Here is a coool animated music video, its electronic music featuring asian instruments. I have no idea who the group is.
Be warned, the are mermaid boobies. Gasp!

Want to teach in Japan? Think twice.

Here is a great site, kind of like a blog, detailing an american's experiences while teaching english in japan. Its absolutely hilarious. Japanese are very strange people.
I am glad "Kancho" isn't something kids are into around here.

We lost our cell phone and...

A couple of months Anne lost our cell phone. We think she took it on a transfer and since then we haven't seen it. We don't use it for anything except to keep in the car for emergencies and other calls one occasionally has to make on the road. I don't think we have every used more than 15 minutes in a month.
So today I finally get around to going to the Bell Store (its exactly 2 blocks away) and do something about it.
It ends up that our plan had an upgrade option and I get a new phone for free. Then the phone I supposed to get was missing something and it was the last one so I get an even better one. So we ended up with this one, which is exactly what I was hoping for but doubted it would happen without a lot of money exchanging hands. We will probably start using it more, just so we can play with it :)
Not only that, but apparrently CAA members get deal when you get a $20/mo rate which will save us even more!
So everything working out very well. I think we better lose this phone in a couple of years so we can see what kind of deal we can wrangle then too.