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My family dog back home died this last weekend.

Thanks for that, really cool for you to do it. I just saw your new website as well - very nice. But I saw on your news page that "the main resort at ARAI will close from September 1 through December 3" - so you'll be basically closed for all of fall months? Is that an annual thing that the resort does?

Sounds really good! Well done!

I have not yet sorted out the philosophical problems posed by the first two Terminator movies. Someone help me out hey? As you will probably remember, T1 saw a chap travelling back from the future to prevent Arnie from killing his mother before he was born. In T2, Arnie returns as a Mk II good robot saving the woman and child from Mk III evil robot sent back in time again to destroy mother and child. But what I don't understand is why the Mk III evil robot didn't travel a bit further back in time and help Arnie do his job in T1. What would have happened, incidentally, if the Arnie

Heard quite a few rumors that there will be a lot of closings.

...they would be jealous of all our food!

Call me mad, but I actually like the sounds of strong rain and wind when I'm all tucked up in bed. I hate rainy season though.

Bloke

No thanks!!

I always dread something bad happening at home to someone in my family and having to make rush arrangements, not being there, only being there for a week or so, etc etc. That happened to anyone here? Must be terrible....

Go TeamZ. SOunds awesome. Lots of us are jealous.

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Typically, what do all the winter staff do in the 6 months they're not at ARAI? Arubaito, dossing, farmers??

Smoking is one of the few things that I really hate about Japan. The 'non smoking sections' in many restaurants are just a joke.

Kobe Beef Bento... the ultimate in luxury bento! Tasty tasty, very very tasty, they're very tasty!