trv

So, I was at a client yesterday that had an issue with their iChat video connection not connecting. The problem was that with iChat, you have to have certain ports open in your firewall, namely:
5060, 5190, 5220, 5222, 5223, 5297, 5298, 5353, 5678, 16384-16403

So I had to go into their router and let these ports through the firewall. If you have an advanced hardware firewall, or use a software firewall, you can specify a certain app (in this case iChat) to let connections through the firewall, but otherwise you have to stick to the flipping on ports.

昨日、お客様はiChatビデオチャットができなかった。問題はiChatがつかられるのことでファイアワールからいろいろなポートが開けなくちゃ。そのポートは：
5060, 5190, 5220, 5222, 5223, 5297, 5298, 5353, 5678, 16384-16403

そして、ルーターでそのポートを開けた。アドバンスのファイアワールやソフトウェアファイアワールを使う人は一つのプログラム（例えば、iChat）だけでファイアワールアクセスをあげられるけど、一般人はそのポートの開けるのができる。

（わあ！日本語がちょっと書きにくい。。。だんだんがんばります！）

Are any of you on the Steam network? Or on Xbox Live?

If so, add me as a friend! I am jumex on Steam (and Audiosurf, which I enjoy greatly) and trevmex on Xbox Live.

See you,
trv

みんなさん、誰かスチームネットワークでいますか？XBOXライブのだ？

それたら、そのネットワークで僕を友達になろう！スチームで「jumex」という名前だ。スチームで「Audiosurf」というゲームが好きだ。あとで、XBOXライブで「ｔtrevmex」という名前がある。

じゃあね、
トレヴ

I was working from home today. Thank goodness. That was the only way they could get in touch with me.

This afternoon, a police man knocked on my door and delivered me a message on a pink slip announcing that my father had died in San Jose, CA. The slip had a number on it of a police woman in San Jose. When I called, I was told that my dad died in an apartment fire on Sunday.

Here is the link to a news article on it: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9310539?source=rss

A 4-alarm fire. Wow. I am still in shock. I currently live in Philadelphia, PA on the other side of the USA. I am taking a plane to San Jose, CA tomorrow to get the process started.

I think I will have a memorial service in CA, one in WA (where many of the relatives live), and one to bury him in NE with my mom (15 years passed) and brother (who died at age 3).

Anyway, there it is. I am parentless. It is quite a shocker, let me tell you. I guess you are never really prepared, huh?

今日、家から働きました。良かった。ほかのところでその人は僕と会えません。

午後で、警官が来た。警官はピンク色の紙があげました。その紙で「サンノゼでトレバーのお父さんが亡くなりました」というメセージが書いた。びっくりした。もちろん、びっくりした。紙で、電話番語があった。電話しました。電話していた警官は日曜日でアパー火事で亡くなりました。

英語の新聞で新聞記事は：http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9310539?source=rss

大火事。ワウ。ショック。今、米国の東浜のフィラデルフィアに住んでいる。父が米国の西浜のカリフォルニアにあります。そして、明日、飛行機でいてきます。

三つの供養をします。カリフォルニアでの、ワシントン州での、と父のふるさとのネブラスカ州でのです。ネブラスカ州は僕の母（１５年前なくなった）とお兄さん（３歳で亡くなった）の埋葬地であるところ。

さて、それはそうです。両親が両方帰りました。今もショック。とにかく、がんばります！

This is a test (LJ).

Last time I was unemployed was around 5 years ago. I vaguely recall not liking the feeling in the least, but when you are in a position like that, what can you do save work hard to find a job.

I returned from four years in Japan to Philadelphia around five months ago, and now the startup I am working for is dissolving. It seems that we just are not making enough money for my bosses to want to continue.

Fortunately, one of the founders of the company is a good friend, and intends to help me find work elsewhere in Philly doing IT consulting or the sort.

So I have touched up my resume and am putting it out there for all to see. If anyone has any tips, leads, or words of hope, they would be accepted happily.

