Booty

Another day closer to Japan and many more items have been purchased to help make the year all it ever dreamed it could be (because years dream...)
For me this meant trying to find a new suit that is appropriately corporate, in the fairly likely event that I find work teaching English at a place like Berlitz, etc. Rachel got a fancy case for her Kindle, which was an important item because her need to read is voracious enough to have posed a hazard to an unprotected e-reader. This was paired with an external hard drive for her important, highly protocoled, research data that she will be collecting over the next year. My bounty from the same electronics store was a portable keyboard for my tablet (on which I'm writing this post).
There was also a backpack purchase, because my North Face backpack has been driving me a little bonkers lately. So I opted for a more basic Jansport and will be letting Rachel take over the North Face bag.
So basically we are fully equipped for Japan, though the packing and moving out bits are moving slowly...