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Whew!  What a day!  My dogs are dog-tired, dog.  This rest is under the cut. Type your cut con­tents here. We took the JR (Japan Rail­way) train from Osaka sta­tion to Kyoto.   We grabbed the non-express, so the stu­dents got to see twelve smaller sta­tions along the route, along with hun­dreds of small rice fields. Many …

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We’re here, finally.  Our con­nec­tion out of Dulles was delayed due to mechan­i­cal prob­lems, but United held the flight to Osaka for us. I was amazed. It’s late here, and we’re headed to bed after a meal of cur­ried rice and pork, radish, and tea. Tomor­row, it Kyoto, where I’ll take pic­tures. ‘Til then.   …

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Five hours from now, I’ll begin the full day of travel it will take to get to Japan.  Along the way, I will ride in a car, a tram, a prop, a sub­way, a jet, another tram, another jet, a bus, a bul­let train, and then, I will walk two miles through thou­sands of peo­ple …

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This month’s Bill’s Best Books col­umn has been posted to the ALAN Online. Books Reviewed are: The Ghost In Allie’s Pool The Mid­dle Of Some­where Open Court Leav­ing Par­adise Girl Over­board Right Behind You Red Spikes True Tal­ents Harm­less Sammy Keyes And The Wild Things A Field Guide To High School Kat Got Your Tongue

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The Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel has a show I’m sure you’ve seen or heard about, Dead­liest Catch.  It’s a run­ning series about a fleet of real-life crab­bers work­ing the Bering Sea.  The money’s is fan­tas­tic, the weather is wretched, and the chances of fish­er­men dying are pretty high. Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel has another series, Lob­ster­men, about a group …

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Ty Cobb’s life­time bat­ting aver­age is .367.  In the world of agent queries, SOUL TACO, is bat­ting a cool .500, which means that out of the twelve agents who have responded to my equeries, six have requested fulls or par­tials.  I know bet­ter than to get excited by these early num­bers.  It’s still Spring train­ing …

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Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios has announced that it’s build­ing the world of Harry Pot­ter in Florida.  http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20731 Can you imag­ine what it would be like to walk down streets that once existed only in your mind?  To see street signs with names that you cre­ated?  To be hugged by a half-giant with a car­pet for a beard?  …

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