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This is a picture of the unopened Melon Fanta bottle that I made a special trip to 7-11 to get for Mike as it left my hand and began it’s journey to the bottom of the recycle bin near my gate at Narita airport. I was not allowed to take it on the plane. Terrorists R teh suk so hard oh man you assholes owe Mike a new soda. But since that won’t happen I will mail Mike one in a few weeks.

With some more pictures from each month and I might talk about something that probably concerns them.

In an hour I’ll leave my place, in about 5 hours I’ll leave the country and in about 24 hours I’ll arrive in Houston, and in about 28 hours I’ll arrive in Omaha and then maybe an hour later I will be home. HaH.

My goal is an easy one- Not to miss any flights and Not to sleep on the floor of an airport.

This is what I stared at from midnight to 11am last december 23rd in Minneapolis.

And that was after the 12 hour flight from Japan and after several hours in Detroit. But this time I have a DS and tetris so it would not be near as awful…

In april I took photos of Azusa in Yanaka when the sakura were all out. None of which can be seen in the photo BUT you can see something weird about my nostril when the loopy end part of a Capital A is placed over it. I don’t know what is ever expected from our photo shoots- I enjoy taking the photos and she sure does like to be photographed, and despite not giving her the color 35mm prints until later in the summer (and not even yet printing the black and white from these sessions) we both have plans to have similar outings in the future.

This was also the month when Mike and I walked from Minami Senju to Shinjuku. Coming across Nippori station we “found” this TanTanMen shop that makes their noodles loudly by hand in a small shop that is painted red and black with large windows. The sakura trees outside reflect nicely in glasses of water and it is this kind of picture that makes me really like digital phtotography for the ease. The soup was great but just a day or two before (?) I had a wisdom tooth pulled and it was not as easy to eat as I had hoped. Repeated visits have proved it to be A Good Shop for food.

I went to Akihabara once this year. At a shrine they have this statue and I promise you that is not a peach.