What Earthquake??!!
OH, must've been when I passed gas in the Bullet Train that was going 300km/h (Don't know mph, you figure it was fast, though!!)!!!, while going to Disneyland!! (NO~T!!)
I'm ok, just waiting for a different earth-moving event...like getting the phone call I've been waiting for in regards to a job!!!
With North Korea throwing nuclear fallout in the air (not to be mistaken for falloutboygirl16!); City employees driving home drunk, killing an entire family; and looking for a job, I hadn't heard about the earthquake, nor had much time to post, at that matter.
Besides, after a heated argument last week with the wife, I had spent the entire week studying 5 to 6 hours a day of Japanese...just to catch up from the last year!!
As for the job, I went in today for a second interview, this time met the company president. The company is originally from Germany, but is now a Japanese company with counter-parts in the U.S., and I think they still have a connection with the company in Germany. Anyway, they don't seem to run like a Japanese company (for example, they have Saturdays off, and if you work on Saturday, the O.T. is time and a half!). Though I applied for an Electronics Engineer's job, they offered me a job to translate Japanese to English; English Technical Writing; as well as do an Ei-kai-wa (English Conversaion) lesson to the Japanese who are frequently exposed to English. The company president seemed to have spoken good English, however. I'll be a little dissapointed if I don't get the job...I'm counting the days when my unemployment is up...and so far it's calculated to one more week!! Then I got about two weeks to find a new source of income before that money is all 'bye-bye'! (Man, I hope my tax return is big this time!!)
Thanks for thinking of me, though!! I know when the Big One hit Kansai (Hanshin Earthquake) in 1995, my family was quite worried! And that one was RIGHT NEXT DOOR!
Thinking back...that was like a roller coaster ride I wanted to get off of in a hurry when the sixth floor apartment building wouldn't stop shaking at 5:45 in the morning!! You could imagine how I felt about the after-shocks, couldn't you??!!