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Kinda odd

Well things are kinda odd as of late. I've been wanting to ride but it's been either too cold or it's been raining. So I really haven't been able to do much for external exercising. So not doing too good on that front, but I have been keeping up with indoor walking anyway, when my watch beeps at me that I haven't been moving enough, so that's better then nothing. But on another front I'm getting a loom stand for my loom in a few months so I can FINALLY get back into weaving, and on the front I'm actually thinking about moving a few things around on the bike stuff so I can get a smaller dent heddle for my loom. The size of the dent on the heddle will allow me to use smaller threads to make finer cloth then what I'm able to do right now. What I have now is a 7.5 dent heddle so that means that I can mainly use thicker threads like worsted wait yarns and the like but what I want to get is a 12.5 dent heddle 'cause with that I can use some threads that are along the line of lace threads which will really open up what I can do. And when I get the new heddle I'm also going to get a few pickup sticks because that alone will drastically increase what I can do.

Things on the health front

Well in about a week I'm going to get the last two things that I need to be able to get started on my exercise regiment. My trike and my smart watch. Allot of people are more then likely curious about why I'm getting a smart watch. It's the Vivo active smart watch from Garmin. The sole purpose of this smart watch is to monitor a persons activity levels and make sure that they are keeping up on their exercise as well as track what they are doing via a pedometer and/or a GPS. Those are the main reasons that I wanted to get it, that way I could track how many calories that I'm burning per day as well as what routes that I'm taking when I go out bike riding so I can get the data from that. Later on I'm going to get a heart rate monitor strap that I can link up with the smart watch so I can get even more data about how I'm doing on my rides or walked around the zoo and whatnot. What I'm going to start doing is at the beginning of each week I'm going to take a weight and body measurements to I can track how I'm doing throughout the whole time that I'm exercising. I'm so anxious about this, well good anxious lol, but I can't wait I'll post pics when I get everything.

こんにちは

こんばんは。よろしくおねがいします、JRです。わたしはアメリカにすんでいます。

This is just me just trying out what I know of Japanese language right now. I know things aren’t perfect but I just wanted to see how well I could do and so far it looks pretty good. The statements from the title to the end are as follows.

Konichiwa

konbanwa. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. JR desu. Watashi wa america ni sunde imasu.

Greetings

Good evening. Nice to meet you. I am JR. I am from America.

I am pretty damn sure that there are some mistakes in there, but that’s the point of learning. I just wanted to see how well I could do if anyone likes what I put let me know if you don’t, let me know what I could do better. If you are going to be a dick then just leave.

#japanese language #learning #mistakes

A long time coming

There are allot of things in the US that really don’t make sense and it’s been a long time coming for the comeuppance. One thing that the US is doing, and allot of people would jump straight to the government being the sole culprit on this one but sadly that isn’t the case. One thing that seems to be happening on a frequent basis, is that when a persons isn’t capable of making payments on something due to having to send payments to something else to avoid reprisal from them you are in turn punished by either one or both of them.

I have been noticing it to be more frequent as of late are things like the government seizing a persons bank accounts, home, car and possibly more due to the fact that the person hadn’t made the appropriate payments on their taxes. But they don’t realize that they are keeping the person from what they need for their basic points of survival, and also taking away their capability of making future payments due to the fact that they can’t make it to work anymore.

Banks do this as well, no matter if they are working for a realty firm, or an automotive firm, they will in-turn deter you from being able to make the needed payments via taking away your one way of making future payments to them by taking away your capability to make said payments in the future. This is partially due to the fact that we have made ourselves into a country that is nothing more then a bought society.

The whole of american society is based on nothing more then greed and gluttony. We have made it more and more convenient to attain high fat and sugar foods then it is for the healthy alternatives. We have made it easier to by things with plastic credit that has no ascertainable value due to the fact that it is in constant flux of what the value of physical currency is and what the current value is of the interest that is on your current chosen piece of plastic that you are carrying around with you. We are all living on nothing more then bought time.

