Actually, there are enough of you out there on this half of the globe that you're probably just a *few* hours behind me.

For those of you on the *other* side of the International Date Line, greetings from Japan! Yes, we actually finally made it...and as a "bonus" of sorts, I even got to stay behind while the ship went out and did circles around the Western Pacific for a couple of months. (I say "bonus" because my extended stay involved a rather unpleasant couple of days at the base hospital for surgery, but all in all I'd say it was [sorta] worth it.)

I'm planning to get back to my on-again, off-again hobby of photography mixed up with a bit of videography, and with the Tokyo Game Show coming up this weekend, I couldn't have picked a better time to get back into the mix. Hopefully, you can look forward to a bunch of poorly-planned, blurry crowd shots in the coming weeks, and hopefully some actually decent nature photos thrown into the mix (assuming I can convince my leash-holders to let me get away for a full weekend to explore...).

That's all for now!