Back in Business...

Well, I’m finally back online. After my laptop, which I kindly care for and often praise, took a major crap last week. I was once again facing the loss of major data, and wondering about my luck with computers. It turned out to be a manufacturing defect that Apple was willing to fix with few questions. Of course, like everything else here, it proved a bit difficult arranging for the actual repair in Japanese. Fortunately, a teacher looking to kill time at work was happy to help. So here I go with an attempt to update what’s been going down…