I know that there are allot of you out there reading this that are going to be saying/thinking something along the lines of “well there are other countries that are out there that are doing the same things if not worse”, I won’t deny that fact and I never intended to, but there is one big difference here, I only know hearsay about other countries just as you do. Unless you have lived in those other places for an extended period of time you can’t say that you TRULY know them. All you can say is what you have heard. And when I say extended period I am talking at least twenty years.

The US has gotten so bloated that people like Trump are able to have lost billions and still maintain a life of luxury due to underhanded tactics. Or people like the owner of Papa Johns who make it to where there employees are not able to make a living wage but the owner himself is living like the royal houses of England. And the reprisal that he has gotten is pathetic at best.

It is so sad that our country puts people like them upon a pedestal and makes them into kings while they destroy this country.

Things are still moving foreword still YAY!

I made a really good bento 弁当 for my wife yesterday, and apparently it came out.....really good. Sorry I couldn't think of any other way to put it lol. But all in all things are moving foreword in most ways around here, for some reason I'm dealing allot better when it comes to dealing with my sons noisiness. I can't really hold anything against him for it because he's autistic, but for some reason it was pissing me off to no end and there was seemingly no end to it. But now I can deal with it but now I'm doing allot better with it. The drawings for the diorama layouts are coming along nicely, I am currently taking a small sabbatical from it because I just wanted to step back from it and let my brain decompress a little bit. We are slowly closing in on me getting the trike so I can start riding again and this time I'm going to make sure that it can't be stolen, I am so fed up with losing bikes, out of the eight or so bikes that I've had all but one of them have been stolen, so I'm not letting that happen with this one. Especially since the assholes that are running #WillimasburgofCincinnati don't give a shit about a $200 bike being stolen from someone's house . But that's all for now, talk to all of you later.

Feeling like things are moving forward again

For the longest time I’ve felt like things have been stagnant with me, not because of any external force, but due to myself. I put up with so much pain when I was younger that I had to shut down my emotions, that was really the only way that I could escape without doing what my asshole of a dad would say would be a “cop-out” things like self injury and suicide is what he was referring to. The funny thing about that is that I had known about suicide thanks to my sister trying to commit it thanks to that asshole. But self injury I didn’t know about for quite some time after I got thrown out of my parents house.

But due to all of the pain that my family had shown/put upon me, and all of the pain that had been put upon me at school, I mean I literally couldn’t escape from the torture. There was no end to it, so what did I do, the only thing that I was “allowed” to do, shut down completely. Now some 20+ or - years later I meet my wife and things start to change for me right off the bat. It scared the hell out of me, I didn’t know what to do, I was.........happy O.o what do I do.....stupid me I shut down again -.-

But even though I came close to losing her several times due to my own stupidity, she kept by me. At first I stayed because she needed someone and there was also this little thing that was going on with me aside from the “her making me happy” that I couldn’t get and it was the fact that I cared about her. I couldn’t pin why, all I knew was that I cared about her and I didn’t want her to either be harmed or bring harm to herself. I was curious about what was happening to me. But as time passed this feeling of “caring grew and grew”, I helped her, she helped me it was a good thing for awhile.

But what I didn’t notice is that she was a crafty little minx, or should I say kitten since she’s a leo “shrugs shoulders” either way she’s crafty and she knows it lol. But she was slowly whittling down the wall that I had built up so carefully to keep me safe from emotional harm, and just recently all the work that she has been doing has been paying off. I am just now noticing things are changing.

I’m starting to pick up where I was wanting to be when I was younger, I’m becoming ambitious again, I’m caring about others again and I’m starting to remember care about my actions again. It’s quite the peculiar feeling for a person like me. All in all there is no one else that I can thank other then my wonderful wife. Without her, I would be no one. Thank you my dear, I hope that I’ve been there for you as much as you have been for me and I will continue to be there from now till the end of time.

I am so pissed right now

To all of my followers I’m sorry that I’ve been ranting so much lately but there has just been allot of frustration in my life right now and this is the best way that I can take it out without hurting anyone.

Like today for example, there is this idiot on FB that has been harassing me about (well not really, but I keep getting mentioned by him from time to time) some bullshit that he mentioned and I contested and I just want to bash his head in with a city block just to try and knock the stupid out of him. I mean seriously I want to hurt this guy so bad right now!!!!!!!!

