effing google!

Well, I actually like google just fine, but I'm really annoyed about blogger now belonging to it. After the transition practically the whole thing -- as all of you living over here probably know by now -- is in Japanese. It's mostly because of this that I haven't posted anything in awhile. I CAN'T READ (most of) THE STUPID OPTIONS!!! I finally decided to just start pushing buttons and figure out how to post here.

Other than that...

As of friday I can now add a new item to the list of strange things I've eaten since coming to Japan.
I've had squid so fresh that it's skin was still changing colors, whale (which I feel guilty about now after learning about the sketchy way Japan gets whales), pig stomach, pig foot, raw and cooked boar meat, and now I have eaten horse.
Raw horse.

We went to a small Okinawan restaurant in town on Friday and it was lovely. I'd been once before and it has all kinds of crazy food (see afore mentioned pig foot) and we had alcohol with a dead snake in the bottle when last we went. There's a big tank in there with fresh salt water fish swimming about. Among other yummy and less strange thing, we ordered sashimi and the raw horse (which was actually quite tasty). A fish was grabbed from the tank right in front of us with much flapping about. A few minutes late it was on a plate in front of us, beautifully arranged with eyes still dilating and tail still twitching. A little creepifying but completely tasty.

Also on Friday, a package arrived from our moms containing birthday presents for Reese from mom and me, and his play station and games from home. Because of this, Saturday consisted almost entirely of playing Onimusha II. I don't remember the last time I was such a couch potato. We then went out for karaokee for two hours and I finally realized how fun it can be. I don't have to care about sounding good and it's a lot more fun when I can find songs that I know. We've now decided that every time we go we have to sing 'Phantom of the Opera', 'America' from Westside Story, and 'Supercalafragalisticexpiladosious' (I have no idea how to spell that).

Fun fun, and I'm now finding myself dangerously interested in playing/watching video games for hours on end.