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Here it is summer vacation and August is looking to be as busy as any other month so far-

Among things on my schedule:

-Printing all the prints for my photo exhibition which will open on the 30th in Shinjuku. I see that I will have to get good quickly at printing on fiber paper, as my wallet is not going to allow for too many mistakes. Paper is not cheap. I also need to possibly get my work matted and have 4 large prints made from some half frame negatives.

- I will be saying goodbye to good old 102 Maison do Fleur here in Nakawagura, Matsudo. I will be moving a mile away to a new place near Kamihongo station. How near? Two minutes by foot. Nah, who am I kidding— One Minute. My place now is 15 minutes and three very steep hills from my closest station, Kita Matsudo. From the new place I can still walk to school each morning in about 10. So while I am printing I also need to get packing and all the other preperations that go with moving in Japan, including the cost ahem bribe that I must pay to the real estate agency for letting me move into their building.

- I almost forgot, for 3 or 4 days in August I will go to Hachijyo jima, an island that is a one night boat trip south of Tokyo. In days past it was a prision-island, mostly for political prisioners from all over Japan. The island culture that they created is said to be quite interesting. That and the sushi has been promised to be awesome.