That’s all I wanted to get out, again sorry.

This is really frustrating

It is annoying as hell that some companies “claim” that they have good customer service and a fair number of their customer base will attest to this and yet when you personally deal with them, their service is lackluster to say the best.

I have a ROBO 3D printer from a company of the same name. Late in 2014 the heated bed went kapoots on me and I was just recently able to get a new one. Well I got it and there were no instructions on how to wire it up, its like they were expecting me to know what to do when the wire hookups on this new bed are nothing like the bed that I got with it. So I contact them and I also contact the user forum about the issue. The forum was a bust there were 16 people that looked at it and no responses. Robo actually gets back to me about an hour or so after I contacted them they just sent me a pic of the circuit board that had a few areas highlighted showing what goes where, and the message was it goes at X spot if this helps let me know and that’s it. Oh and also I had to attack the magnets to the bed that keep the bed attached to the sled, they should have done that already to be honest.

Now that I have it hooked up I try to get the printer working. The hot end (the area where the plastic comes out) heats up just fine so I kill it, but the bed isn’t heating up now. So I go back to the forums about the issue and the best that someone can come up with is that I need to get the power resistance in the wires that lead to the heated bed, I saw this when I was crawling the forums at the time and I had seen a rather large list of issues that it could have been, so I start trying those, and I had noticed that some of the wiring was loose from its connectors, so I tighten those down and it STARTS heating up. Now it won’t go past 25c. This is really pissing me off. I am going to use this one with this heated bed disabled since I don’t really need it with the PLA that I use apparently. But it’s just the fact that they don’t have good customer service, I mean they are spot on on speed of reply but when it comes to actually dealing with the problem (‘cause this isn’t the first issue I’ve had with the printer) or any problem really, really SUCKS. It’s like they just don’t care.

Just need to keep this up

Today was a good day, I was able to keep up on the things that I am supposed to be doing around the house. I am proud of myself, I’m not the most dependable person on somethings lol, and I am trying to turn that around.

Today was the first day of this and I’m proud of the fact that I started out on the right foot, I just need to keep the momentum going, that’s always the hard part. The way that I’m starting out is just with small steps, I’m making a daily checklist of things that I need to do and since I am also trying to learn Japanese I’m also mixing in some Japanese when I can. But my goal is to work through this list daily and get myself to the point to where I can get everything done that I need to get done with no issues.

For a person like me that’s not going to be an easy task but I’m dedicated to get it done no matter what.

Can’t believe some people

This is just a vent so don’t worry I’m not trying to be mean I’m just pissed

I can’t believe this asshole on FB, there was a post stating that “on the first day that the 2nd amendment is taken away, it will be the first day of the second US revolution”. Personally I fully agree with this, because there are allot of gun users that will literally protect their weapons till they are killed. I know that there will be a shit ton of friendly fire and people getting killed because they were there or they said something wrong to the wrong person, it isn’t going to be pretty and I want nothing to do with it.

But I had stated that I agreed and that when that happens I don’t want to be here ‘cause I don’t want to get caught in the crossfire, it was meant to be truthful and a joke at the same time. You know, no harm done kind of situation. But this stupid ass fucking constitutionalist asshole decides to reply to my post saying that I should head to Canada with all of the other draft dodgers. I mean seriously this stupid fucker that decides to follow the masses that have their heads up their asses due to the fact that they like to distort the facts to make their pre-chosen point stick, and not to mention doesn’t even FUCKING KNOW ME decides to think that he can put me down for no fucking reason at all.

Seriously I’ve dealt with some bad trolls but this guy was on a whole new level. Why the fuck would someone serious take all this time out of their day to just make an asshole post like that on someone else’s post just to ruffle some feathers. That tells me that they have no life at all.

Sorry for the interruption this was a rant, only a rant, we will now continue with your regularly scheduled blogs later on today, thank you for your patience.

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Self discipline

This is one of the hardest things that one can do in the entire world. I mean literally it is. There are people that can say “I’m going to do X activity today” and they are able to get up and do it with no issues and then there are others that say the same thing and then when it comes time to do they are able to do it a few times and then after that they find it harder and harder to continue.

