クリーブランドにアムトラック(電車)があった

この間、エリーが帰って来たと英語でブログしましたが、エリーがどう帰って来たと書かなかったです。実はエリーが電車で帰って来て、昨夜アメリカン大学に電車を使って戻りました。

というのは、エリーが帰って来ると楽しんでいたのであんまり帰って来る方法をあんまり気にしていなかったです。でも、昨夜に駅まで連れていた時に「そうか、電車があったのか」と気がついたのです。僕はクリーブランド生まれ・育ちですが、シェーカーハイツからダウンタウンまで、そしてターミナルタワーから空港までの電車以外に電車があるとあんまり意識したことがありません。いや、あるかと考えさえもしていなかったです。クリーブランド内の電車しかないとずっと思っていました。

駅の場所は以下です:

View Cleveland Amtrak Station in a larger map

 

駅で電車の写真を取ってみた。朝2時だったし、携帯電話で握ったので写真の品質がちょっと悪いかもしれないけど、雰囲気をつかめると思います。

 

エリーに曰く、この電車に寝室があります。それが必要でしょうね。だって、Washington D.Cまで13時間かかるわけです。

来週末に日本語能力試験を受けるため、チカゴ市に行ってきますが電車で行けるかもしれません。値段次第ですね。

Romeo

2010年感謝祭 - Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

今年の感謝祭は自宅でした。母はボストンに行っていますので、5人家族だけでした。特にエリーがワシントンDCのアメリカン大学にいってから始めて帰って来ていますので5人だけで楽しく過ごせました。

Welcome Back Home Elly

Elly arrived back home to Cleveland early on Wednesday morning having taken Amtrak from Union Station in Washington D.C. She was more than cheerful after a 13 hour train ride and still being awake at 4 in the morning.

グーグルアップ世界が広がる

先週ぐらいからグーグルアップの世界が広かっています。グーグルアップは独自ドメインでグーグルメールなどを利用するサービスですが、ビジネス、学校、政府、個人むけのサービスです。もともとはグーグルドック、グーグルメール、グーグルサイトなど六つぐらいの基本サービスに限定されていました。ピカサとかリーダーとか他のグーグルサービスを使いたかったら、グーグルアップと全く別のアカウントを作る必要がありました。先週木曜日（18日）にグーグルエントプライズブログでグーグルアップアカウントで使えるサービスが大幅に増えたと発表されました。６０以上のサービスを利用することになりました。

Browns Lose Another Close One

The Cleveland Browns just lost another close game to the Jaguars.
With a little over 2 minutes left in the game, Maurice Drew-Jones
breaks out for a huge gain, finally stopped by Joe Haden on the 1 yard
line. 20 seconds later the Jags went scored the game winningTD. Colt
and the Browns did an admirable job to in the final 1:40 to try and
score, but the Jags got an interception on a bobbled catch.

The thing that sucks about this game is the absolute inability to
generate any offense after five interceptions. That's five
interceptions and only one field goal out of it. True Phil Dawson
missed to FG attempts but they were both 50 yards or more.

My question for you experts out there is this - why was the offense so
anemic? Injury to Wolmak? No WRs? Did Ben Watson play at all in the
second half?

What happened?

PD Lack of Transparency or Just Dishonesty

I posted a few months ago on an article by Ted Diadiun, the "Reader Representative" for the Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com by extension. In that post, Ted is warning us all that we need to be wary of commenting and publishing online. Clearly the nuance of that column is to leave to the schooled professionals since they are aware of what they are doing.

In a separate article point out by Jill over at Writeslikeshetalks, we find Ted trying to take the high ground on ethics in context of the Keith Olberman donations to political campaigns. Even the title suggest the Plain Dealer has irreproachable ethics: Avoiding even a hint of bias: Ted Diadiun. But I like this quote:

The Plain Dealer, like most newspapers, has a list of ethical guidelines developed over the years:

Browns Lose Great Game

The Cleveland Browns lost last Sunday to fall to 3-6 on the season. And I'm good with it. Read this @ WFNY first.

Back? Okay, great.

I agree wholeheartedly with WFNY. While we lost the game, and made some mistakes, the Browns are fun to watch again. Would it have been nice to have Chansi take the safe, smart play and step out of bounds? Sure. But I will never complain about a fumble when someone is putting in extra effort. Disappointed to be sure, but the reason the Browns were in the game at all was all the extra effort going into it - except for that final play. That's the only play I found to be inexcusable at this level. The same thing goes for Peyton Hillis' fumble, Joe Haden's pick and the attempt to throw long near the end from the 3 yard line. All of these are effort at winning the game.

But most of all, I'm excited so far by the play of Colt McCoy. That under two-minute drive for a touchdown was a thing of beauty. I'm really looking forward to his development as the Browns quarterback. Can you imagine if he actually had a #1 WR how much this offense would open up. And I'm also looking forward to Hardesty if he can stay healthy. Can you imagine what our offense could be with two good running back and the superb fullback we have?

Can you imagine? Last year, I just wanted the games to end so I didn't have to watch - not sure why I did. This year though, I'm looking forward to the games which in and of itself is a massive improvement over last year.

And at this stage of the re-building, that's all I'll ask. In a year or two, if we are not in playoff contention then I'll get annoyed. But for now, I'm just enjoying the fact the Browns play competitive with the best teams in the league.

Browns Pound Pats

Okay, so the game against the Steelers I thought the Browns played well even though they lost. Then they played even better and pretty much spanked the Saints. After watching the Browns since returning from Japan, they have been bad. So those two games were a definite improvement but I wasn't sold on them or the coaching staff.

Last year, I even called for Mangini's head early on in September. Since the didn't I gave him a free pass for this season, but in return I have called for Brian Daboll's head as this year was some of the worst play calling I have ever seen.

Crow, meet my mouth.

Response to He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named

As many of you know, I'm a Cavs fan and I was a he-who-shall-not-be-named fan. Until "The Decision". I now try to ignore news about him, but it is hard. And this response to his last tv ad is just to good to pass up. I'm sure many have already seen it, but here it is for your viewing pleasure anyway.

 

Cleveland Asian Festival 2011 - Save The Date

The date is set for the 2nd Annual Cleveland Asian Festival - May 21 and 22, 2011.

First Snow of 2010

Yes. It is snowing today. The first of this year. Well, first of this year on this side of summer anyway.