At 12:24am local time here in Nagoya, I felt my first quake... Here. I grew up in Los Angeles, so I KNOW what bad quakes feel like, along with small tremors. This was a small tremor. about a 2.3 on the Richter Scale. I live near the 2nd dot to the east of the X for refrence. (The X of course being the epicenter.) So I was sitting here chatting with my sis-in-law on GTalk and I felt something like a heavy truck or train was passing the building along with a low rumble noise that got worse over 10 seconds, then suddenly cut off. Even though there are workers outside working on building a new elevated highway in the median of my street outside and there's noise, there's no sensation way up here on the 6th floor-- and my senses just told me "that's a damn quake man." Yeah, but a damn small one. If I were asleep (and I SHOULD be) I wouldn't have woken up. But still, another milestone passed here in Nippon...
This is an experiment of sorts to try to tie together my online identity and my offline personality. I've made plenty of business oriented sites, but I have never actually put together one for myself personally... With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace along with blog sites like Blogger and Twitter, I find that I have cut a wide swath here in the internet, in terms of being actively online, but there isn't one place to really tie that information together. So this will be an attempt at doing so.