Another month, another post?

Unfortunately, my picture management program turned out to be bit faulty and I spent next few weeks fiddling with it. So no pictures to show here, yet..

Due to knee pain, finally decided to see a doctor few weeks ago. My Japanese hospital experience was mostly positive; the initial diagnosis of my knee cost ~20 euros, MRI scan of it 50? euros and the final telling of the diagnosis about 10? euros. Something or other in the knee was ruptured apparently, but it should heal on it's own, and I got some assorted medicines to help with the pain (if any). That's the impression I got anyway, as the doctor wasn't incredibly keen on speaking in English and my Japanese wasn't quite efficient enough. Still, considerably more fun experience than in Finland, as 3 trips total cost 80? euros, and I waited maybe total of 15 minutes..


Not much else to note; bought new camera lens (Canon EF 24-105mm f4L), ordered trip to Finland (15th of December - 8th of January), and apparently will be spending the next two weeks in good old US of A. Still debating if I should buy a cheaper camera to drag around the seedier parts of NY, as SLR makes me look too touristy/robbable? Hmm. Panasonic Lumix DMC LX-2 looks promising, as it is capable of taking RAW pictures, has manual settings, image stabilization and fairly compact size.

Pictures coming up before the next week's US trip, really!

What else..

- 23th of September - Tokyo Game Show - was quite fun
- New hobby: bouldering (climbing up walls with hand/footholds and no equipment)