Blogging from an i pad in an apple store in ginza. Fantastic device!

Blast zoundry!

Hail!

Here are some pictures that have been hanging around for ages!

Snow on our roof.

In front of a high tec train.

The quiet mountain town we went to for our onsen trip a while back.

Ingenious method of keeping snow off the road. Water is sprayed from cats eye like things continuously.

View from the window of our onsen. That cage on the right contained a couple of bears, which i didn’t photograph for some reason!

Mayumi!

Our drink store.

The traditional finery

The resplendant meal!

Tucking in to the Udon noodles.

Me too!

Snow with bamboo.

Pretty genki around here. Looking forward to popping back in a few months!

haha! they are pretty neat. i look like some sort of crazy mountain man!

Hello all! Happy belated birthday Mama! You prezzy will be a little late im afraid, but it’s on it’s way.

I finally downloaded picasa and the blogging program, so here are the picture from a while back.

Here are a few from the beach when i went up to Mayumi’s family home.

Very pleasant and sunny.

Here are some older ones from Korea.

That thing in the middle of the table that looks like a glistening alien thorax is in fact raw crab.

Mayumi can’t wait to get at the succulent alien spleen.

A fine eatery in Izu, the place we went for the hot springs.

Same place, different angle. they had very good scallops cooked in butter.

At the hotel, dressed in my finery.

Out side in the town nearby. very nice place with old style buildings. It had an area called Perry town after Commodore Perry who aided in opening japan to trade with the west.

Im sporting a touch of a side parting for some reason.

Old house with a mix of Japanese and western aesthetics.

A canon. possible one of perry’s favoured canon for slaying the natives.

A cactus. Perhaps unrelated to Perry.

Delightful cooking pot experience in one of the private onsens.

Mayumi, being small, could completely submerge herself.

Mayumi crafting food at the homestead.

Ill see if i can scrounge up some more photos!

Alls well here! 🙂

Indeed a peculiar dream. The other night i had to fight a chap, in some sort of gladiatorial situation, armed only with a spoon. I stabbed him in the thigh with the handle and i believe he died quite unpleasantly. Did i actually slay some dream denizen, who had some manner of real life unconnected to mine? Or was it some mental problem personified?
The trouble with dreams is, they have very little continuity so its very hard to see anything resembling a world that keeps going after we wake up. If we can control and manipulate our dreams then there is nothing actually solid and real in our dream. There is therefore no need for roads, or cars, or potholes. those are requirements of a material world, which the dream world is surely not. Unless you were having your dream on a layer above a sort of base matter, say a dream terrain, and you traveled over blip or bump in it, which manifested itself as a pothole.
On the other hand. For a road to exist there needs to be a set of rules, like gravity and such. But dream rules rarely match up from one dream to the next. So there would have to be a million little worlds each with there own different rules that we visit every night, like a plague of horrifying godlike ghosts, bending matter to our will and leaving a trail of madness in our wake. Actually that would make quite an interesting story if told from the perspective of a dream chap!