CosBar

it's been a while...story of my life these days, if you know what I mean. So, the last couple of weeks have been eventful, sort of. First of all, to update you on my previous post, I couldn't get the external hard drive to work again on my newly updated Leopard OS-running Mac. I spent 90 minutes at the Genius Bar in Apple Store here in Osaka but not even those Mac-Geniuses could solve the problem. I'll just have to wait for Seagate to release a fix for this. That meant that a new external hard drive compatible to Leopard was purchased and all is good again...in a sense. I did lose some photos (not a lot) and all my tv shows which sucks arse!!

Secondly, my beloved EOS-1D Mark III (aka The Wife: high maintenance and expensive to accessorize) had to go in for a nip/tuck job and get her secondary mirror fixed, which was faulty from day of manufacture. I was without the beast for a week but finally it arrived back yesterday and I'm all happy again and able to take some photos and torment you all with bird pics next week, ahaha.

Thirdly, I went to a CosBar with PK and his JP friends last Friday night and had a great time. We went to an Izakiya first for some grub and then onto the CosBar. This basically consists of a place selling liqour and costumes to get dressed up in. The bar straff also were dressed up, mostly in nurses uniforms. Not one from shying away from a laugh (stop laughing) I got dressed up a in a little Santa dress and war-type cap. PK was a cheer leader and the JP friends ranged from busty nurses to slinky dress-thingy. THe other JP randoms who were also dressed up thought the sight of a gaijin in Cos mode was hilarious so we posed for many, many photos with them. The random thing about this experience is that the bar is situated in the underground shopping area under Osaka station!!! One of the busiest hubs in Japan rail network! Great fun and definitely a good memory from Japan.

Now, the weekend is upon us again. Tomorrow, or rather in a couple of hours, I leave for Mie prefecture to twitch a mega in Japan (Lesser Whitethroat) and then on Sunday it's off to Biwa-ko to see Steller's Sea Eagle and hen harrier...nice. At least I'll twitch a truly wild bird and not some hand-reared wader with a gammy leg (Ya can't tick that KP boys, ya just can't tick it!!! If you do, the Spotted Crake goes on the list, yaaaahhhhoooooo!!!!).

Sin e for now. More posting about the Christmas experience in Japan later...

Carmo's Diet: This week, I have mostly been eating Prawn Palak

Carmo's Birds: nothing yet, but maybe... (still 337 for JP)

Carmo's Birds for Byrdy: the chick on the 6th floor....heaven