I have been employed long enough to finally begin scheduling vacation time. I will visit Japan this winter and Toledo this summer. In this entry I also talk about the end of a big project and bring you some more lonely gaming.
休暇の予定ができます. この冬に日本へ行って夏にToledoへ行きます. この記事中に大きい用事の終わりとさびしいいゲームもについて書きます.
Brad Will Vacation in Japan
At the end of May I was able to schedule my vacation days for 2016. I will spend virtually all of my days on a trip to Japan for about two weeks this winter. This schedule will allow me to attend my favorite show, the Tokyo Design Festa. I will try to nail down the exact dates by next month. I do not have an exact plan for what I will do, but I might try to sneak down to Kyoto for a few days while I am there. I can’t wait!
五月末に休暇の2016年の予定ができました. ほとんど冬に二週間の日本の旅行ができます. 東京デザインフェスタと言う一番好きなイベントに出席ができます. 来月に正確な日程を決めたいです.多分京都も訪ねます. 楽しい!
JimMattBradCon 2
One day of my vacation will be used for a three day weekend in July for JimMattBradCon 2. JimMattBradCon is a gathering of three friends of thirty-plus years who revel in the nostalgia of a weekend-long game of Dungeons and Dragons. We purposefully choose a dull location so we can focus on the game. The first JimMattBradCon took place in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2006. This year we chose Toledo, Ohio for its centrality and utter lack of anything to do.
七月に3連休の週末のために休暇を一日使います. JimMattBradCon 2です. JimMattBradConは三十年以上前初めに会った友達が三人の懇親会です. 3連休の週末中Dungeons and Dragonsと言うゲームをしています. ゲームがフォーカスしたいだからつまらない所を選んでいます. はじめのJimMattBradConは2004年にFort Wayne, Indianaに起こりました. 今年面白い物があまりないからToledo, Ohioを選びました.
My Scanner is Smoking
Back in March, I told you about a giant project I was working on to digitize a mess of old keepsakes and papers. That project turned out to be much larger than I anticipated and it ate up most of my free time from March until the very end of this month, when I finally finished. For the curious among you, here are a few of the things that now live solely as zeros and ones on my hard drives.
三月に大変な古い物をスキャンと写真を取る計画について更新しました. 思いより大変で五月末に自由時間を全部尽くしました. ハードドライブだけにある古い物の例えばです.
This pile of note cards and papers comprised all of the research I did for my Master’s thesis on Mark Twain.
このカードと紙はMark Twainについて修士論文の研究です.
Here is my favorite drawing of mine, completed in my last year in college.
これは大学生の四年生に完了した一番好きな自分の絵です.
Lonely Gaming 02
In my entry last June I talked about playing solo games due to my lack of a gaming group in Ohio. The game pictured below is called Castellion and I only recently heard about it.
去年の六月に独りで出来るゲームについて更新 しました. Ohioのゲームクラブがあまりないからそのようなゲームしています. その写真はCastellionというゲームです.
It is basically a puzzle game where you try to arrange tiles into specific patterns before the timer runs out. You know its a good puzzle game when, after losing once or twice, you obsess about beating it until you get another chance. So far, I have played the beginner and intermediate game and it has remained engaging.
つまりタイルを特別な柄に並べるパズルゲームです. 一二回失ったらまた遊びたくて勝ちたくなったからいいゲームと思います. 今まで初心者と中級のバージョン勝ったことがあります.
Photo Corner
This photo might only be funny if you lived in Japan.
この写真は日本に住んだことがあればおもしろいかもしれません。
