First Post

This is the first post.
When Blogs first started becoming news I thought "There's already enough garbage on the web; Blogs may be fine for other people but I'm not going to contribute to the problem."

Anyway, here I am. I'm an American living in Japan and in my job I talk to Japanese people all day. The other day at work I thought it might be good to keep a record from an outside perspective of what they think, say and do.

I don't think this Blog will change anyone's opinion of who to vote for and so on. I just hope that someday it serves as a record of ordinary life, a little in the way that diaries during wartime have.