It has now been 10 months or over 300 days or over 7200 hours or over 432000 minutes since Operation Visit Japan was started ^-^. Fortunately things continue to progress as planned with no unmanageable hiccups appearing so far.
Finally reconnected to the interwebs at work after moving over to a new building last month but it comes at a cost. All the computers have been updated to Windows 7 and have been locked down tight, if I need to update my flash player I have to ask a “network Administrator” for assistance which is uber annoying but I guess the good (I am not one of those) have to suffer for the bad. No streaming my cool new view at work (yet) but will “borrow” an admin account soon and release myself from bondage at the office.
October 2010 Report
$5 dollars in donations via the Chipin widget plus $100 from a super generous and supportive friend who wishes to remain anonymous plus $145 in net advertising revenue for the 3rd quarter of 2010 and the usual $100 from my salary this month adds $350 to the Operation Visit Japan fund in October. Add that to the totals from January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September bring the grand total to $2100 or 70% of the $3000 goal! I am now only $55 away from meeting my goal for donations, so if you haven’t donated already please do so soon via the chipin widget below or in the sidebar all you need is a paypal account.
October 2010 Donor List
- Gordon from Gordonswaby.com (second time donating!)
Christmas carols have taken over the radio already but I foresee a very boring season for me as I continue to focus on saving while hording friends of family for money for Japan instead of gifts to mark the season.
[japan]
Glad to see it’s going good for you! You’ll save up the rest in no time 😉
once I keep up my end of the bargain by continuing to save through Christmas I should be in the home stretch
We’ll see who’s gonna frist ogle at girls in Shinjuku 😛 Good luck, bro. I believe in your success 🙂
I “might” do that just cant allow Mrs Jamaipanese to find out!
This is great news. At this rate by the time i need to donate, you’ll have met the target and you won’t need me again…..lol
nice try Kurt, I’ll meet you at the airport when you get back to Jamaica and collect your donation there. You better have it, or else…
U goin good man. Make sure u take a crap load of pics
[jamaica] yokatta ne! Ganbare! When you planning to visit??? [japan]
Next Summer, depending on how things progress sometime between June and August.
[japan] wow that’s cool. Tell me when you come..
great! Will be sure to do that, I want to meet up with some photographers in Japan
very nice progress..very soon it will be time to turn those dreams into reality huh?! take care [japan]
…by the way..am still missing jamaica like crazy!! [jamaica]
hi5 Auntie Gena, thanks for stopping by. You’ll be back in Jamaica in no time dont worry.
have you got your itinerary all sorted yet? the places that you are going to see, the places you are going to stay, the souvenirs that you are going to buy me?
[angel]
I have an itinerary about 5 pages lonnnng! nothing finalized but I do have a large pool of places I’d like to go. I’ll chop it down to size when i finalize when I go and for exactly how long.
I’ve removed the ad blocker extension from my browser today because of this series of posts. I know how much it can help web developers, and since your goal is so much in line with mine (going to Japan) I’ve decided it’s a great way to help you out 🙂 (I really only wanted to block popups anyway, and since Google Adsense doesn’t really use popups that I’ve seen, an ad block is kind of over the top.) I wish you the best of luck with your trip! I’ve only been to Japan once, which was way back in 2006. It was a 6 week foreign exchange trip in my junior year of high school to Okinawa prefecture. I enjoyed every minute of it 🙂 Best of luck to you, and you can bet I’ll be back quite often checking your site for updates, you’ve got me snagged now!
always happy to have a new reader on board! Hope to see you around participating and commenting on posts. Cant wait to get to Japan next year.