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<\/a><\/p>\nI know I’ve mentioned in the past that I lived in Hokkaido for a brief period back in 2005 (when I was 19) for the summer, and I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that it was a “small town” and “in the middle of nowhere”. Anyone who’s known me long enough probably also knows that I usually describe that place in far more colorful terms, but let’s not dwell.<\/p>\n
I finally got around to looking through Google Maps and I found the place where I lived and worked in the summer of 2005! This is Tsurui-mura in Akan county in Hokkaido. When I say “middle of nowhere” I really do mean “middle of nowhere”. The town had about 1000 people in it, 1 grocery store and 2 convenience stores. I actually worked in another city 30 minutes away by car, but on the days I didn’t work (I worked 3-4 days a week), this is where I stayed. We had a tv that would turn on and off intermittently and a pay phone in the house. There was no Internet to speak of, so I used to ride an old, rusty bicycle 30 minutes to the library where they’d let me use an old PC with dial up internet access for half an hour. And then ride 30 minutes home.<\/p>\n
Looking back in how my life was back then, it’s funny how much–and how little–life changes in 6~ years.<\/p>\n
Anyway, finishing up my lunch break now (coffee for lunch..), so I should get back to work. Later this week, we get to start a new series of randomness:<\/p>\n
Let’s Read Jason!’s Mail<\/strong><\/p>\n Yep, I’ve been saving and photographing all the weird ads I get in the mail every day, and we’ll go through them together. Why? Because I have a blog, and I can<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n<\/p>\n I know I’ve mentioned in the past that I lived in Hokkaido for a brief period back in 2005 (when I was 19) for the summer, and I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that it was a “small town” and “in the middle of nowhere”. Anyone who’s known me long enough probably also knows that I usually describe that place in far more colorful terms, but let’s not dwell.<\/p>\n I finally got around to looking through Google Maps and I found the place where I lived and worked in the summer of 2005! This is Tsurui-mura in Akan . . . → Read More: Out in the wilderness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[64,65,62,36,63,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}