This is a friendly place to share all of your questions and thoughts about the wonderful Japanese delicacy, takoyaki. I hope this can be a great resource for anyone who wants to learn how to make this delicious food.

We went to the carnival after dinner. I rode the caterpillars!

Today we went to Chuy’s for dinner. I ate chicken nuggets and french fries.

We ate dinner at Kevin and Eriko’s house tonight. We had nabe. Then we watched my Anpanman videos.

Above is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC1, which was shown at PMA 2004. It’s digital, but has manual-style controls in a rangefinder-type body. It’s pretty awesome, and I think it looks so cool!

Above is my Minolta Hi-matic G, which I use once in a while. Although it is not a true rangefinder camera, it takes great photos due to its fine lens, and I think it looks cool too! I can’t remember how much I paid for it, or even where I bought it, but I am glad I did. I have seen some sell on ebay for around $20US. To learn more about Minolta Hi-matic cameras, visit the Minolta Users Group Hi-matic page.

Last night we got a couple inches of snow! When I went to bed last night, I looked out our bedroom window and saw everything blanketed in white powder. It was about 2am, but it was so bright outside! This morning, the neighborhood kids were busy making snowmen and having snowball fights. By about noon, the snow had all melted away, but it’s still really cold outside! The picture above is looking down at our driveway and my car from Bay’s room.

It’s finally been announced!

Read a preview report and view photos of the new camera here.

This looks like it is going to be a very nice camera! The one thing that may make it really attractive to new buyers is that it has an anti-shake system built into the camera body, not in the lens like Canon’s system. That means that you will be able to enjoy the benefits of anti-shake with all the Minolta AF lenses. This system is already in Minolta’s Dimage A1 camera.

Mariko, onegaishimasu! It should be available around my birthday. 🙂

One of my favorite hobbies is photography. I posted a while ago about all my camera gear, and my preference for Minolta cameras. I, like many other Minolta-philes, have been dreaming about a Minolta DSLR for a long time, but Minolta doesn’t currently offer one, and has never said anything about producing one. Their current digital camera line-up consists of point-and-shoot models and their fixed lens Dimage 7, Z, and A series models. The other major camera manufacturers Nikon and Canon have a nice range of DSLR models, with their newest bodies coming in at around $1,000. Many Minolta users have jumped ship, tired of waiting for a true DSLR from Minolta, and switched to Canon or Nikon. But wait…

The rumor that is going around Minolta circles is that at long last, Minolta will be announcing their first true DSLR body this week at the PMA 2004 show. While many would see this development as too little too late, it would still be welcome to those of us who have not already sold our Minolta lenses to switch to a Canon or Nikon system. I have three Minolta AF lenses, and would love to be able to have a Minolta DSLR body to use them with. I am crossing my fingers, hoping that the rumors are true!

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I watched Anpanman this morning. I love the weekend