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We caught a train right after work and got into Iwaki at about 10pm. We arrived in Iwaki and met up with Brittney, dropped off our gear and then headed to meet the AEON teacher in Iwaki that Britt had tracked down and headed out for our very drunken night of karaoke.. All you can drink booze paired with singing until 3am can be dangerous. But it was one of the best nights I've had in a while. If anyone hasn't seen the videos, you seriously need to check that s*** out. It makes my life complete. We hit up the 7-11 for more booze, and took the party to my apartment. After a couple broken doors and the sunrising... we called it quits at about 6am.
The next day was completely full of laziness. We got up around 1pm. Headed over to the grocery store to buy the necessary items for making a hangover breakfast. My stomach hated me afterwards, but it was so good. We made pancakes, eggs, hash browns, with bananas, pineapple, and strawberries. YUM. We let that digest, watched some SNL and other comedians while freshening up. Then we decided to go for a walk, which lead us to stumbling across the bowling alley. We then bowled a couple of games, had fun scoring plenty of strikes and spares and took a while to warm up and then we grabbed some supper, and watched another movie and went to bed.
The next morning we headed to Hawaiians. Iwaki is famous for it's onsens and Hawaiians is a fairly big water park heated at a constant 28C with a swimming pool, water slides, steam rooms, and different types of onsens. I felt like I had gone home and the heat was beautiful, although I definately need to buy another swimsuit -- I have lost too much weight in Japan! But sitting in the pools and onsens and chatting for hours was great --- It was really relaxing. Almost too relaxing. I think we were all dead to the world by the end of it. We finished the night off with some delicious ramen and we caught the last train back home to Tsuchiura and headed home for a late night of chores for the week!
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Ronald Derek, you've put together a rellay great post here. Thanks for mentioning NanoReefBlog.com alongside the likes of Glassbox-design.com and Reefbuilders.comYou are right in that both GBD and RB are more like magazine sites than blogs, however GBD still center's around the Glassbox' 90g reef, making it more blog than mag, kind of like NRB. RB is a full blown community with their forums.I see each of these 3 sites sitting nicely in a niche at the moment. RB is very generalised, GBD leans more towards the design/modern side of the hobby and well, the nano arena is for NRB. At times certain things will overlap across all three sites and the other great blogs out there -it's just going to be a race to see who posts that breaking' story first, ha ha. I just wish we could all work together in the blogosphere and in turn further contribute to the growth and innovation of this hobby. If the webdesign community can work together, surely us reefers can do the same?As for forums been down that road too. I've seen a very small scene split down the middle and two forums born as a result. One thing to remember as markets saturate, competitive nature rears it's head, and those who won't/can't play ball get left behind and are forgotten.
Patrick Jake, Thanks for the response!(SIDE NOTE: Do I use a lot of putotuanicn or what?)I agree that Reefbuilders, GlassBox Design, and NanoReefBlog are different. I also think I am different from you (at least I hope so). I was not lumping you into the same category as forums. But, I disagree that forums and blogs are very similar. I think they are quite different. But, I also think they are a natural progression from forums. In forums, its about all people having an equal voice. In blogs there is a hierarchy. The blogger and those who comment. Also, blogs enable you to stand apart and stand on your own. Forums are not about individuals. You could never post again on ReefCentral and it will get along just fine. You stop posting on ReefBuilders and its gone. Forums are able sharing information with everyone having a voice. Its a dialogue. The dialogue exists but is muted in blogs. Both exist and thrive for different reasons. Finding out that Hydor is recalling heaters is a good example. I may never know that, even if it was stickied in a forum. It might just get lost. But, with the blog its front and center.