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Biannual update! :D Birthday was two days ago. I appreciate the people who came to my page and commented ^o^. I had soooo much sugar... Halloween candy... donuts... and then a sundae that night... And the first two were at work! But since it was right in the middle of the week, it was rather uneventful and I didn't do much because work -> exhaustion. Still great though >W Anyone play "The Simpsons: Tapped Out"?

So I figured out one of the reasons why it seems to become increasingly impossible to keep up with everything being generated on the Internet. (yes, one of the reasons is that I follow more stuff, sign-up for more things, etc.) But there is also just *a lot* more. Here are some statistics to illustrate the point. 1997 - I first connected to the Internet as a wee lad - number of Internet users: 70 million (Dec) 2000 - started playing Half-Life online (waaayy too young for that, but it was funnnn XD) - number of Internet users: 361 million (Dec) 2005 - started high school - number of Internet users: 1.018 BILLION (Dec) 2009 - started colle

Much uncertainty comes with this new year. Hopefully things will start getting resolved, because I'm sick of the uncertainty! Not many exciting travels lately; probably won't be able to go back to Japan for awhile unfortunately; I'll just have to get those lovely Comiket doujins from 3rd parties. Samantha wishes everyone a happy new year and will try to forestall Emily's attempts at eating you and ultimate plans of world domination.  Dan continues to try to maintain some semblance of normalcy with everyone (completely impossible). You will most certainly be seeing more of Sammy. Emily and Dan will hopefully also be able to make some appear