Updates

New car? Acquired. And all of us were content with the result, which is awfully rare in my family. So the van is at last mine-all-mine, for as long as it manages to keep rolling forward.

I shall leave Thursday for a family vacation: up to NY for a day and a half, then on to Montreal for a couple days. We shall go to Kinokuniya, see a show, go to brunch, visit with relatives...maybe hopefully swing back to downtown Montreal for some nostalgia and reasonably authentic Chinese food. Oh, and a trip to one of NY's Japanese French bakeries. Raleigh has enough swanky cuisine, but I miss the cheap ethnic food I could get in Montreal. That, and real bagels.

I leave you with this link from a Japanese newspaper (take a look at the picture, whether you can read it or not): Lemur and Fennec!