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Looking Towards the Long Term
Things are slowly starting to settle for me with the new job. Some really nice things are coming up that ought to help put into place my long term goals. But the major point for me is that I’m really looking to ease up and just find a nice rhythm as opposed to working at…
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Why Los Angeles/California Is Utterly Retarded When It Comes to the Workplace
Los Angeles/California is perhaps one of the most frustrating places to live when it comes to tech. Here, we have one of the largest growing and existing tech centers in the world. Yet there’s a lot of nonsensical problems mired by resistance in ancient managerial culture that plagues this state and city.
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Getting Older
So here passes yet another uneventful birthday. Perhaps, I could describe it as one of the worst birthdays in memory. That’s because most birthdays for me are as memorable as the plots and characters from the vast majority of stale Hollywood movies. I never really celebrate that often and don’t make a big deal of…
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Health: Little By Little
Since starting on my smoothie journey, I have to admit to becoming 100% addicted to it. Right now, I need to have a smoothie every day. I try to make one in the morning or at least after lunch. That provides a fair amount of energy and I can drink it throughout the day. Usually,…
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Giving Healthier Lifestyle Blogging A Try
My attempt at a slightly healthier lifestyle. Babysteps A photo posted by Keith Watanabe (@keithyw1975) on May 10, 2016 at 8:57pm PDT The last few days I’ve slowly been doing small things to have a healthier lifestyle. It’s no secret that I’m someone who has trouble maintaining himself when it comes to staying on course…
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Trying to Find Balance in My Life
As an engineer living in a city with fairly bad public transportation and an ever increasing expense situation, I find it difficult to maintain myself as years pass. These days there’s little to no protection for employees in truth and the economy has become unstable. So if you get a project that causes you to…
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The Voyage of Pluto, New Horizons and A Lifetime Goal
When I was in the 5th grade, I became immensely interested in astronomy. I saw some recorded program on PBS which featured our solar system. The images of all the planets and mysteries of these worlds intrigued me into wanting more knowledge on the subject. I would find books at home that covered the subject…
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YouTube: Normally Attached Girlfriend Lulz
[embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/15YU7nG” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/F6Ca1j-h9H0?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=F6Ca1j-h9H0&width=640&height=388&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep2239″ /] I love this video dearly. It hits the nail on the head about relationships in so many ways that it feels almost realistic in some ways. But let me start off by talking about the (in)famous girl in the video, Laina. I stumbled across her picture numerous…
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How I Should Have Never Left Japan in the First Place
Only in retrospect can we clearly see. And at this point, I finally see the whole picture. My whole picture. What I should have done in the first place. And that thing is not leaving the first time. Back when my dad had his stroke, I panicked. I feared for him. But honestly, the damage…