The pay is decent and it could be a chance to make new contacts because the place of teaching is at an engineering company . Also , when I got home , Miyoko , a girl I used to go out with , had left a present in my mailbox . She left a new CD / DVD of a favorite Japanese singer of mine . CDs and DVDs are quite expensive here in Japan and this one was like $ 40 .

A: What may be the reason CDs and DVDs are expensive in Japan ?

Instead , it made it sound like Baptism was some sort of Spiritual Olympics . In anycase , now that I got that off my chest ... I can focus on my newly found time waster at work , craigslist . Indeed , it is like a little microcosm of the entire web .

A: What is the problem with this person 's work ethic ?

I ran up to the nearest house and mercifully the family was home , and even though I did n't know them personally , they were so helpful and so understanding . I had a cut on my knee , scrapes on my neck , and my jaw was bruised , but no damage more serious than that . I was tasting gravel and gasoline vapor for several hours after that , which was not nice .

A: What happened to me ?

Been a while since I blogged last , been really busy with life in general and still having lots of computer issues ... Not alot 's been happening on the scrappin front . I have 2 layouts I can share now but the rest ( sounds like alot but really it 's only 1 or 2 ! ) will have to wait until I ' ve got my scanner up and running again ... These are my most recent Stuck ? !

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Why do they need to wait to get their scanner up and running ?