Seeing as it made the international news and all, just letting folks know I'm alright. In fact, no reported deaths thus far. Damage was mainly limited to the inner city and large buildings. Power was knocked out for a few hours but has been restored. Water is okay ( Read more... )

Quick primer! Generally, the gunpla kits come in various "grades" and scales. Starting with 1:144, moving up to 1:100 and then 1:60. In ascending order of build quality/detail, "High Grade" kits can be of all three scales (most commonly 1:144s), Master Grades are 1/100 and then the peerless Perfect Grades are 1:60 ( Read more... )

Me: I built a flipping huge gundam ( Read more... )

I'm home! So good to be back. GG on the flight home though, total travel time from Lynden to Christchurch was something like 37 hours total. Yeesh. If you choose to fly anywhere, fly emirates if you can. They're aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome ( Read more... )

Feels like it's been ages since I posted here ( Read more... )

Went to see Grand Canyon. Went to see Calico. Went to see Bryce Canyon. Guide insisted that the Navajo Trail couldn't be done in less than an hour, I did it in 40 minutes and that's with stopping to take photos. Feet failed to function properly afterwards. Went to see Vegas. Saw stuff in Vegas. This included KA by cirque de soleil. The site doesn't ( Read more... )

Visited Little Tokyo in LA today. Lots of "Japanese trinket" stores filled with swords, fans, kimono, yukata and stuff. Also a lot of zippo lighters oddly enough.

Found a kinokuniya bookstore. It's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome. Used it to fulfil friend present stuffs. plink_chan, I know you said you didn't want/need anything but I caved in and got you ( Read more... )

Hey all, I'm now in LA! I will be back to Washington at some point though for now I think I'll try and travel around a bit ( Read more... )

Hey-o, I'm in Washington now. Back and forth between Lynden and Oroville for the next week or so due to Independence Day and my uncle's in-laws owning a lake house at the lake there along with a couple of kayaks, a speedboat and two jetskis!Pretty awesome but it was getting pretty busy there and I left some stuff at the house so I came back to ( Read more... )

Not much in the way of figurines. Broke my self-imposed rule of not buying anything smaller than a 1/100 and got the 1.5 GundamGot you a Deadborder (for 27,000 won, US$25 by current exchange rates) Tilly. As I thought, despite how limited the Deadborder was supposed to be (along with Gildragon and Whitz Wolf), they were rather plentiful. This one ( Read more... )