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Tokyo, 2007.12.12

It's Mari's first day of maternity leave today. The kid's not due for some time,yet, but between her massive backlog of vacation days and the government's allotment of maternity leave, she's free! We spent the day attempting some much needed errands.

Meanwhile, I've been doing a fair bit of heavy work on my novel of late, and I seem to be inventing distractions for myself as I go along.

Here's what I found while looking for some corroborating info about a rock in our solar system called Sedra.

Don't say I didn't warn you: this stuff is mind-bending and very, very distracting. I had no idea that we had satellite photos of our own Martian rovers toddling about the surface!

rand()m quote

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo Da Vinci