for how long more...

I finished work today at 7pm. It was till bright outside, the sun hadn't quite set yet and still had another 30 minutes to go before it slipped in behind the ferris wheel at Hep 5 and disappeared for the day. I stood outside the building I work in and wondered...what the hell do I do now?? The gym was closed because it was the 20th of the month eventhough I brought my gym gear with me, just out of pure habit. I realized that all I do is work. I know you think this is going somewhere all dark and gloomy, but it's not really. I have come to a point now where I have to decide do I just go and wait for work or stay, save more cash and go home when something comes up that I want. So, hence the title...for how long more.

On a brighter note, I spent last weekend birding with Kazu and Sakaguchi-san, heading up to Minoo Park to look for Copper Pheasant (dodgy photo above) and on Sunday, we went to take photos of a breeding pair of kestrels (Photo below). Prior to the Kestrel watch, we drove around Ogura but there was not much there apart from egrets and grey-heading lapwings. Birding in Osaka is now approaching the limit of summer excitement. That is, not a helluva lot around. I will use the summer time to explore the limits of my camera and travel to places I have yet to see in Japan.

Saturday morning I went into Umeda to look at more camera stuff and took some photos of the more interesting buildings. Umeda has some okay buildings but Tokyo has some spectacular buildings. I plan to go there again and spend a lot of time taking photos of those. I bet you all can't wait. JW is off to see Faithless in concert tonight with PW...lucky b'tards!!! I've never seen them live and they are one of my favourite bands. I did, however, get tickets to Summer Sonic which happens in Osaka in August. I also plan to get tickets of the IAAF World Championships which are also in August. The 100m final is on August 26th so I hope there are tickets left that. I need to do that on Saturday.

This Saturday I am going to watch Gamba Osaka play Tokyo in the last J League game of the season. Gamba Osaka are champions so it should be good. Oh, I almost forgot...I'm following in my good brother's footsteps and am on NSAIDs, painkillers and Vit B1 for the 10 days in the hope of ridding myself of back pain....I love trapped sciatic nerves.

Until next time, I bid you all adieu...

Carmo's Diets: This week, I have mostly been eating pharmaceuticals that are only sold in Japan and Argentina

Carmo's Birds: Copper Pheasant; Cattle Egret

Carmo's Birds for Byrdy: Riyo Mori