Slaybach comments

I worked six days a week my first six years in Japan and still went to Japanese class.

Yes I got tired but I did it. I quit going twice a week, since I was getting burned out, but continued to go once a week.

Went to the DMV in Yokohama by myself after four years to apply for the driver's license.

The driving license center is in Tsu, 10 minutes on food from a Kintetsu station. The written test is in English.

17 years in Japan? Got to try harder.

Maybe she would have to go to Tsu, then she could go to their Office. Maybe they have the test in English.

I remember having little money but taping albums on the radio, like Beatles Anthology 2 or a Counting Crows album or having the radio on and a cool song was on, I would tape it and make a cool compilation. I could tell what bands were the best if the tape broke, since I played it so much. You could share with others. I remember liking the Charlatans and lending my tape to a neighbor after I had taped one of their early singles in the early 90s. I was getting music for free, just paying for a blank tape.

I read that he outed Putin as gay along with two other things.

Obviously Putin has enriched himself but I forgot what the other thing he said was.

If he stayed in Germany I don't know what he would do or what visa he could get.

Russia kills people overseas so he probably thinks it does not matter where he lives.

I was ten. My teacher was sad that day. I asked him what was wrong. They shot John Lennon, he sighed.

In 2002 In August I was walking on Houston street in New York. There was a small woman between two tall men walking down the sidewalk in the other direction. The woman looked familiar but why I thought.

Oh it was Yoko Ono. Two bodyguards? It makes sense.

There was a government plan to have 9,000 beds in Tsukuba as an emergency hospital.

The government had a plan to do it, as it is close to Tokyo. Tokyo can't cope well now, and the patients must go somewhere.

If the Chinese can build hospitals in Wuhan, why can't it happen here?

Bury him in Arlington, Virginia