I had a burning urge for Orange Crush this morning as I woke up so I pushed aside my "no pop" lifestyle and rushed over to the nearest store to get some. I had a choice between normal or diet and went with the diet for some reason and it tastes like shit and now my mouth is all orange. Whoooooo...

I've been getting a few e-mails from past friends in Japan over the past coupla weeks. I think through my site and the grapevine they've heard I'm comin' over and they've offered much appreciated advice and help. It's makin' the move a lot easier. I'm lookin' at Ikebukuro as a possible place to live and I've been told Kanda is great for access to many publishers. I have family close to Ikebukuro so that was the source of my initial interest but, hell, if the potential for saving some yen on travel within Tokyo is there I might as well go for that as well. Train money adds up after a while. Oh, a cool little thing I found here. Is that not the most ingenious thing?? I'm sure it can be utilized at many other populated locations like stadiums, street corners and order windows at McDonalds. The future is now.

I have, like, 3 pages left on SMLMJ 13 so I'll finish that tonight and I also have a cover to get outta the way.

TAK