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Kazoku

  • Big Ride!
    A precious gift from God...

K&K

  • ALL in Christ...

Mine'n for Wantoks

  • Juice's Wedding
    Wantoks bilo PNG... All grow'n up.

Remember the Titans

  • The LU crew
    Bring'n back the good times... Thanksgiving tradition at the Dettmers... good times always. You guys rock! Accountability, Brotherhood, Demolition, Probations, Nerdfests, Prayer, Football, Golf Carts, Mantests, Devos, Hall Ball, Socknights... 2A! Eph. 6:10

November 19, 2008

Aww Dang... Snow~!! - 雪・・・でございますぅ~!!

Woke up Monday morning to this... "Aw Dang." Winter's here in Columbus!
月曜の朝、起きてシャッターを開けたら・・・「お~。」コロンバスにもついに冬がやって来ました!

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(First snow of the season! - 今年の初雪です!)

To spice it up a notch, the wind chill last night was in the 'teens...' I love snow, but not so much the cold. Too bad they go hand-in-hand. But, I'm take'n it for all it's worth! Gotta start tuning up my 'board for the slopes.
雪だけだったらまだしも、昨日の晩はマイナスで5~10℃ぐらいまで冷え込んでて・・・ブルブルブルゥ~!雪は大好きなんだけど、寒さはあんまヨロシクないですね。でも寒くなきゃないし、ちょいっと微妙だな・・・・。でも、そんな事で落ち込んでられないんで、そろそろボードをチューンアップしにゃ!

Stay warm (If you're in the Northern side of the globe...)! ALL in Christ...
風邪をひかないよう気いつけて下さいな(特に北国の人たちは・・・)。んでは、全て主にありて・・・

November 02, 2008

Summer & Fall 2008 (Getting super slack with my updates...)

Once again, it's been a while... and it's amazing how that happens every time.

Summer and Fall was a crazy adventure for me, mixed with so many happenings. It's wrong to summarize it like that, having been through so much. But all in all, God's been providing and orchestrating His work in my life, and He faithfully continues to do so. There's been big ups and downs in all that too. And I've gotta admit that it hasn't been an easy walk in faith. But hoping and praying for nothing but the best that only God could ever muster up!

Through God's healing and also through each of your precious prayers, I've recovered to a functional self from my pneumothorax, to being able to work and get through my daily routines in life (Eh... 'bout feeling at 80%?). In that, what's been cool and such a blessing lately is being able to get back out on my mountain bike! But of course, having to take it easy... The healing process has been painfully slow but praising God that my lung/ side is steadily improving.

The end of the year's going to be keeping me really busy with work and church activities... but it's exciting to see what God has in store. I'm praying that as I come back to Christ daily in every aspect of my life, that He would graciously allow me to be a light in this dark world that serve in.

I hope you all are having a rock'n time too. God bless!

Here's some recent pix...

Summer:

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Fall:

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Welp, till next time...

ALL in Christ!

June 22, 2008

Lil' Visit To RMH - ちょいっと入院

Been looking forward to Summer break for a while! The sun, heat, bikes, music, fireworks, cookouts, trails, the vast nature of woods, caves, rivers, lakes...etc. to rock out in with family and friends... Honestly, who DOESN'T look forward to summers???

But it came a little earlier with an unexpected surprise, conviniently(?) giving me a little time to update you all:

夏って最高っすよね~?暖かい日差しを思いっきり浴びながら・・・自転車に乗ったり、ライブを聞きに行ったり、花火大会を見に行ったり、ハイキング、BBQ、水泳をしたり、囲まれている素晴らしい自然(林や森、洞窟、山、谷、川、湖、などなど)をチャンレンジしたり・・・っととにかく色々とメ~ッチャ楽しみにしています!

