http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php babblings! Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:01:22 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 shawn@graycastle.com shawn@graycastle.com en What a great weekend in Penticton - fantastic weather the whole time. Yesterday was BC day, making for a long weekend. Most of the action was at Penticton speedway with the races and concert they held up there - about 2,000 people for the concert on Sunday night. Sunday morning ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=242 I arrived in Vancouver via Portland, OR and the bro was there to pick me up. I got my application for my Canadian drivers’ license in at the local driver licensing office - it will be so nice to have that back since I lost my former one when my ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=241 Today was my last day as an employee of T-Systems, the German IT company in Tokyo I’ve been working for since April of last year. A few of us got together to swap some drinks and memories after work. For the most part, it was a positive experience, but its ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=240 Look at these two news stories from the BBC: 1) US man charged for shooting mower: A 56-year-old man from the Midwestern US state of Wisconsin has been arrested after shooting his lawn mower in his garden because it would not start. Keith Walendowski was charged by police in Milwaukee with ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=239 Click on the image for info, or check out this page: http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/intj/. http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=238 Wow, another 2 or 3 weeks have already gone by since the last blog update… busy, busy, busy me! Work has been a bit slack and boring the past couple of weeks, and I’ve spent a lot of time documenting in detail all of my tasks to make it easier ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=237 A rainy day in Tokyo bored I’d rather be on Facebook or making some greater contribution to Life In General I need a new blog and time to install one Shoulda done it yesterday Too many other things that also needed doing Is this a poem? That’s up to you http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=235 My Facebook account was deactivated today for sending too many Friend invites in too short a time. The warnings were being sent to my home email account, which I wasn’t checking at the time. I thought FB would simply put the brakes on me by refusing to allow me to ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=236 Saw this on Facebook and thought it was a good reminder to make the most of every minute to invest in the things that are truly important in life: As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will. You ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=234 Class started out tonight with a demonstration of one of the first techniques of Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu by N. Sensei. Soke then did his spin-off thing and soon had the full class in a state of confusion. Nothing unusual about tonight in that regard. We did a lot of work with ... http://www.shawngray.name/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=233