6 cats and 3 dogs are freshly minted citizens of Japan!

Meanwhile, I’m here on a 90-day tourist visa :S

You can take the child out of the Midwest…

… only to have them end up in the farmland of Japan. Of course, not so many Shinto shrines in the Illinois cornfields.

Tokyo rain

Up, up, and とおい!!!

さよなら、アメリカ。こんにちは、お日本! Also, did you know that when traveling with a cello, you buy an extra seat and it travels in the cabin with you. In our case, in between us :S

Chunking Rotations Addendum

Two more observations about my button layouts in Final Fantasy XIV One other layout I use which is specific to the Bard (and the other two physical ranged DPS jobs, the Machinist and the Dancer) has to do with a set of abilities that are named after parts of the body: Head Graze, Leg Graze, […]

Time skip

Remember at the end of season 3 of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, when it jumped forward “One year later” and then we spent the next half a season learning about what had happened during the skipped time? Yeah so this blog is doing that now. It’s been five-and-a-half years since my last entry, and unsurprisingly, […]

Now THAT’S what I call spelunking

Enigmatic island compound of mystery

So first, this: Ooh, secret island compound! What dastardly James Bond villain in black leather armor might have this as his lair?! Naturally, a closer look is de rigeur… Wait…what? Everything’s locked and I can’t get in? No snarky guards even, or a note? Hrmpfph. And, hold on a sec: haven’t I seen that crest […]

Brave, brave Sir Osis

I feel like the Psijic Order is the NSA of Tamriel