, I would take the train and visit a new city. I looked at temples and monuments, hiked around random places and ate amazing food. I stayed at youth hostels, family friends' houses and [View Full Entry]

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Every blog has one emo entry (if you want my usual stuff, skip ahead a few paragraphs): The main regret is not coming face to face with love-pretending I didn't like her and using that as an excuse to go after (and succeed with) multiple women. Even though I am a tender, naive teenager, I think I have a certain grasp on love-having had my heart broken before-but I just have a stronger grasp on lust. I'm tired of the random fucking now...I want a long term relationship. As I've told many people, I want to marry at a really young [View Full Entry]

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My mornings have been routine 1. Get up at 6:30 or 7am depending on how crazy the night before was 2. Shower, breakfast, take 7:40 or 7:43 tokaido with shitloads of other salarymen crushed in 3. Get to tokyo around 8:10 4. chill with other interns until 8:30 5. Get to my desk (Aiden: "Did you bang a chick last night?", Dave: "What crazy shit did you do last night?") 6. Work However, a couple of days ago, my usual routine was shattered. I woke up as usual, 7am (excessive craziness at shibuya making me awake later). Ate breakfast, showered, dragged [View Full Entry]

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Friday After work friday, my fellow co-workers decided to get me drunk as kind of a welcome party type thing (Japs love excuses to get drunk). I basically got free drinks from 5:30 and talked with two people, my fellow co-worker shin and another guy from a different dept, shouji. These two are polar opposites: one is a reserved, quiet Japanese guy and the other is a loud, obnoxious american (think me in about 20 years). But both were really entertaining to talk to when the atmosphere was filled with drunken workers. At 9:30 I sloshed my way to tokyo station [View Full Entry]

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"You talk about banging women and getting drunk. Therefore you are not gay." In order to add a little more variety, I will talk about a really bizarre (and funny) occurrence at work. On tuesday night, I decided to do an all nighter with my cousin's as we drank, drank, drank and then did some karaoke (my first time). Because I was with family, I had no pressure of scoring and it was a very relaxing change of pace. However, Wednesday morning I was seriously regretting my choice as I basically stumbled into work. I was crashing hard, almost passing out [View Full Entry]

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