I have been running so hard lately at work that I feel I am behind on 'life'. I have email inboxes overflowing, film and images backing up to process, and blog posts going unwritten. Now it is Sunday morning after a nice 14 hour night of sleep and a piping hot Grande Americano I am ready for some digital image processing, filming scanning, blogging, and catching up on my thoughts while listening to some music. Like many people I go to Starbucks a few times a day to fuel my day. I always drink the same thing - Grande Americano with a splash of skim milk. Look at the calories differences based on the choice you make. I am not the world's most fit person but I take a 'offsetting' approach to manging my weight. If I skip 'x' I can eat 'y' because at the end of the day I have a maximum of 'z' that I can intake.

As a good friend told me 'move more eat less' so if you want to increase 'z' more. I dropped 15 kilos (35 pounds) a bunch of years ago and this methodology has helped me keep it off. There is no secret to losing weight. It is just basic math. I always think of these trade offs when I am ordering.

Tomorrow morning I get to go to the Tokyo Immigration Office. You may remember my trip there back in June. It took about 2 times longer than I expected. They told me I would get a post card in the mail telling me to come back. I did about 2 times longer than they said. Lets see how much of my life this sucks up tomorrow. The good news it is a completely different route than I usually travel so it gives me some great opportunities for photography. From my last trip...and yes these numbers were being called in order.

The great news is my friend Chris Handley from Hong Kong is coming to Tokyo and we will go shooting and go to dinner tomorrow. I haven't seen Chris since we went for a 6 hour walk across Hong Kong when I was there at the end of May. I find Chris a very fascinating person to speak with and I am looking forwarding to a full day of shooting tomorrow between my trip to Immigration Office and my evening with Chris. I love the movie posters in Japan. You don't even need to know what they say. They are entertaining by themselves.

I love that I live in Tokyo. I love shooting in the subways. I could just ride them all day and find plenty of subject matter to shoot.

I have been getting some great images of Mt Fuji from my new office... I can't wait to see snow covered Fuji-san this winter!

I can see my old office out my window...off in the distance past my helicopter pad.

I love this poster...to prevent people from falling on the tracks they installing these automatic doors. Apparently giant teddy bears, silly hairdos, high heels and being 'bitched slapped' by your girlfriend are the leading causes.

daily fuel....

I have been listening to a lot of rock lately. My company has hired the Red Hot Chili Peppers to play an upcoming conference in San Francisco. Aside from brushing up on my RHCP I am listening to Staind and Metallica's S&M. Both of them are incredible albums. I'll be going to San Francisco from September 11th-22nd. I am going to try to schedule a few photowalks so be on the lookout!

Amazing 100 people rode their bikes to this store...well not exactly. A long post coming on the bike parking situation in Tokyo. Another area I am quickly becoming the 'World's forecast authority...'