でも、ちょっと変わったビックリイベントがもとに早くも夏休み(?)に突入してしまったので、早速の近況をお知らせしますわ:



Day 1

(June 12th - Thursday) ⇒ After a couple hits of chest pain/ shortness of breath/ coughing at work, I ran to an Urgent Care Unit, where the wide-eyed peeps quickly found me a ticket for an ambulance ride tagged with a straight access admission into the RMH (Riverside Methodist Hospital) ER unit...

So the big dealio: Spontaneous Pneumothorax (Cause ⇒ Unknown...)

Yeah, so what that basically means is that a random hole(s?) errupted in my right lung where it caused my lung to collapse under the interior air pressure (I think...). The docs found me at 50% right lung capacity and... yeah, and it sure made breathing a whole heck-a-harder...

(6月12日-木曜日) ⇒ 仕事中に何度か息苦しさと胸の痛みを覚え、謎の深い咳が出始めた為、早速近辺のクリニックに仕事場から直行。そこで、「肺に問題があるからコロンバス市の大病院に行って手術をする必要があるよ(え"~~?!)」って言われ、救急車に運ばれてRiverside Methodist Hospital(リバーサイド・メソジスト病院)の救急治療部に運ばれ・・・

何?何?何~?・・・って聞くと「起因不明の気胸です」、っと医者から宣告。

ま、簡単に言い換えると、何らかの理由で肺に穴が数箇所開いてしまい、そこから体の内部に空気がもれこんだ為、その空気圧の関係で肺が潰れてしまっている状態・・・との事らしいです。最初のレントゲンでは何と右の肺が50パ~やられている(大きさが半分まで潰れている)状態で・・・どおりで変に息苦しくって胸が痛かった訳が分かりました!


Day 2

(June 13th - Friday@ 1:00AM) ⇒ Bored & sleepy. Waiting for X-Ray results and the call for surgery...

(6月13日-金曜日@朝の1時) ⇒ レントゲンの結果と手術をするか、しないかの指示を待機中にあまりにも退屈&眠くて・・・

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Day 9

(June 21st - Saturday) ⇒ Over a week now with two drain hoses, vacuum pumps, sexy green gown, nerdishly high-tech O2 probe on the finger, messy bed, and the shag invasion...

(6月21日-土曜日) ⇒ 入院1週間後:手術後、真空ドレーンを二つに、ハイテク酸素センサーを指に付け、お茶目なグリーンガウンを着ながら、ちょいっとゴチャゴチャなベッドの横でポーズ。ヒゲぼさぼさ~の大鍔君。

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Been doing ok since day 1, hanging on to our Lord... but there's been some hard and painful hits at times... Needless to say, I'd greatly appreciate your prayers!!

まっ、初日から色んな所を通されてきています。もちろんかなり痛く、辛いときはありますが、いつも神様が一歩一歩の中にいて下さっている事を信じつつ・・・。皆さんのお祈りの中にも覚えてくだされば感謝です!

March 29, 2008

Easter Service! - イースター礼拝!

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So as you can see the little slices of the big sha-bang... the Easter service was a blessed time, and a blast! Thank you so much for those who've been remembering us in your prayers! Praise God for Jesus' resurrection and victory!

全体のほんの一部しかお見せできませんが・・・イースター礼拝は守られ、祝され、メッチャ楽しかったっす!皆様のお祈りの中にも支えられた事に心から感謝です!イエス様の復活、勝利に感謝!

March 22, 2008

Updates - きんきょ~

Man, I'm really starting to slack on this blog thing... so trying to catch everybody up a little on the life of Zuto! Here's a few pix to show for my crazy crazy life:

Enjoy!

ブログが数ヶ月ぐらい放置状態になってしまってて済みませんです・・・って言う事で、またちょっとズト君ライフのアップデートです。僕のクレイジーX2ライフの写真集をどんぞ:

エンジョイ~!


Obubu's (Top-dawg tea makers from Waduka, Kyoto!) Visit to CJCC
おぶぶ⇒toCJCC (はるばる京都県、和束市より来訪された超一流のお茶屋さん!)