I have lost count of how many times I’ve heard people say things in response to this that are along the lines of “oh you just need to apply yourself more. The thing is, is that for the majority of people it isn’t the fact that they can’t apply themselves enough or that they don’t have enough self discipline, it’s the fact that there are so many things going on either in their heads or in their real lives that it is causing distractions to the point of them needing to keep moving on and they get lost.

The whole point to this is that I am so frustrated with the fact that I can’t seem to just sit down and study my Japanese like I want to because there are ten million things going on in my head and then there are tons of things stressing me out in the real world and it seems un-ending. I really don’t know what to do, I keep trying out new things and they don’t work, ways of study that used to work for me back in my school days don’t work anymore and everything else that I try is just making things worse, I really don’t know what to do anymore and it is really depressing.

Can’t wait to get started

I can’t wait to get started on bettering myself next year. Allot of you are going to see that and ask “why can’t you get started now?” Well the thing is, is that I can’t get started now because I don’t have what I need to get started till early next year, so think before you ask........... But seriously, early next year IE once it warms up, I’m going to start riding every day or every other day if I can’t ride that particular day, I will be getting a recumbent trike from terra trike. I am going to start by riding around the complex for two weeks to get used to riding the trike ‘cause I’ve never ridden one before (well long distances anyway lol), but once I get used to riding it I will start taking longer rides and covering more distance. Firstly I will start heading to our local library and then finishing up my usual loop which I will do for two weeks and then I will start heading out to a nearby Mc Donald’s (which is a fair distance away). And then once I get used to that I’m going to start doing some serious riding to places like Tri-County mall and the like so I can do some shopping for the house without using any gas.

While I am doing this I will also be heading to our local grocery store to do shopping there for somethings that we need that are things you really shouldn’t use a car for because I mean come on it’s a fucking gallon of milk. I have already taken one step to being a healthier person by drinking fresh juice from time to time and that is doing well for me.

I am also going to start working on what I need to learn to be able to make my yokai models and dioramas, and working on my Japanese with help from my wife I hope. But that’s all I’ve got for now.

#Terra Trike #recumbent #Trike #Exercise #Alessa Lenard #Juicing #Bettering myself

So many ideas

The thing that drives me nuts about this idea of moving to Japan more then anything else, is that I had just come up with some ideas on how to make money here in the US since I don’t “work well with others” so to speak lol.

I am just not the kind of person that deals with other people on a constant basis very well. It’s not like I’m going to lash out at them or anything, it’s because I just can’t handle being around people and doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again. I had figured mainly on doing handmade and machined items and selling them from time to time and on a website like etsy.com or something like that, to try and bring in some money but not too much to where I will be being demanded to do it to the point to where it loses it’s appeal and I want to stop doing it.

But since we are heading to Japan that is pretty much a bust idea since houses in Japan are smaller and I won’t have the space to setup a full workshop, I might be able to do somethings but not others, so I am having to alter my way of thinking about what to do. and one idea that I had come up with was to make small figurines (which are really popular in Japan) and small dioramas of Japanese yokai 世じゃい, basically Japanese ghosts and deamons and the like. They will mainly be targeted at tourists but I will be selling to all people. Some of them will be ones that are known for protection and others will be known for just being odd. For instance Tenjoname 天井滑, it’s name means “the ceiling licker” this is just an example of how odd yokai can get. The diorama of this one would be a small room with the yoaki being lifted up to the ceiling with it’s tongue extended and licking the ceiling.

I don’t know how well that these are going to sell, since I will only be selling a local festivals and the like but they will all be hand made and I am also considering selling them as kits but I am still thinking about that part.

Another thing that is making me actually worried is about our son. His autism is going to be a serious hindrance in Japan. Honestly I don’t think that he will be able to adapt at all because they don’t have the things that he eats out there and there is also the language barrier among other things.

Un-American....And why I’m leaving the US

What does it really mean to be “un-American”, according to definition to be un-american 1. not in accordance with the aims, ideals, customs, etc, of the US 2. against the interests of the US. And it is also a person that takes actions that can be seen as treasonous to the US government.

