Kawakami

Waiting sucks. I have a sword on the way, in the mail, and I got it with a tracking number. The thing about the tracking number...it's been four days since the last update, which says that it's been accepted at the senders post off ice. ...That's it. From four days ago. FOUR DAYS! It's driving me nuts! I mean, come on, USPS! Throw me a bone, here!

Really, though...I suppose it's not their fault. They're busy and all, so I have to give them some slack...but still. It sucks. I don't ...

Elvis?!

Wait...no. It was menuki.

Menuki are those pretty little things under the wrap on Japanese swords. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and a good number of materials (Though it's almost always metal of some sort; iron, steel, copper, silver, shakudo, shibuchi, etc.). Sometimes they're animals, sometimes they're plants, sometimes they're people, sometimes they're things like mon (crests), weapons, buildings, or simple shapes.

Now that we have ...