{"id":62,"date":"2008-07-25T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:23:02","slug":"sprucing-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Sprucing Things Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I haven’t posted anything in a while, and it’s because I’ve been extremely busy. I also haven’t been traveling much, other than to the beach and mountains, so I didn’t have anything interesting to add. Or if I did, I was just too busy to do it. But now I do have some things I want to post about, so I’ll start adding them soon.<\/p>\n

Some of the stuff I want to cover:<\/p>\n

I want to go into some detail about how I’ve been approaching my Japanese language study. It’s a non-traditional, non-standard method that has been working well for me so far, based on some techniques other<\/a> people<\/a> have discussed<\/a>, with modifications to suit my learning style, time, and pace. I figure I can also go through the uncomfortably large pile of Japanese language study books I’ve managed to acquire over the years, and share my opinions. (Whatever those are worth.)<\/p>\n

I figure I should also go into some better detail about traveling in Japan, although I think you can get a lot from the stuff I already wrote. For example, I can’t remember if I posted the whole list of trains I took, how much they cost, and how much I saved by using a Japan Rail Pass<\/a>. I also want to clean up some older posts and centralize links about things like getting train timetables<\/a>, hotels, maps, and the like.<\/p>\n

But first and foremost, I need to clean up the blog’s design a bit. I just sort of threw this thing together while I was traveling in Japan. I didn’t want to take time away from traveling to spend hours squinting at a computer screen, so the template is very… uhh… “retro,” I guess. Yeah, retro. (And I don’t like it like this.)<\/p>\n

So if the site acts a little odd, or looks a little odd, then it’s because I’m probably messing around with a template somewhere.<\/p>\n

To make up for the silence, a photo of the moon at Wrightsville Beach, NC:<\/p>\n

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