The thing is, is that about 90% + or - a little of the US population falls under this umbrella terminology. Either because they are perceived as being “non conforming” IE they don’t follow the majority religion, or they fall under the ideologies of being goth or something else like in some cases being deaf or disabled. It is truly pathetic, some people even see themselves as being so high that even if someone follows all the requested/required protocols to become an American citizen but because they fall under a certain ethnic or religious umbrella they trigger a hot button which makes them “un-american” even if they either have no association to or themselves despise the group that they are being associated with. It is weakness shrouded with money and fear.

This country was founded on all of us accepting each other, and yet we can’t even seem to get that right. There are so many things that I see in the US that are things that we shouldn’t be getting uptight about but we are and I can’t handle it anymore. I know that there are going to be countless numbers of people out there that are going to be saying things like “well don’t let the border hit you on the way out” and “if you are so un-american what the hell are you doing here in the first place?” Ok firstly here is the thing, I am american by birth nothing can change that at all, secondly people like that are more un-american then I could ever be even if I tried.

I stand up for what this country was founded on. Acceptance of all, no matter what their religion is or isn’t, no matter what they look like. It all comes down to what they do to others IE how they treat others. There was a video that I saw a few months ago that keeps playing through my head and honestly it is one of the things that is fueling my current rage at this country (there are allot of thing just in case you couldn’t guess lol) it showed some people on a motorcycle flying an american flag upsidown, and then they are accosted and nearly attacked by a group of marines, which was then followed by the crowd cheering them on. Firstly flying the flag upsidown isn’t illegal, you are legally allowed to do it as long as you perceive the country to be in a state of danger. Secondly those marines weren't doing what they “claim” that they are doing. The US military is supposed to be protecting us from both foreign and domestic threats not attacking citizens for utilizing their first amendment rights. And thirdly those people that cheered on the marines for their terrible actions WTF is wrong with this damn country.

Another thing that is wrong is that there are people that are trying to take the presidency are doing so for reasons of control and nothing else so that they can push their views on the rest of the country and not be able to be taken down because they have too much power.

These are just a few reasons as to why I am leaving the US, I am being called un-american just because I don’t think like all of these other brainwashed religious zealots and that makes me an outcast. Not to mention the fact that the doctors in this country are so blinded by money that they don’t even want to deal with someone that is on government medical insurance, I have a back problem that should have been taken care of years ago but all of my doctors won’t do anything about it because it isn’t financially beneficial to them. So when my wife and I head to Japan I am going to ditch my citizenship in this shithole and I am going to become a Japanese citizen, I know that things aren’t going to be all sunshine and flowers over there I am expecting some issues but nothing compared to the bullshit that happens here.

All in all, I just want to be somewhere, where people care about and respect each other not treat each other like shit just because there is some stupid un-perceivable difference about them that you don’t like for some stupid reason. That’s all for now, if I offended you I am sorry but at the same time I’m not this time around.

#Japan #Un-American #Moving #Citizenship #Bullying

Thinking about another type of chanel

Instead of doing the DIY channel that I was thinking about doing I am thinking about doing a channel dedicated to learning how to adapt to another country if you are planning on moving there. IE what one would do to get themselves set up for lessening the culture shock along with being able to assimilate into the country that they are choosing to head into as easily as possible.

The thing that brought this idea up is the fact that my wife and I are planning on heading to Japan to live there, we have it set up to where I am going to become a Japanese citizen and giving up my US citizenship because there is nothing that is tying me here, and that her and our autistic son keep their American citizenship because that way she can head back to the US to see her family when she chooses and also our son can come back to the US when we are no longer able to take care of him and he can be taken care of in a place that specializes in taking care of autistic adults.

The primary basis of the show, I guess you could say lol would be covering ways to get yourself to learn the language of your chosen country, how to adapt yourself to the foods that you will find in your new country. And once we get to Japan I will give you ways that you can learn to assimilate into the new people that you will be living with but at the same time keep your native lands ways if you so chose. From time to time I will see if I can get details from some of my wife's relatives that have moved from their native lands to the US to see what difficulties that they went through to kinda give our viewers a heads up about it from their point of view.

