Something I need is this Turkey and gravy soda I saw an article about....click on the link, if anyone can get me some of that nasty-ass soda I will send them a nice fancy bottle of sake in thanks....My email address is at the right with all the other links...

I have a new love...her name is Rugby. Rugby is sooo cool. Watching the Rugby World Cup has been soo much fun. I was rooting for Ireland after the worthless US Team failed to win so much as a match. Ireland played gutsy against the Aussies but lost at the very end...The final was amazing...

Australia vs England...could it get any better?? The Convicts versus The Mother Country as the announcer put it...it was great...Johnny Wilkenson is now my favorite athelete haha...that guy is a warrior. He single handedly (or leggedly) beat France 21 - 7 on 7 drop kicks. Then he not only made drop kicks and brilliant clearing kicks all game in the final, he set up the try that put england up until the very end of regulation. The damn aussies made england commit a penalty on a scrum right near the england end zone and the Elton something or other put in the field goal to tie the game with no time left and send it into overtime. Then in overtime Johnny made a drop goal and they Brits were winning after the first over time 17-14...in the second overtime the aussies tied it with like a minute left and then with literally seconds left on the clock Johnny W. put in the drop goal to win it...amazing.

I just got off the phone with my grandmother. Her sister recently passed away. First time I talked to her since then...she seems ok...

I exchanged a series of emails with Miho today...she seems genki...hehe...She is doing well. Her parents have stopped yelling at her and they now actually talk to her...they are trying to teach her lady-like mannerisms...My gf might just yet turn into a lady hahaha...she has also lost 6 kilos...she was never fat, not even close...but always wanted to lose weight, so that has made her very happy...

I am ok now too. I have decided to stop dwelling in my own misery and work circles around all my colleagues...Life is starting to slowly return to normal...which is always nice hehe...I will have a phone line and a tv by the end of the week...thatalways makes one happier...once I come back from NY I will get a satellite...they are very cheap here...not like the states...

Akiko came up to visit me...I miss hanging out with her...she's fun to chill with. We had a lot of fun. We walked from shibuya station through omotesando and harajuku to Meiji-Jingu (Meiji Shrine). It was cool I love going there. She had never been there so I took her and she was like a tourist running around taking pictures hahaha. Really funny...also there were alot of traditional Japanese weddings that day so it was really cool to see all the brides in traditional japanes wear and costumes...sooo cool!