Eva Mendes is my desktop background. I do not know if that is grammatically correct to say it that way, but I have her picture on my desktop. Nothing fancy, just a nice classy picture basically showcasing her amazingly beautiful face. I like to tell people that she is my wife and she is just on vacation shooting her next movie, but we all know that is a lie. However, Eva if you are reading this, I would just like to say that I would give up all my worldly possessions to have just one date with you. Maybe that will be abstract enough for her to Google and find me somehow. I will let you know how it turns out.

I would like to tell some fantastic story about what happened to me today, or just in general that people would want to read, but today I just do not feel the passion.

I noticed that the Consumer Electronics Show is going on in Las Vegas this week. One of the things I noticed was a "Sidekick-Like" phone introduced from HTC. The same company has been making cell phones for companies here in Japan. In fact I was going to buy the exact same phone that is now finally available in the states. I do not remember the exact model and provider they were promoting, but just noticing the phone made me laugh a little. The second phone that I noticed was the LG TV Phone. Basically the idea is that you can get local television on your mobile phone and turn it into a small television. The screen rotates ninety degrees and comes with a pull out antenna for a better reception and viewing angle. The same type of phone in Japan has around 10 different models and the streaming video is usually in high definition. Panasonic makes the phones here and there VIERA style LCD screens look very nice on the phone.

The second thing I noticed at this years CES was the explosion of VIZIO televisions. Apparently VIZIO is a small subsidiary company of FUJI. The company's 42-inch plasma television received the second highest rating of all television falling only to Panasonic's 42-inch ultra high definition $3,000 televesion. The VIZIO comes in around $900. Normally I am a name brand guy when it comes to electronics and when I first noticed VIZIO they did not strike me as high quality. However with reviews like the ones they were given at CES, I think I might need to go and pick up a new VIZIO television.

My last rant has to be about the local television here. We are given the AFN, or Armed Forces Network. Basically, all the popular shows from the states are recorded and AFN replays them for us at our convenient time. The worst part about AFN is the fact they only play military commercials that always have some stupid message about our different facets of the military. I do not think that I have been in Japan long enough to be aggravated by these commercials but I reached the point I am dying for a normal commercial. I really could care less if the commercials is about Domino's. So if AFN producers are reading this, please just give us a few normal commercials every now and then!

I am sure that I could come up with more things to write about, but I promised that every blog would NOT be about something negative. I have been feeling really negative lately and I apologize for that, but I have to make it my mission not to bring all my millions of readers down with me.