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Archive for September, 2005

The Far Side

I was reading the Far Side last night before I went to bed. . . well, I mean I was already in bed when I read it in bed but I read it before I went to sleep.
Anyway, I was reading some of the cartoons that were made in the 70s-80s-90s (I don’t really know […]

Arc Welding

I’m wanting to make the shamisen but before that, it’d be a good idea to finish the banjo so that’s what we did. We are almost in the skin stretching stage but we have to make the metal ring first. We had these 1/2″ long and 1/4″ in diameter metal tubes
We made a copy […]

Shamisen Workshop

Last week, Kevin (my shamisen teacher) told me that there was a workshop gonna happen with Ryo Hagiwara and Pierre (sounds French) Ono. They are some famous players in Tokyo. Anyway, so I decided to go and a week later, I did. I brought my shirt that makes me look five years older (so […]

Field Day

So, the time came for the UCSC O.P.E.R.S Field Day. Thing where all the “arts” classes showed there stuff. Since the Karate class sure needs some students, we decided to do a little thing.
So, when we got there, we had a hard time finding our table. We were wandering around all the wierdos but couldn’t […]

Smells

Today, I was doing something in room A. A lady we know comes into room B and I can smell her scent (perfume) from all across the room! I mean for being smelly, I’m one to talk but let me tell you that it is not right to be able to smell somebody from across […]