Yesterday I spent some time at Storables getting some racks for the new laundry room, but the more unique thing I did was watch my next door neighbor testing for his black belt in Aikido. He did pretty darn well from my perspective and I heard the testers gave him pretty positive feedback as well.

I’m planning on going to Japan with my mom and my sister again this fall, and we’re trying to decide whether to skip Tokyo and stick to Western Japan. I was never a big fan of Tokyo, but it’s actually fun to visit as well. I guess if we fly into the Kansai International airport (which I’ve actually never been to) we can avoid a long train ride. But that also means we miss seeing some friends in Tokyo and I can’t make my yearly pilgrimage to Akihabara Electric Town. What to do…