Life is a little stressful. But what else is new. I haven't heard any updates from Yuna in a long while; it may be time to remedy this development.

Robin is fine; we're edging closer and closer to marriage, which is a ridiculously big step for the two of us. it's all in the mind though, every passing emotion trying to get me, it's all a product of mental insecurity. It will pass in time. That get's me through. Oh yea.....and my Lord.

I have been introduced to a new character in my life. He is only known as the Samurai. He protected another friend of mine when she visited Japan during the latest bout of political unrest. The situation over there is not the best at the moment, but since the Fall that has been it's cycle. Like a rollercoaster, ups and downs, mass-producing lives, taking them at a moment's notice.

I fear my own country is headed down the same path, or at least a similar one. Year Zero is approaching. This Brave New World we're entering is still our own, yet it is slipping between the pads of our fingertips. I fear these things. I was made fun of for my love of semi-realistic, highly plausible, science fiction novels, movies, music, and anime. Now I see alot of the themes and scenarios starting to come true, given another 20 years or so. In my lifetime I will see the creation (and inevitable abusal) of consumer genetics. The country of America will most likely cease to exist as the one I knew as a child (we're already 25% socialist. that's never good). Technology is increasingly harder and harder to obtain (prices), which causes more and more to support the piracy industry (and not just downloadable media either), which causes social unrest.

But....I fear no evil, for my God is with me. And that is all the encouragement I need.

Until better days.

--fin.--