The main reason that I want to do this is because it will help to motivate me on keeping myself going with the things that I need to keep going. The other reason is because I have seen allot of videos about traveling and moving to other countries that only deal with after you have moved there but nothing about what to do before you move there and if they do it’s only something about what you need/should do before you head out there it’s just little tidbits of things. Nothing is about how to immerse yourself as much as you can before you can actually head over to the other country.

Because there are so many things that need to be covered that are simple that people don’t think about. Like immersing yourself in the language to a point to where it becomes completely innate and you don’t even need to think about how do I say rolled egg omelette in Japanese which is tamagoyaki たまごやき or how about apple リンゴ. These are just a few examples in Japanese but they are very valid. Once you get these kinds of things down it will be allot easier for you to be able to acclimate.

I’m sorry if I repeated things allot it’s just that I’ve got many ideas about this going through my head at the moment and some ideas are colliding but that’s all that I’ve got for now.

#Moving #Japan #Learning #ばか　外人さん #Fun

Oh boy.......

Things have been a bit nuts to say the least, during the week of thannksgiving I was sick once and then followed up by another bout of illness that I would prefer to not get into the details of on here or anywhere to be specific for personal reasons, but just as I’m recovering last week my wife comes down with a respiratory virus and then just this week she is starting to shows signs of recovery from it, but no I’m sick with something respiratory I don’t think it’s the same thing that she had but our son is also sick with it as well, so it like what the hell lol.

But on the good side of things the toys that I ordered for our son are almost all here, two more are showing up tomorrow we’ve got four of them here and wrapped up now and then he will be getting two more in the mail tomorrow followed by the last one showing up sometime next week. As for us I ordered us a juicer last week that is showing up tomorrow so we can start a healthier way of life.

When it comes to juicing I don’t believe all of the hype that is out there about the whole antioxidants and hyper healthy way of eating, basically I’m not going to be getting on to the juice diet bandwagon, I’ve just always loved fruit juices and I prefer it when they are fresh as opposed to pre-made, I just think that they taste better. But there are some things that I am going to try and see how I feel about them physically ‘cause my body reacts in strange ways to new things sometimes odd but good, but sometimes they react bad, to say the least, and when I say bad I mean don’t come near the bathroom bad lol.

But I am trying to set things on a better path for the family in the way that I can since I can’t work I do my best to help in anyway I can. Sometimes it is hard on me due to the way that I mentally deal with things but I do my best to do what I can.

#toys #juicer #sickness

A few things that are bugging me

I know that this is supposed to be a time of happiness, but there are just a few things that are bugging me. The big one for me is something that allot of people wouldn't even think twice about, it's the fact that there are tons of christmas cookie recipes out there and 99% of them take pre made cookie mixes. I mean seriously WTF is so hard about making some damn cookies, follow the recipe and it's hard to get it wrong. The things that people screw up on are stupid little things that an amateur that is trying to jump into the deep end of the pool would make, it's not that hard at all. The other thing that is getting to me is something that is more pissing me off then bugging me, it's the fact that people, especially those who think that christmas is a holiday that is all about them and that causes them to forget the roots of their own religion and the fact that almost everything that they celebrate is stolen from other religions from the past. Christmas is a holiday for every person of every religion, it is a holiday about giving not about receiving, it's about showing how much you love your friends and family not about the birth of someone that never existed. It literally pains me to see people practically killing each other in the name of greed and selfishness. during a time of togetherness I mean seriously. When I was a kid back in the '80s people would at least act civil around this time of year no and days it's an all out blood bath just to save 50 cents on a fucking TV that you are getting for yourself and then spending full price for a piece of garbage for someone that you are supposed to care about, and then the recipient just throws away the thing that you got them a few days later because either they didn't want it or it's now broken. What the hell has happened to society ? When did we start thinking that this is a way to live, it isn't, we need to slow down stop caring about the financial end of things and start thinking about others. Trust me if you do just one nice thing for a single person that you don't know as a friend of family member each day and they do the same and so on just those single actions will compound to a point to where things will turn around, but I doubt that something like that will happen because people are too damn selfish now and days. I'm sorry for that I just needed to get that off of my chest, now I'm off to find something to eat 'cause I'm hungry.

#christmas #family #celebrating #gifts #caring

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