as part of daily maint, where i read midnight logs from 20+ systems etc, i scan my spambox to make sure nothing falls through, and indeed catch one or two daily. but the spam is a source of great amusement. the internet is an wondrous place. the number of messages offering help for the serious bedbug problem has been dropping off recently. so there really is hope we are winning the war on the bedbug front. whew! fedex has so many dell xps laptops in transit to me that storing them looks to become a serious problem. anyone with some space in a storage locker near jimbocho? zita would really like to take advantage of all the free lobsters, but there is no red lobster we know of in tokyo [0]. as tokyo has everything, i am sure i could find one. but will they take an american coupon? a lot of russians are still trying to draw my attention to something which is obviously important. anyone out there read russian? i hope it is not something critical, like news on the bedbugs in moscow. we would love to take advantage of all the great clearance sales on fords, but the cost of garaging a car, especially a large one, in tokyo is a bit steep. randy, who has to run out to the accountant to keep up with all the fraud monitoring reports on my bank accounts and credit cards in the caymans.