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Boring, yes, but that two or three year old stack of my columns is getting yellower by the day. I should do 10 a week or something. Put it on the calendar and do it. Otherwise it seems too big a job to even start.

Japan brought us Godzilla and manga and anime and “Shogun.” I like the idea of being in a place that is at once so entirely western in living style but completely foreign in language and every other way. Plus, a country with a baseball team called the Nippon Ham Fighters is a country which must be examined.

I keep saving clippings showing all the things I should store up and all the tools I should have on hand, and these clippings get glanced at in a pile every few months, yet I still have a hundred sharp and heavy objects up high on bookshelves ready to kill us at the slightest tremor. Well, at least the kitchen cupboards have baby locks on them to keep the dishes in. In theory.