I’m in the process of working out my travel to Australia, wading through the accounting office’s arcane rules and so on, all of which is taking time away from research and writing, but it looks like I will be arriving at Melbourne Airport on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 4, and departing on Saturday morning (the 8th). I’ll have to stay overnight in Seoul, S. Korea, and then arrive home to the family on Sunday morning.

Junko and Natsumi are going to have to take Lili the dog for 6am walks for six days! Will they survive?

Anyway, if by chance anyone reading this is a Monash student or otherwise lives in the area, let me know. I’d love to see you, and I hope to stop by a shop well-stocked with RPGs (that’s Role-Playing Games, not Rocket-Propelled Grenades, for the Homeland Security guy who has to read this), comics, and miniatures.