{"id":730,"date":"2008-02-07T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T10:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-07\/730"},"modified":"2008-02-07T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T10:55:21","slug":"some-old-posts-from-when-we-moved-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-07\/730","title":{"rendered":"Some Old Posts From When We Moved to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>We moved to Japan in early April 2004, staying at Fumie's folks' place\nin Hirakata-city, an hour south of Kyoto. Fumie had arranged an apartment\nprior to arriving, so once we were over jet lag sufficiently to move, we\nstarted the process of building <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> life.<\/p>\n\n<p>This was prior to my having started <span class='nobr'>a blog,<\/span> but for the first couple of\nweeks <span class='nobr'>I kept<\/span> an &#8220;on-line diary&#8221;, half for my family in The States to read,\nand half for my own memory. <span class='nobr'>It apparently<\/span> didn't work well for the latter\ngoal, because <span class='nobr'>I forgot<\/span> about it until <span class='nobr'>I ran<\/span> across it today.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"\/i\/pic\/2004-04-21_19:38.09__00455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/pic\/2004-04-21_19:38:09__00455__2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\nid=\"i2004_04_21_19_38_09__00455__2\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/>\n18-Month-Old Anthony\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Unhappy With His New Boots<\/span>\n<br\/>A week after we moved to Kyoto<\/div>\n\n<p>For posterity, I've gone and injected these diary-like daily accounts\ninto my blog with the April 2004 dates appropriate to the days they cover. <span class='nobr'>It's pretty<\/span> boring reading, but those with insomnia may wish to peruse\nthem.<\/p>\n\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px; font-weight:bold'>Getting Settled In Japan:<\/p>\n<ul style='margin-left:1em; margin-top:5px'>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 12,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-12\/717\">Buying <span class='nobr'>a Fridge,<\/span> etc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 13,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-13\/718\">Cell Phones and Air Conditioners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 14,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-14\/719\">Washer\/Dryer and Microwave Oven<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 15,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-15\/720\">Moving Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 16,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-16\/721\">Alien Registration, Bicycles, etc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 17,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-17\/722\">Random Errands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 18,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-18\/723\">Lazy Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 19,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-19\/724\">Air-Conditioner Install<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 20,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-20\/725\">Nanzenji<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 23,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-23\/726\">Bike Ride and Furniture Shopping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 24,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-24\/727\">More Furniture Shopping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 25,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-25\/728\">Temples and Pink-Eye<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class='nobr'>April 26,<\/span> 2004: <a class='quiet' href=\"\/blog\/2004-04-26\/729\"><span class='nobr'>A Day<\/span> Off with Daycare<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We moved to Japan in early April 2004, staying at Fumie's folks' place in Hirakata-city, an hour south of Kyoto. Fumie had arranged an apartment prior to arriving, so once we were over jet lag sufficiently to move, we started the process of building a new life.<\/p> <p>This was prior to my having started a blog, but for the first couple of weeks I kept an \"on-line diary\", half for my family in The States to read, and half for my own memory. It apparently didn't work well for the latter goal, because I forgot about it until I ran [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}