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    I need help for "JET LAG"

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    Wacky

    Long time no see. Hopefully I will be able to post pictures on my "myspace" site. I haven't been to the CG Fair for a couple of years, maybe we can meet there next year.Be careful with the wood stacking, I got a very serious injury during my WOW year doing that and had to have surgery when I returned home.

    www.myspace.com/rmdaigle

    I need help for "JET LAG"

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    OH, also, when you're in Kyoto, have yushaku (supper) at "Gonko" (the name means "Stubborn" - ). It's a tea house/Geisha house/restaurant that's been operating on that site since the Momoyama period (about 500 years now). The garden surrounding the place all dates from that era I'm told. Anyway, there's often a Maiko or Geiko playing the koto at the front entry, there's still private tea rooms in the back, and a very traditional menu (which is really not that unusual, but). It's not spectacular, but it is pretty neat, and gives you a real taste of what Tokogawa-period Japan must have been like.

    Oh, and also near Kyoto, is Byodoin (it's the building that's pictured on the back of the Japanese dime). It's easily the most beautiful building in Japan - REALLY...

    Where in Kyoto is GONKOlocated? My daughter is very interested in going there. How much does it run per person in price? We are not on a strict budget, we just don't want to be too surprised.

    We already have reservations somewhere in the city but I have no idea where. Also, we will be taking the high speed train there.

    Once I get to Japan I will use her computer to update.

    Thanks for the help

    Bob - The Onion Eater

    I need help for "JET LAG"

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    TWINKY

    I sent for some of the "Jet Ease" tablets, thanks.

    GEORGE

    Thanks for the tips. My daughter has been in Japan for 8 years now but she has only been to Kyoto once and just for a day. She speaks Japanese very well and is married to a Japanese so there won't be any problems getting around.

    I am sure it will be a culture shock being from a small town in the woods of Maine. I am told that my wife and I have to go to the nude hot spring baths in Beppu with her husbands family. That should be a highlight of the trip. Gee, I just can't wait for that one. Last time I went skinny dipping was with a TWIG party back in 1976.

    I need help for "JET LAG"

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    Anyone have any cures or ideas to help with JET LAG? I am heading to Japan on Nov.1 till the 21st. Have been taken pine bark extract and will take melatonin when I arrive. Any other suggestions will be appreciated.

    Leaving from Portland ME to Chicago then non-stop to Tokyo, connecting to Fukuoka in Southern Japan and then on to Oita where my daughter lives.

    Will be doing a lot of touring around the Island of Kyushu and spending 3 days in Kyoto.

    Swine Flu

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    I'm reminded of a quote from one of my heros:

    "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

    H.L. Mencken

    Sounds like the GWB administration to me.

    GreaseSpot Cafe

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    I found GS a month after it appeared on the web nine years ago after doing many searches for TWI info. over the years.

    My name changed three times here in the past nine years, the "unholy trinity" lol.

    A few years ago there was a lot of tension here and I was part of it but all was resolved and I wish it had never happened.

    Thanks for opening GS and keeping it running and putting up with a lot of BS.

    I haven't been around much in the past year because of an unfortunate comment to me by a moderator, I can't even remember who it was now.

    Congrats on the progress.

    The day the music died----

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    I was only nine when Buddy Holly died but my mom was young and into the music of the day and she always had the radio on. We listened to all the rockers of the 50's together. It was a fun time.

    I got to see the original "CRICKETS" last summer at a free concert at LL Beans in. Good tribute show.

    E.B. Stowe Painting

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    Hi, I would buy the painting if you're interested in selling.

    Thanks,

    Patty

    I am interested in selling it.

    We were planning on putting it on EBAY, that's why I was trying to find other paintings of his for sale.

    We brought it to SKINNERS in Boston and got a verbal appraisal on it so now we know its value.

    If you are serious about buying check your pm.

    E.B. Stowe Painting

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    I have a painting by E.B. Stowe signed and dated "78" and measures 24x36. Been searching the net for a year now and can only find an article about his death in Florida and one by a painter that mentioned she studied under him.

    I was told by an appraiser that it has value but no specific price was put on it.

    I was also told Stowe trained a few of the "Highwaymen" painters of Florida and they all paint in his style but with more vivid colors.

    Anyone know of him and have an idea where his paintings have been sold and for how much?

    A View From Space.

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    GREAT SHOW.

    A project that I am working on, hope to finish it by winter for my 8" Newtonian Reflector.

    Will keep all posted on progress if any are interested.

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