OOPS!!! I forgot!!!

There was a request a while ago for the MySpace name of the pyscho, small and annoying Philippino boy. Here it is in all it's glory; you can imagine my surprise when I first read it on that flight from hell! Enjoy! http://myspace.com/phukkinpissoff (Isn't that just charming!? Gah, what a creep!)
On a happier note, my days are looking up! This weekend I'm heading to Aso, (a town that has a volcano in it. Neat!) for the annual fire festival. The whole town gets into this festival! They write huge kanji characters, in fire, on the side of the volcano and than dance down a street swinging flaming bales of hay around their heads! Awesome! I can't wait!
Also, prepare to be jealous, I'm going to HONG KONG the first week in May!!! YAY YAY YAY!! I'm so excited, I don't know what to do with myself! We just finalized the hotel reservations today, so everything is taken care of! The shopping is INSANE in Hong Kong from what I've been able to see! It'll definitely be awesome for me... I haven't seen a decent mall since January! AHHHHH!!!
I hope to have wonderful, fire-filled pics up after this weekend; this event is supposed to be amazing! Well, anything beats sitting on my booty all weekend... let's get this fire party started!
Ja ne!

Punxsutawney Phil's Prediction came true, if only for a day or two!

This past weekend in Kumamoto was so beautiful that I cannot express it in mere words! Let me just say that I spent the weekend walking around outside in a t-shirt, (yes! A SHORT SLEEVED T-SHIRT!!!) jeans and sunglasses... and I was a little bit warm! When I happened to be inside, (a sin with weather like that!) I had all of the windows in my appato open to let in the warm spring breeze. Sigh, it was wonderful! If I was promised weather like that every day, man alive, I'd never leave Takahama! :) Of course, I did feel for all of my lovely MN friends and family... bogged down in a foot and a half of snow and such. I called Joe on Sunday, (so it was Sat night in MN) and had to call him back because he was shovelling. I really had to giggle! Not to be mean or anything, but the contrast was just so... well, you get what I'm trying to say!
Alas! My weekend of bliss was just that, a weekend. The rain came on Sunday night and chased the beautiful weather away! Sigh. Now I really, really can't wait for sping to arrive! Hooray for unseasonably warm winters! FYI, here's a bit of interesting info: this will be the first winter since they started keeping track of the weather that it hasn't snowed in Tokyo! They started recording the weather in like 1890 or something! Crazy! A case for global warming? I'll let y'all decide!
Mata ne, tomadachi!