Hello all...it has been quite a while since we last spoke.

What have I done over the last 2 months? Well I'm glad you asked...

I am in Japan now. More specifically, I am now living in Hamamatsu. My girlfriend and I are currently staying together in the living space above the office until we save up a bit more yen for a new place (we just left the last place we were at because the neighbor was racist and terrified of me, the white devil). She complained and it became a mess so we said "f*** you, goodbye." I am working full-time now, both at the family's snack bar and main company (which makes sushi lunches for funerals). Those that haven't been to Japan will not likely know what a snack bar is...it's nothing horrible, just not for me. Mixing drinks is one thing, but actually having to hang out with customers at their table and whatnot and listen to the drunks hit on my girlfriend is a bit too much for me. Typically guys don't often work at these places, but I guess I am a pretty hot commodity since most of them have never had the chance to speak to a foreigner and jump at the opportunity. The other half jump at the opportunity to talk to my girlfriend...which I am not too pleased about. Luckily the two of us only work there once a week. The sushi is the job I really like. Eventually her mom will pass the company down to us, but right now we are still learning all the ropes. I haven't had a position of power in any of my previous lines of work and I kind of enjoy running people into the ground :-P

Anyhoo...we're officially getting married at the end of this month--->and I have to go all the way to the American Embassy in Tokyo next week (I just found out today), the closer consulate in Nagoya doesn't accept people from this prefecture...sigh...

In the meantime, I played through what I think in most of FFT (though haven't finished) and am currently playing Brave Story, which I actually really like. I saw all the less than stellar reviews and sort of wrote it off as a side project, but I am having quite a bit of fun with it, though it's quite simple really. I think I am near half-way at about 8 hours...and I've never been in danger of dying once yet so I guess it's on the short and easy side of things.

I went the whole of February and most of March without playing anything...and then one day my girlfriend was bored and asked about my DS (she hates video games). Well, she hasn't put it down since...she beat New Super Mario Bros. inside and out, ran Mario Kart into the ground, and is now destroying Phantom Hourglass. I have the JPN version of PH so she has no problem with the dialogue but I don't think she'll be able to do much with any of the other games I have for PSP or DS. She doesn't like music games so that takes care of Elite Beat Agents. It's cool now that I have an excuse to go look at games but she has yet to play an RPG and I wonder what she'll make of them. Anyway, that's how it is...

And I think I will leave it at that for today...it's 4:16am...I just got done with work...now time for some Brave Story...