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the family arrives

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.08.19

Mari's family has come for a visit. They're here because Mari has a performance on the weekend.

I always enjoy having Mari's family around. The family members all seem to get along well, and everyone is supportive of Mari not only in things like her performance but in raising a child in a faraway city with some foreign husband. Hooray!

The went to a kids play room that has not only toys but a ball room and inflated air bouncing rooms and mechanic construction sets and a variety of other things. Kenny's cousin Ki-kun really enjoyed it.

I spent the day catching up with work things and had an interesting interview in the afternoon.

A fine day.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.