Today Mariko surprised me by making us takoyaki for breakfast! We didn’t have any tako, but we substituted with cheese and sausage. It was so good!

I am eating senbei while Mommy is cooking sanma.

As I was driving to work today, I saw a car with California plates, and noticed the registration stickers on it. Here in Texas, our registration stickers go in the corner of the windshield. I looked at mine and noticed that they still said “03”. October ’03. Hmmm. I could have sworn I put the new sticker on. I am usually pretty good about that. Then I remembered putting the sticker in my glove compartment in September, thinking I would stick it on on the weekend. Then I forgot about it. I guess I will do it tonight. Four months is not that late, is it?

I first stumbled across Mark Skorji’s photos while searching for supercub pictures. I followed a link from his website to the photos he has on TrekEarth and was blown away. I like to look at them every now and again. They are really inspiring!

Bay has a cold. Now I have a cold. Mariko has a sore throat. Ugh.

My excuse for not posting in a whole week is: I have been very busy. The truth is that I have been lazy as well. Anyways, work has been crazy. I got four projects that I am working on, two of them are pretty fun, the other two are just normal work. No opinion on those two. The interesting one is some design work which is always good to do. At home Mariko and I have been busy getting our finances in order, and they are looking good. 🙂 We are also preparing for the arrival of our baby, which is due on April 3. Mariko thinks he will arrive early, though.

Yesterday (Superbowl day) I spent the morning in the backyard pulling up weeds and laying down mulch. It is starting to look good again. We have five main areas in our backyard (not including the lawn) and I have finished fixing up two of them. We have this strip along the back fence that always loses dirt and mulch when it rains. I think I am going to buy a few bags of rocks to lay down there instead of dirt. It will actually look pretty nice. I finished my yard work at about noon, then relaxed the rest of the day. For dinner, we had a nice Superbowl meal of Hot Wings and soup. I had fifteen wings. Heh. The funny thing is, we don’t have local tv channels with our satellite dish, so I didn’t even watch the game. I’m not much of a football fan anyways. I can’t wait for baseball season to start…