Oooo, this is a big typhoon! Well not really, when I first came to Japan everyone started talking about typhoons and really I didn’t think they are much bigger than the storms we have back home. But this morning I went out for a carton of milk and couldn’t stand up on the way back!…

So it’s my weekly day off again, and what happens??? Yes, it’s raining! This is beyond a joke now, basically everyday I’ve had off this Summer has rained! Today I had planned to go to the Space World Theme Park for a change, but it’s not that much fun in the rain! So in the…

I spent the entire day today backing up the GE data. It’s crazy the amount of data I produce! Plus everything has to be securely backed up and accessible, which can take a long time. So overall today I had two computers moving a couple of hundred gigs around. In the evening I went out…

First day back at computer work and I got a ton of stuff done!! One thing I’ve been working on is having photos of the gestures to all the songs on the site. Each song has it’s own online teaching video, but for people who come to the site for the first time I think…

Today was the last of the Summer Workshops for this year. In previous years August has been the fund raising month doing private shows and bookstores to fund the free school visits, but this year was the real thing with hours and hours of elementary school workshops. And it is really great because in the…

Back to Okayama again! Along with Fukuoka, Okayama has some of the best elementary school teachers in Japan. They are really genki and don’t need too much motivation talking, they’re already into it and are just wanting new ideas and techniques. Which was just as well today as there were so many teachers they split…