I've been finding that it's increasingly difficult to maintain a good recollection of events and organization of our activities, trips and other events here in Japan. I started a website: CanadianSushi but that's been on the back-burner now for so many months it's embarassing. I don't think it even exists at the moment, as I was hosting it with a rather shady company. I will rectify that but not now. :-) In the mean time, Bonnie and I haven't stopped shooting pictures, video and we certainly haven't stopped going to interesting places and meeting new people. So, I shall make an attempt at blogging.

Seeing that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a blog these days, I would venture to say that this is primarily for my own sake, and perhaps those of our friends who want to learn what we've been up to, but don't get e-mailed or phoned nearly enough. The frequency of update to this blog will be sporadic at best, but at least I can make an effort to record those thoughts and memories (and hopefully photos too) before they get stuffed into some dark, dusty recess of my mind, never to be retrieved again. I hope the photo thing will happen, as we've recently purchased a tiny digital camera that fits right into my pocket, but takes some spledid photos. It stays in my jacket pocket at all times, and will get downloaded to the computer usually only when the memory card fills up -- about 60-ish pictures I think. In any event, if you're curious, I published a review for this camera here: http://www.zayith.com/reviews/RR211 My review has also been picked up by an online digital camera publication here: http://www.dcviews.com but they link to the same page mentioned above, so it doesn't matter which way you go in but DcViews is a solid website so you may wish to check it out.