nice photos! i am currently at work. pondering between lessons. my internet is not working and we are having a difficult time getting it fixed. mainly as the support center is in japanese. most stressful. the apple store near my work is getting a bit fed of me traipsing in and pretending to peer at the insanely expensive imacs while i check my emails on the sly. we should get it up and running soon or we will get a new provider.

aha! as of 11ish tonight i shall have internet at the homestead and will be able to skype and mail and stuff. the one down side to my wonder machine is that its all in japanese. better get cracking on the old language books.

another earthquake today, im getting pretty used to them but they are still mildly exciting. the prospect of some sort of horrifying disaster adds a little spice to the day.

I was doing a rudimentary clearout of the shed yesterday and came across my venerable Compaq laptop. Clunky and leaden, with its small, innovative, abrasive central nodule for navigation, it cost, as I recall, well in excess of £1000.

Billy Bunter was clearly one of those right thinking, enterprising chaps who live life for the momant and to the fullest! a visionary from whom we could all learn much.

i bought a new computer to facilitate my internet needs. after checking out the ultra cheap Eeepcs i descovered that Acer had jumped on the tiny cheap pc bandwagon and made their own. to my untutored eye i seemed vastly superior so i got it. it cost me the princely sum of 20,000 yen. 100 pounds. as i purchased it from the same place that we had got the internet i got a wopping 30,000 yen off. (150 pounds) not too shabby. and it is a rather neat little beast. www.acer.com/aspireone/

im still shaking of a tenatious cough which is sticking around dispite me drinking buckets of a drink which claims, in bold english on the side, to have the power of twelve lemons!