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Yesterday was Fumie's dad's 60th birthday, which is a major life event in Japanese culture, and so this evening we had a party for him. Among the vast quantity of food was a fish called a tai (鯛), which is served at auspicious events due to the somewhat corny reason that its name is the final sound of omedetai, "auspicious". (It probably felt much less corny ages ago when the tradition began, because back then, a gift of food was a true gift indeed.)

Anyway, on Fumie and my [...]

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Anthony sometimes has homework from his "English Kids" activity at his kindergarten. Despite the Nikon D700's horrible focusing screen, I seem to have gravitated to really thin depths of focus lately, perhpaps because with the bad focusing screen I can't really see just how thin it is. Anyway, I sapped a couple of shots of Anthony doing his homework...

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