R will probably make super-ultra-kabillion-mile badge (of honor or shame?) again this year, unless Delta rewrites the rules of the game in the merger talks. Would be nice if all those miles could be used for trips to NZ or Australia, but I'm not going anywhere that's not on Highway 89 for a while anyway.
He bought me these little softies in Nagoya on his last trip with Bryan. Apparently the two of them had a quite fine time shopping the vast collection of Japanese licensed cartoon character merchandise, completely out of any cultural context, other than that the Japanese seem to love the genre. These two characters could be mortal enemies for all we know, although not likely. Could those be anything other than little friendly faces? Before I make up a highly improbable back-story (escapees from a exploratory space program, running away to avoid a certain doom like poor Laika), does anyone know anything about them?
I found them on Friday, when I was packing up stuff to take to the Photowalk. I meant to stow them in with the Christmas stuff. It wasn't until I grabbed the
