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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!

When you want an excuse to give up.

Sounds good to me too, Kobe to Tokyo is a bit far ')

Love it

Great idea them email updates. I dont have to keep on checking every 10 minutes to see if they've been updated.

Great move. Maybe we'll see less of those hilarious "fun" handles

That's what lessons are about isn't it? From what I've heard Shiga Kogen is a particular fave for the organised mass lessons too. Just how many people do they teach at the same time anyways?

Apart from Kobe, of course.. We went down to Hiroshima last weekend, and what a wonderful place it was. We had a great time there it left a real impression on us.

I'll be lucky to fit in 10 weekends I reckon

Not favorite, but as well as renting the dire Cube, also watched Boogie Nights for the first time. Very entertained. (Although anything would be entertaining after Cube).

Cube, rented it out on video over the w-end. It drove me nuts.