最後の仕事がないときは約５年前。そのとき、気持ちが悪かったけど、そのことが出るとき、ガマンしなければならないね。新しい仕事を探しなくちゃ。

５ヶ月前、日本から帰国した。今、働いてる会社が亡くなる。会長はあまりお金がないので辞めたい。

運がいいから、会長は僕のいい友達。そして、フィラデルフィア市内で新しいコンピュター仕事の探すのは手伝うつもりだ。

それから、私の履歴書をもう一回書いてあげました。もしかして、アドバイスや仕事やいいアイデアがあれば、絶対聞きますよ！

仕事をGET！がんばります！

後１週間だけ、僕らの日本の生活が終わります。この４年間はすごい早いで過ごしました。かえるのがとっても寂しいですけど、フィラデルフィア市ですぐに新しい生活を始まりたい。友達と一緒に３人だけがいるパソコン会社を作る。そして、成功かどうか分からないので、緊張します。でも、社長になる友達はすごい自信があるから、大丈夫と感じます。
フィラデルフィア市に行く前で、２週間ぐらい、家族と会うつもりです。前回の米国に帰るときは３年前なので、アメリカの変化したことについて緊張します。例えば、シグたん（妻）と一緒にダイエットに１年間前から２０キロ以上やせた。でも、最近のニュースレポートは６６パーセントの米国人は体重多いや、２０１５年で７５パーセント以上は体重多くなるでしょう。ヤバ〜イ。ダイエットを続いてがんばります。でも。。。＾＾；
( English Version )

Hello all and welcome once again to the Trev Report. Wherein you shall find many a tidbit about the life and goings on of Trevor R. Lalish-Menagh, your humble author. As of late my wife, Signe Rose Lalish-Menagh, and I have been preparing for our grand departure from the land of the rising sun after a four-year stint as English teachers. In little more than a month we will be on a plane heading back to our country of birth and a new future. It has been a long three years since my last visit to the continental United States, and I have to admit I am both nervous and thrilled about my impending homecoming.
But now, without further adieu, on with the report.

Trev's Love Life
( Read more... )
Trev's ALT Work
( Read more... )
Trev's Computer Work
( Read more... )
Trev and Signe's Diet
( Read more... )
Trev's Studies
( Read more... )
Trev's Books
( Read more... )
_Voyagers_ by Ben Bova( Read more... )
_The Kite Runner_ by Khaled Hosseini( Read more... )
_The Stolen Child_ by Keith Donohue( Read more... )
_Hubris_ by Michael Isikoff and David Corn( Read more... )
That is about it for this installment of the Trev Report. I hope you have enjoyed reading it. I have left out some sections, and I hope that interested parties will, if sections are missed, email me personally and request them added. I will be happy to oblige.
Until next time, I hope you are well, and if you have some free time I would love to hear from you through email, phone, or whatever forms of communication you luxuriate in employing.

Yours,
trv
--
Trevor Lalish-Menagh | The mediocre teacher tells.
jumex@trevreport.org | The good teacher explains.
www.trevreport.org | The superior teacher demonstrates.
+81 (80) 1929-5216 | The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward

Hello all and welcome once again to the Trev Report, available online [http://www.trevreport.org/tTRArchives.shtml]. If you are not part of the Trev Report mailing list, please take a moment to sign up by sending an email to trevreport-subscribe@topica.com.
Many big events have happened in the interval since our last correspondence. I hope here to illuminate you on at least a few of these as well as some of the more trivial details as well. So sit back and enjoy, for you are about to enter the Trev Report:

Trev's Love Life( Read more... )
Trev's Work( Read more... )
Trev's Career Change( Read more... )
Trev and Signe's Diet( Read more... )
Trev's Traffic Accident( Read more... )
Trev's Studies( Read more... )
Trev's Books( Read more... )
Trev's Comics( Read more... )
Trev's Games( Read more... )
Trev's TV( Read more... )
I had about four more sections planned out for this edition, but they are all pretty unimportant, like what movies we have watched lately, etc. So I thought I would spare you the details and send this report off.
I am looking forward to getting your reactions to our big move. We are looking forward to going back to America and starting a new life there. Drop me a line if you have a spare moment.

