Delicious fajitas, too bad i didn't have any tortillas.

Pics from playing with the band at the carnival at the old folks' home in town. It was fun.

Matsuri pics from this week's Matsuri. This was the rowdiest that they got. Not too overdone like the naked festivals in other parts of Japan. Very tame.

Pumpkins near the Roadside Station in Niseko-aka the best farmer's market i have ever been to. Basically a buck per pound or less for most vegetables. 

Yo-yo's and Mount Yotei.

Not much has been going on at the schools this week with field trips for the second and third years and the town festival going on. I put up pictures from the band thing that i played at last weekend. It was fun.

I think i got rejected from the credit card that i applied for that would basically have been my visa debit card linked to my bank account, as per how Japanese band cards work. I will check on it when i go to the post office next time since there was multiple meanings for the one thing they had in the letter they sent me, either that they will wait on it or that they had passed on issuing me a card. I will have to just transfer money to my bank account in the US and deal with all the fees and rate exchanges so i can pay for my hotel and musical tickets for New Years in London. It is so difficult sometimes with money and all this stuff and getting rejected because i am a foreigner, most likely, for a card.