The return from Comiket 76 and Comitia 89

I’d write more but the jetlag is doing me in pretty good. Let’s hope I actually write something up as opposed to what happened the last time I made an attempt to write something about Comiket.

Oh my, doesn’t this look dusty.

It comes to no surprise that it has been so long since I’ve written anything in here. Things happen. Interest wanes. Laziness ensues. I’ve run out of two word phrases to use.

In any case, I am going to make an attempt to make more use of this blog. I do have many ideas I’d like to run with for the sake of having this in the first place. For one thing, I am still getting used to how WordPress works so I imagine things will look a bit out of place at times as I tinker with the code and whatever else I can use. Let’s see if I can keep this a bit more consistent then eh?

Today is the start of another era…

Today, Barack Obama is officially inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. My only hope is not that magically good things come right away, but that things will not get worse. Sure he is getting the rock star treatment now, but people need to remember that at the end of today, he has a lot of work ahead of him.

Let us hope he gets things done. Good luck, Mr. President.

Winter Comic Market 75

I recently attended Comic Market 75 which was the first winter Comiket event I have ever attended. Unlike the previous times that I traveled to Japan for Comiket, I was in the company of a rather merry band of mischiefs. It was also cold as hell as opposed to the summer events where I just sweated a lot. Here I was still sweating but it was nevertheless cold. How that works will be explained in due time along with my experience at Comiket 75…just not now. A more thorough post will be forthcoming.

Ragin’ into 2009.

For whatever reason it may be, I have decided to start writing a blog again.  I wasn’t really wanting to keep using the existing sites I had accounts on already, so I figured I’d start anew. What I will write about is rather debatable however.

Why don’t we start off with my thoughts on 2009? 2009 started out with much of a bang in many different ways:

The conflict in Gaza reached new heights of insanity as Israel continued to pound the crap out of this dense Palestinian enclave. As usual the world condemns Israel’s actions, Israelis cheer the military on, and nothing changes. Despite the tragedy of the situation, one perhaps cannot help but laugh somehow at how history seems to just repeat itself. Will something let up this year or will we be reading similar news in 2010 and beyond?

Stocks took off like proverbial soaring birds as the world felt hopeful things would not suck as hard as it seemed. The yen/USD exchange also improved to the tune of 93 yen to $1 USD. And much like how things were going, stuff went to hell quickly as the market took yet another nosedive and the exchange rate dropped down below 90 yen to $1 USD yet again. Good times I tell you.

So I am looking at the situation at hand and figuring that perhaps 2009 will probably suck.  Let’s hope I am wrong here.

…oh and the Chargers dropped it again. That and the Celtics lost 3 in a row?! What the hell is going on???