Take care,
trv

ねえ、ねえ！知ってる？僕の一番好きなアニメ、高橋留美子の「めぞん一刻」、はテレビドラマになってる！ホムページはhttp://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ikkokukan/です。スペシルドラマというので、もしかして２時間ぐらいの番組かも。皆のめそん一刻オタクは前のリブアクションドラマ、何１０年前、がすごくまずいが、今度のはほんとにいいと希望する。キャストの中で、有名な女優が入った。例えば、音無響子は電車男のドラマの伊東美咲。後で、響子と五代の娘、春香、はちびまる子ちゃんスペシルドラマ（まるまるちびまる子ちゃんじゃなくて）の森迫永依など。５月１２日（土）夜９時が出る。とても見たい！

Hey, hey! Have you heard? My favorite anime of all time, Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku, is being made into a TV Drama! The web site is at http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ikkokukan/. It is being called a special drama, so it will probably be a 2 hour affair. As most Maison Ikkoku otaku know, the last attempt at a live action drama, about 10 years ago, was a total failure, but I am hoping that this time it will be good. There are a lot of famous actresses in the cast. For example, Kyoko Otonashi is being played by Misaki Ito from the 2005 Densha Otoko TV Drama, and Haruka, the Godai's little girl, is being played by Ei Morisako from the Chibi Maruko-chan TV Specials (not the currently running Drama, Maru Maru Chibi Maruko-chan, that is a different actress). It premiers on Sat. May 5th at 9 PM. I reallly want to watch it!

Welcome to the Trev Report. This is a letter about the goings on
of the life and times of Trevor Lalish-Menagh. Trevor currently lives in a
two-story house in the small mountain town of Iinan in Shimane Prefecture,
Japan about two hours north of Hiroshima City by car. The town's
population is about 6,500 people and Trevor has been living there for over
three years with his wife Signe Rose. Signe has recently taken over an
assistant language teaching (ALT) position at the local elementary and
junior high school that Trevor had held for the past three years. In turn,
Trevor has started employment with a private ALT company, called ALTIA
Central, in neighboring Miyoshi City across the border in Hiroshima
Prefecture, a bustling metropolis of 30,000. There he works at two
elementary schools and two junior high schools motivating children to
learn English in a country still adverse to the foreign tongue.
We enter this life shortly after the winter vacation of the year
of our Lord two-thousand and six, which Trevor and Signe spent in
communist Vietnam aiding a charity group called Ethnic Minority Outreach,
distributing food and supplies to the much ignored minority groups
throughout the Vietnamese coastline. What follows is a brief account of
this experience in the author's own words followed by other assorted
facts about Trevor in the months since his last correspondence.
And now, without further adieu, on with the report!

Trev and Signe's Trip to Vietnam
( Read more... )
Trev's Work
( Read more... )
Trev's Books
( Read more... )
Trev's Comic Books and Games
( Read more... )
Trev's TV Consumption
( Read more... )
Trev and Signe's Diet
( Read more... )
Trev's Studies (or lack there of)
( Read more... )
Trev's Computers
( Read more... )
Trev's Love Life
( Read more... )
Trev's One Point Japanese Lesson
( Read more... )

Well, that is about it for this edition of the Trev Report. If you have a
chance, send me an email, instant message, or call. I always like hearing
from you. Until next time, take care.

Yours,
trv
--
Trevor Lalish-Menagh
jumex@trevreport.org
www.trevreport.org
+81 (80) 1929-5216

Have fun listening and learning with Trev!!!

Listen to the the podcast for "Too much Japanese!".

Also check out the podcast for the Trev Report for May.

Have fun listening and learning with Trev!!!

Listen to the the podcast for "Stomach Flu".

Also check out the podcast for the Trev Report for May.