Where am I sitting right now?

Workspace
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Pretty happy with our new apartment.

Long time without posting…

It’s been way too long since I last wrote something.

But, in my defense, we’ve been pretty busy. Highlights?

• Yoko’s cousin’s wedding in Niigata.
• Work, lots of work.
• Yoko’s brothers wedding.
• More work.
• Moved house.

And Mia has teeth now! She is very chompy.

Two weddings in the space of about 5 weeks, both out of town, so we were away for the weekend. Both great though, took heaps of photos, really happy with how they turned out. Will think about posting one or two on Flickr. Weddings in Japan are quite the event, very impressive.

Also, I finally got around to getting a new camera… I’m back with the Nikon brand again! One shiny new Nikon D90. Am most pleased with it. Have been really enjoying Black and White again…

And we’ve moved.

We’re now living in Kachidoki, only been here about a week, but loving it so far. It takes a bit longer to get to work, but it’s a much bigger apartment, in a really great part of Tokyo.

It’s on the 57th floor – second from the top in this photo.

The view is great, maybe even better than the view from our old place in Shibaura.

We went for our first good walk around the district today, had lunch in Triton Square, then walked around the parks there, then walked up to Tsukishima and explored some of the backstreets near “Monja Street”. Very cool, great way to spend a Sunday. Posted a couple of photos from the day on Flickr.

 

Anyway, will try and post a little more frequently.

Hello!

Long Weekend in Shiga Kogen

It was dumping down on Friday and Saturday then perfect sunny, no wind
and -15'c on Sunday.
The cars in this photo arrived on Friday night, so almost 50cm of
fresh snow since then.

On my desk...

On my desk...
Originally uploaded by k.blueice

I noticed how reflective the iPhone really is the other day when I put it down on my desk... so I thought I'd take a photo of it. I really don't like taking still life photos that much, so I don't really do it that often. Usually I don't really like how they turn out, but am reasonably happy with this one. It also reminded quite a lot of one of my friend's photos which I really liked.

So how is the iPhone? I've had it for quite a while... its damn good. In fact, to not clutter the internet with more of the same, Thomo has already summed it up pretty damn well.

What else is going on? Not much, hanging out at home for a while (I'm on holiday!), playing with Mia, catching up on some sleep, trying to avoid reading Bloomberg, and going snowboarding this week, so it better start snowing tomorrow, because it's a bit lacking at the moment. The forcast is for a white Christmas which will be fun :)

Busy...

Has been rather busy of late... why?

1 - Mia !

http://yogobear.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-mia.html

http://yogobear.blogspot.com/2008/09/mia-day-5.html

http://yogobear.blogspot.com/2008/10/some-more-photos-of-mia.html

So cool ;)

2 - Work

There was this little bit of a problem... Caused all sorts of fun and games. Maybe "meltdown" would be a better description? Oh well, bad for some (Lehman's... ouch), but not too bad for us. Have heard rumors that lots of those $20k per month apartments in Roppongi Hills are sitting vacant now that all the Lehman's crowd can't afford them, and apparently can be rented really cheap... may have to investigate that.

Besides those two? That's enough to keep you busy, but...

Have managed to take a couple of photos. I had to go into work late one night and decided to walk. It only takes about 35 minutes, and have been wanting to take some night photos for a while. I've uploaded a few of them to flickr, start here and work backwards... all taken hand held.

And I am still uploading photos reasonably regularly from my phone to here.

What else is going on? It's getting colder... there is snow starting to fall in the mountains! Mt. Fuji has some already - can see it from work on a clear day. We're already planning and booking snowboarding trips. Looks like this year will be Christmas in the snow! Cool.

Oh! you can buy fireworks in Japan...

At Toys'R'us. And they are cheap. This monster bag is only $50. If only I had somewhere to let them off...

I think I might have to "find" somewhere to let them off...