A couple weeks ago, the hard disk crashed on my home computer (it was a Mac G4 that I got used in 2001, so it definitely lived a full life!). Things are too tight right now to do anything about another computer, and next month, when the household will start to have two monthly paychecks coming in, every spare yen of both of 'em will be needed to ( Read more... )

After seeing it last Monday, avalonjones and I had planned to see the Saiyuki musical a second time on September 21 (this Sunday!), but now it turns out we won't be able to go after all ( Read more... )

THING #1: A Kazuya Minekura Signing That It's Still Possible To Get In On!To commemorate the July 25 publication of "Salty Dog V," Kazuya Minekura will have a book signing at Animate Ikebukuro on August 3 ( Read more... )

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Better late than never...Happy New Year!


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Blurrrg. The company I work for has just moved from its rental warehouse home of nearly 10 years to a mondo new building in the next prefecture north. The last two weeks are a blur of packing and tearing down and setting up and unpacking and inventorying. But we finally got done yesterday--just in time for 'way more enjoyable things, like the new ( Read more... )

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Verbatim from Journey To The REST:

7/12/2007: 'RELOAD' ON HIATUS AFTER ALL With her entry to the hospital looming on July 14 for her surgery on July 17, Minekura-sensei tried her best to finish the second half of Saiyuki RELOAD side story "Mezase! Tenkaichi" in time to make the ZERO-SUM issue coming out July 28...but it unfortunately wasn't ( Read more... )

First of all, mondo thanks to dwellerverse and the_breakroom for gifting this LJ with their remaining paid time! Will try to put it to good use. Thanks again!!

This is probably old news, but today was the first chance I had to check Minekura-sensei's diary since last week, so just saw the news... Quickly bashed out for Journey To The REST:

6/27/2007: LAST 'RELOAD' FOR A ( Read more... )