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This month brings you the tale of the office chair. Please try to contain your excitement. 今月、 オフィスチェアーのすごい話があります。落ち着いて聞いてください。 The King on His Throne When I lived in Japan, I often hung out between classes in manga cafes. At a manga cafe, you could rent an office-style cubical with a PC and reclining chair, in which… Continue reading May 2018 – I Sit Around →

This month I bring you a public service announcement about you and your smart phone. 今月、あなたとスマホのために公共広告を流しています. Factory Reset Hell In the middle of this month, I accidentally (long story) changed and immediately forgot my smart phone’s password. After many failed attempts at guessing the password, my phone performed a factory reset and I lost nearly… Continue reading April 2018 – Back Up Your Phone, People! →

Undeterred by the terrible Ohio weather in the beginning of Spring, I trekked northward to hang out with friends, eat too much, and see Chick Corea and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. 春の始めの天気が悪いのに友達を訪ねてたくさん食べて、Chick CoreaとJazz at Lincoln Center Orchestraを楽しみに北の方へ車で行きました。 Jazzy Easter At the end of the month I drove up to Michigan for a long… Continue reading March 2018 – Eldrich Jazz →

This month I have some photos of a cabinet I painted for my Mom. I may not be skilled but I work really cheap! 今月ははに塗てあげたタンスの写真があります。 私は上手じゃないでも料金がありません。 One for the Antiques Roadshow Early in February, my Mom bought an old cabinet and painted it entirely yellow. Then she asked me to paint some blue roses on… Continue reading February 2018 – Blue Rose of Ohio →

It is 2018 and I am ready to talk about stuff that mostly happened last year. Not a good start! Read on for more doodles and details about my Japanese practice. 2018年になったけど去年の物について話しています. 始めがよくないです. もっと絵と私の日本語の練習について読んでください. The Doodling Continues Here are the latest Doodle Jams between me and Merc007. The sillyness will continue into 2018 if I… Continue reading January 2018 – Yammering Away →

December is the month for getting loot and in this month’s blog entry I got some good loot to talk about. 十二月はプレゼントの月ですね. この更新は私がもらったいいプレゼントについて書きました. Switch It On Again I’ve had many game consoles in my life but I have never really been interested in Nintendo products. I prefer to buy the most powerful computer equipment I… Continue reading December 2017 – Switch On →

This November, I created a brand new version of bradweier.com (which I detailed last month), took a long vacation, and fought with my PC. この十一月新しいbradweier.comのバージョン(このについて先月書いた)を作って長く休んでPCと戦いました. Goodbye Linux Headaches, Hello Windows Headaches I have been using Linux (Ubuntu) for more than a decade and, for the most part, enjoyed it. My biggest gripe with Linux is… Continue reading November 2017 – Hello Windows My Old Friend →

This is my blog entry for October and i am supposed to write about October things. However, I am going to cheat a little. I am going to steal some of November’s news and talk about the page you are looking at right now. これは十月のブログの更新で十月の事について書くはずです. でもちょっと騙しています. 十一月のニュースを少し盗んで今読んでいるページについて書いています. A New Page for a New Era For… Continue reading October 2017 – New BradWeier.com! →

September this year was pretty unpleasant. I spent a lot of time fighting with my landlord over a broken refrigerator. 今年の九月はちょっと大変でした. 壊れる冷蔵庫中心んに大屋をたくさんけんかしました. Spoilage Beginning in late August, my refrigerator began malfunctioning. It would go from somewhat cold to very warm in an unpredictable rhythm. ８月に冷蔵庫は誤動作を始めていました. 予測不能なパターンにちょっと冷たいから暖かくなっていました. I complained to my landlord for the entire month… Continue reading September 2017 – Data Blogger →

Nothing special happened in August, so I am blogging about a couple of drawings I did while avoiding the heat. 八月に特別な物が起こらなかったから私に描かれた絵について更新しています. <h2>Amateur Hour</h2> Recently, I have been enjoying a forum on Reddit called “DrawMe.”  For those unfamiliar, Reddit is a giant message board that has become very popular over the last five or so years. … Continue reading August 2017 – DrawMe →