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(Some parts of this site are still under construction, but - hey - it's a fiction based site, so updates will be a little slow in coming!)

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02/06/08

Where does the time go? Talking to my instructer at the stables on Sunday, I asked him about his own horse, only to be told "Oh - she's turned out - in foal...". "But I thought she was still a baby herself," quoth I, remembering him breaking her in only a year or two ago... "She's 7," he replies... Did I lose 4 years? Obviously early onset senility is accompanying the early onset menopause...

Note to any Japanese leaners... when looking for an electronic dictionary (and you will, if you're even half way serious... you will...) Try the Casio Ex-word XD-GW9600 (or 9700... pretty much the same!). 40 dictionaries, an SD expansion slot that takes the Kanji Learner's dictionary (Nelson, dammit! NELSON!!! Give us English language natives the Nelson!!) and also allows you to read txt files on screen in any language... Hello, Project Gutenberg!! Not only can I look up practically any Japanese phrase I want, with kanji handwritten recognition, but I also carry around a couple of gigs worth of favourite classic novels and texts (including Dumas and Verne in French!!) for reading on the go. Never without reading material. Gotta love it...

Aside: Leiji Matsumoto's "Yousei-den" manga, based on a series of SF historicals by Ryo Hanmura - even kinkier sex scenes than Gun Frontier? Judging by the acrobatic 69-ing the heroine performs with a crucified samurai, I'd have to say that's an unqualified "yes"... Ladies and gentlegeeks, I'd say we have a new benchmark... p>

Will "Maskirovka" ever be finished: who knows... I've been ill a lot, and to add injury to insult, an old wrist injury has flared up rendering my right hand almost useless. I just had to buy an electric can opener for crying out loud... And I'm not 40 (yet). Besides, is ANYONE still reading this sh*t?? Hello! Is this thing on??

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"Standing Stones" image (c) Mags L. Halliday 2001