So, I just experienced my first mini-earthquake since landing. My entire apartment shifted sideways for a split second. It was very wierd. I braced myself for more but none came. Growing up in Canada where hardly anything happens other than being pounded by snow, the earth moving underneath you is an odd notion to come to terms with. It's dirt, man. It's supposed to stay still.

My new Maxon tracing machine came by courier today. I bought it at Comiket a couple weeks ago and it finally arrived. I call it a tracing machine but it's not like it traces backgrounds and images for me. I wish it did, though. I've been going ghetto-style, using plates of glass with a lamp underneath, these past few years so when I saw it being sold for very cheap I couldn't help but buy it. Hopefully, this will help me pump out better and tighter backgrounds.

TAK