SKI

It cannot come to early. I find September for the most part hot. October is when I start to get happy.

Thanks for the fun vids - looking forward to hearing more of your new places.

The Skiing Lawyer - do you have 2kyu already or just going for the top one? Anyone else have any of those?

I like this quote about Pink Floyd "They look like senior partners in a firm of chartered accountants, but 24 years after they last shared a stage, they sound fantastic."

Quote: Boots: Had nothing but problems with off the shelf ones, so splurged out and got custom moulded jobs ... mmm, just like slippers! Definitely, it's a must. I remember my first pair of boots, they were really screwing me feet up now. My feet hated me back then, they're much happier now.

I quite like it, got some decent long runs right from the top to bottom. Not too busy either. (Not good for snowboarder though)

I used to have a Rossignol thing going on when I was younger. Nowadays I've given up on that (wasn't as keen on them in recent years) but pretty much stick to brands that have good reputations.

Has that area of Niigata always had trouble with floods? You really would think that they could do something about that situation... sadly it will probably involve lots of concrete.

That sure was quick, we're you getting ove excited that you might have 'caught me out' or something? Almost like someone else we know.... Do you understand this >>

They should come up with helpful camera recognising machines that alert us of speed cameras in the same way there are those police finder radars. I'll be sure to slow down next time I see an elephant at the side of the road though.

I'd love to touch some snow right now........

Was just sent a link by a friend with some speed skiing records up to 99 on there http://skiinghistory.org/Speed.html

I'll be out of Japan in September this year, will have to sweat out August.

I'm a resident. It gets taken from my salary.

Once shoes have been aff/infected, even if you wash them they soon get bad again. In my experience anyway. You put smelly shoes in with your clothes wash Plucky?

I have been going to bed really early recently since the winter season is over. Sometimes as early as 9pm. Getting tons of sleep and feeling really good because of it as well. Osusume!

A friend is going through the process of getting the per res - they told him to allow up to 6 months after submitting the documents for that one!

Well if you really think I was talking about you, by all means think that. Whatever. Ocean11, I think there are probably a fair few people who think you are the infantile one - just one who can use big "impressive" words and has enough time in a day to spend hours on forums writing essays. Anyway, I'm retiring from this, I'm sure other people aren't interested at all. You will probably want to post another witty remark, go ahead...

Someone brought some cool omiyage back from Hokkaido the other week in the shape of skis. I can't remember exactly where they were from, I'll see if the box is still there. Nice they were too.

I can't recall mentioning any specific names actually. Never mind, some people must just be paranoid.

Thats nothing to complain about - happy for you, I wasn't quite so lucky

Yes, I forgot to add in my post. So here goes. You of course need to write a very long grammatically correct essay (and don't even dare to post any spellling mistakes) in order for certain people to even begin considering your thoughts. And then they will no doubt be completely rejected if they are not the same. You do make me laugh - do keep it up.

You shouldn't be that surprised rach. I agree with what you and davo are saying. Let's just hope they take the focus off all the unfortunate party/bowling/golf story and concentrate on the really important things and find out exactly what happened. Alas, some people seem quite incapable of looking beyond themselves and also seem totally unable to accept the opinion of other people when it differs with their own.

When I first came here I got the Yomiuri. Recently neither, the internet does far better.

Every month different, depends on those nights out. Probably less than 5000 yen on a normal month.