Quaterly Report

Fellow investors.....

HA! Well, companies do it, so I figured since it has been three months since I arrived here in Osaka, I should make a three month review, you know, for posterity's sake.

So, while I can dispense with the letter to everyone about how well the company is doing, how much profit, who we squeezed out due to downsizing (I'm sorry, I mean, rightsizing--- whatever the hell that means), you know, the usual corporate blather, I must make a point by point of all the goals I reached by moving the plant to Japan's western shores:
*gotten out of the sink hole that is Baltimore
*seen Japan
*seen deer in Japan
*passed probation at work, found that the job is alright
*been to Tokyo
*found the Magic Store in Osaka, made friends there
*worked hard and have learned a LOT of Japanese
*gotten the approval of my Mom and Dad for being here, as per a
conversation last night about how they really think that, for
the first time in a long time, I am focused on improving myself
*made some really good quality friends here (AB and RM, not to
mention D-Boy)
*have really started to think about the direction of my life, and
it involves linguistics and/or ESL
*have come deeply to understand how much I still need to work on
me
*Realized how wonderful you guys are.

And, like every good company, here are some projections for the next quartile:

*most likely will go again to Tokyo
*arranged to go to Beijing in the Spring, Singapore in February
*Rock on the Japanese test I have Friday,
*Go to Kyoto afterwards, see some museums
*visit Baltimore/Springfield around May 18, 19 for a few weeks
*keep on learning Japanese
*collect more wood-block prints
*sell stuff on E-Bay---oh, yeah, that's right! E-Bay -o- rama!
*meet more Japanese people

Feasible goals, I think.

To sum, the fourth quarter of 2005 was a success, and we hope to find continued opportunities of reward and profit in the first quartile, 2006.