Before I get any more frantic emails...

Last Tuesday, I worked all morning to update my blog. I had several long entries from the past couple of weeks, and quite a few photos that I had preparred to upload. After working on uploading all of this new information for a while, I proceeded to attempt to change the settings on my blog. After doing so, I clicked what I thought was the "save settings" button but turned out to be the "delete this blog" button on the Japanese browser. I think there was a rather inconspicuous "do you want to permanently delete this blog" box that popped up, but since it was in Japanese also I unknowingly clicked away.

The Blogger people have yet to contact me after a week, so I am assuming the last eight months of archives are gone. I, in the spirit of American perseverance during hard times, will get past the loss of my creative properties and continue documenting the extraodinary journey of the Chicago Man in Japan.

I should shortly post several of the most recent entries and photos that I was trying to post last week. They will appear below shortly if they are not already posted.