One word... "WOW!" Definitely the BEST tea I've EVER had... can you tell from Kiyoshi-san's face ↓ ??

かなり感動しました!はっきり言って今まで僕が飲んだ事があるお茶で、これ以上「美味い!」って思ったのはないっす・・・。潔さんの顔がまさにそれを語ってますよね↓??

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Ol' PNG Friends!
PNGの仲間と再会!


Andrea Kunder and Tim Shea came through Columbus to visit the PNG peeps of Columbus (Sungs, Hepners and myself...). Good times...

同じウカルンパのInternational Schoolで一緒に学校に行ってたAndrea Kunderとよくお世話になった元英語・歴史の先生だったTim Shea先生がコロンバスのPNG仲間(Sung家、Hepner兄弟と僕・・・)に会いに来てくれました!メッチャ楽しい交わりに感謝!

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The Stink'n Blizzard That Rolled Through Columbus
コロンバスに今冬初めてブリザード来襲

The total snow-fall wasn't like the worse I've ever seen, but it was the 'record snow-fall in two days' for Columbus. What stunk the most out of this whole ordeal was that the wind was blowing into the front of my house, so I had close to twice as much snow to shovel off my driveway than my neighbors (What the unfair...?!?!). So I thought I was gonna break my back after 3 solid hours of hauling snow... Aiya!

But no utilities outages, and I had an AWESOME time snowboarding/ skiing on my first natural powder with Kiyoshi-san after the storm... so praise God for that!

今まで見たり、経験した事のある降雪量としては上位に入るブリザードではなかったにしろ、なんとコロンバスでは2日間での降雪量としては、記録的だったとか??いずれにせよ、なんたって一番困ってイヤらしかったのが、夜通しの風の吹きさらしで、朝起きた時の大発見。なんと、僕の正面玄関・ガレージ&ドライブウェーの前と上には近所の人達よりも2倍近くの立派な雪の山(一人暮らししていてただでさえ大変なのに何するんずな~!?!?って感じ)。3時間雪はねをした後は背中がボロボロ・・・トホホホ・・・。

でもその反面、電気、水道、ガスが止まらずに暖かい家で気持ちよくいれたし、雪はねのご褒美(自分で勝手に決めてなんですかい?)に教会の潔さんとフワフワなゲレンデでスノボー&スキーをしまくりました・・・こればっかりは神様に感謝としか言いようが無いっすね!

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Prepping for Easter!

イースターの準備!

Our church has been crazy busy tackling a fun art project for Easter... Please be praying for our service tomorrow, that God's spirit will touch every heart that comes!

毎度おなじみなんですが・・・大きいイベントの前はCJCCの主要メンバーはてんてこ舞い!今回は紙芝居風の楽しいアートプロジェクトにチャレンジ!明日の礼拝が守られ、神様の御霊が来る人達の一人一人に語りかけて下さるようにお祈りに覚えていて下さい!

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That's it for now folks! God bless you all...
今んとこはこれぐらいっす!神様の祝福が皆様の上にありますように・・・

Jeshy's Wedding

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    One flesh... with Jesh

NAIAS 2008

  • Mazda Taiki Concept
    NAIAS tech-fest 2008!

Winter Break 2007 ~ 2008

  • AWESOME provision from God!

CJCC Hocking Hills Trip

  • Trekking the hill countries of Oh-hi-ah!

Kimu & Kaori in Columbus

  • Self Portrait + Kaori
    Good times with my sistas!

CJCC Summer Camp

  • Chill'n in God's nature...

Weekend in Chi-Town

  • Marie-chan
    Wacky-ness from beginning to end... The main ingredient to the good times.

April Madness...

  • Grill'n some MEAN steaks!
    Spring is here... with some crazies!

Easter 2007

  • Catch ya guys later!
    Yup... He's risen.

Josh & Jenny's Wedding

  • ...Followed by a wild dance party.
    God's love and grace shining all over...

NAIAS 2007

  • The PNG crew in D-Town
    In the frontlines of car tech.