Greetings and salutations!
Check out the new pictures by clicking the link in the last post or on the left of your screen. When you enter the Japan 2004 album, be sure to click the SHOW ALL link to save some clicking as new pics appear in numerical order. There are two new videos too, check out:

A Pigeon on the Loose
Olley's King of Ground Comp

Please be aware that these videos will likely only play in recent versions of Windows Media Player.

Moving on....

Things have been very exciting lately. I have a good feeling about that Communications Assistant job I applied for as the interviews have gone extremely well. Also, Takako is coming to visit this weekend. I am looking forward to seeing her very much. I had to teach an emergency class today as both the Japanese teacher and regular Native teacher were out of commission. So despite having no time to prepare, the class went quite well.

Japanese kids are big on Junken (Rock, Scissors, Paper - yes that's the order it's said here). You can use it to resolve nearly any imaginable dispute, and I am convinced it had become deeply entrenched in Japanese culture *S* If you look at the new pics and vids...you'll notice a pigeon in Heather's apartment, which was hilarious, as was chatting it up with drunk business men on the train the other night. There's all sorts of comedy to be found here. In other news, for you tech types, the Sony PSP comes out here in a couple months...I might scoop one up. But yeah...that's all for now.

With Hope,
Joseph