We Have Signal

Wakayama castle (about 45 min. from my house)
A rice field near my house. Not too different from Arkansas.

I have internet.

After waiting a month for high speed fiber optic cable internet service, and not receiving it, Itsumi and I found out we could use a cell phone network adapter (in this case, Soft Bank) to access the internet for the time being. It's not super fast, but it will do.

I wrote the two entries below at work one day when I had some free time, so please read them when you have some free time. Here is another picture:

This is a view of Ryumon-zan (Mt. Ryumon) from a few feet away from my apartment. When it cools off a little, I'm going to go hiking there.