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As some of you know, my Dad died on January 15, 2010. He had been sick for a while and we were expecting it, but that expectation doesn’t reduce the shock and sense of loss when, inevitably, the news comes.

To all the folks that have expressed their condolences via Facebook, email, and other ways thank you. They mean more than you know and are greatly appreciated.

We have created a temporary memorial site. The site has a longer obituary that probably won’t run in newspapers, information on the Funeral, and will have information on a Memorial Service in Cleveland. Please check it out.

Memorial Website URL: http://www.edhawkins.info

The site has a page to leave messages that we’ll be collating. The current web site is temporary and for immediate use. However, my siblings and I have decided to build a more permanent memorial website to honor my Dad. We’ll be collecting and organizing his writings, photos, movies as well as wider family histories into the site. Just based on what I have, it will be a pretty impressive site from a volume of content perspective.

In fact, the effort to categorize and convert the content for web use will be fairly intense. We are fully aware that we’ll not be able to do this in one fell swoop, but will have to do it over an extended period of time. The good thing about that is that it’s a great way for us to keep Dad in our thoughts and remember all the good things he meant to us, and to the world.

The current design is okay, but certainly nothing to write home about. That’s not surprising since I did it. I hope to engage a real web designer for the permanent memorial site. Dad deserves a better looking site than I can do.

It’ll also be a collaborative effort amongst us siblings at least, but I hope to get some of my Dad’s siblings to contribute stories, information, etc. They know a whole side of my Dad of which we, his kids, are completely ignorant.

Of course, we are spread out across the country and each have our own lives to live. So we’ll be using some online services like Google sites to help reduce duplication of effort, share information and tasks. I must say I am looking forward to working with my siblings to make this happen. My Dad deserves a nice memorial site, and I am honored to be a part of building it.

Last night, Mom took us out to celebrate Arisa’s birthday.  We went to Umami Asian Kitchen in Chagrin Falls.

The menu says that Umami is the “fifth taste”, as in sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.  Umami is a Japanese word.  See the wikipedia article for a description.  Also see the “basic tastes” article too.

I see why they call it Asian Kitchen as it’s not really a Japanese restaurant.  They take some Japanese foods and make it all their own.  For example, they have an Udon Noodle dish, but it’s not what one would expect from a Japanese restaurant.  It was really very good.  We had Seared Red Tuna, Spicy Tuna Rolls, and Calamari.  I had the halibut with sweet potatoes and ginger, Arisa had one of the specials which was scallops (hotate) on Jasmine rice.  Ken had the Seared Salmon, and George had the curry chicken entree.  Elly had Calamari and Assorted Sushi appetizers as her entree.  Mom had crabcakes.  I tried everything except the crabcakes and it all was very, very good.

Oh, and Chagrin Falls looks great at night.  The whole town is decorated in Christmas Lights.  If you get a chance, I’d check it out.

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I really enjoyed this video. I vaguely remember being confused by Japanese addresses when I first got to Japan, but my focus at the time was learning how they do it. I never really thought about this in depth, but their addressing is definitely different from the U.S. The following post, entitled Japanese Addresses and other opposites, by Derek Sivers. It’s well done.

As you can see, it’s not really about Japanese Addresses per se, but rather how differing viewpoints, even opposite viewpoints, can be both true and valid.

oooooo, deep!

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このあいだ、エリー、ケン、ジョージがクリーブランド日本語補修校で行われた漢字検定試験を受けた。水曜日にその結果が届きました。 なんと、３人とも合格。

Thanks to this post, even*cleveland: the snowman, a small trip down memory lane.

While I wasn’t 6 or 7 like Stephanie over at even cleveland, I did watch it with my kids, and it quickly became a favorite of mine. We bought the book and had the dvd. Neither of which made it with us when we moved to the U.S.

Thanks for the reminder, Stephanie

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