culturemash

Done are the days where I have care free moments reading through piles and piles of fun Google Reader joy. Now I’m merely updating you people on the happenings of my quasi-exciting (in that lame and aging way) life that I’ve got with me and my mutt.
Work is ever impending, requiring that I throw not […]

You know, I hate to blame my lack of activity on work, but I’m going to blame it the after effect of work on my brain and body.
I travel, I do meetings, I set up more meetings , and I process things for future meetings. Then I come home the next day, load […]

Ahhh, jetlag … can anything be any more useless in life? On my second day back from German, I crashed out at 8pm and woke up at 5am. I am officially on my grandmother’s schedule.
Stuttgart was an amazing city, highlights including the land of Porsche and Mercedes … and naturally, all things German like beer. […]

I’m not bothering apologizing for a lack of blogs lately. Mainly, because I think you should have gotten used to this by now. But secondly, because I’ve just never figured out how to make my FlipCam work with the latest version of QuickTime on this Mac. So whatever… moving on!
I’m going to Stuttgart, Germany in […]

Well, we’re winding down our last few days here in Tokyo. Today, we actually get a free day and are spending it with David’s good friend Hiroko, a Tokyo native and her Finnish fiance, Juha.
The past couple of days have been busy at the Big Sight convention center at Tokyo Bay. We were presenting at […]

I know, I know. I skipped a day. But come on, I gotta leave a little mystery. Otherwise you’d never call.
So I’m way too exhausted to do any real writing or thinking. But here’s a video of me playing Rock Paper Scissors , or Jan Ken Po as they call it here, with our […]

What can I say, it’s been a really interesting trip thus far. Yesterday, David and I had to meet with our resellers to do some work for our upcoming meetings this week, but from about 5pm on we had the night to ourselves.
In trying to get to them, we learned a few “fun facts” about […]

Tokyo Arrival from Leyla Tirgari on Vimeo.

Ok, taking off for Japan tomorrow to visit the clients we have there and participate in a few things. Mainly, I’ll be attending TAF 2008. Never been to an anime festival in my life, but hey … first time for everything.
Sorry for the scattered and rare postings. It’s been naturally chaotic pulling together the right […]

I’m beginning to do a lot of learning about the Japanese culture lately. Obviously, this is mostly in preparation for my trip to Tokyo, but also because I want to learn like I always do about cultures I know little about. Never mind that I did actually take a full semester in the language and […]