SO!  Stuff I needed to do that I've done:

* Sent off for my passport.
* Paid my final payment for the tour.  Holy shit.
* Gotten maps of Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Tokyo.
* Gotten an international adaptor plug thingie.
* Gotten a very nifty walking-stick (it collapses! Hopefully it'll keep ME from collapsing!)
* Arranged for two very, very wonderful friends ( Read more... )

 Happy Independence Day, all!

Am still in NYC; have just come back from watching the Macey's fireworks display over the Hudson River with nightengale .  It was MAGNIFICENT, and I have pics and footage to post later on (I left my phone cable at home.)  It's been one hell of a visit-- so much has happened, I don't know where to start; best way, though, will be ( Read more... )

Here I sit in Las Vegas International Airport at just before midnight, eating really awful Chicken Alfredo from the airport Pizza Hut.  There's really nothing else open that serves what could be vaguely called food, though the 'Home Turf' sports bar is starting to look reeeeeeeally appealing.  I mean, beer has vitamins, right?  Guinness is good for ( Read more... )

 Haven't done a 'State of the Ysabet' post in a while, so I figured hey, it's as good a way of delaying cleaning the ferret-room as anything else, sooooo....

Hmm.  Been lots of things going on with me, I guess--

( STUFF! AND MORE STUFF! AND YET MORE STUFF! )