My former computer was recently the victim of a virus and the entire hard drive had to be reformatted. Eeeeeeeee! One of the most invaluable links ever posted here (by Katse I believe) was the one that automatically did a search on Yahoo Japan for Gatchaman merchandise. Also posted at the same time was the link to the Excite translation of Japanese to English. The idea was to open the Excite translator and then paste the Yahoo Japan Gatch search url into it. It was wonderful (thanks, Kat!) but of course I've lost both links... I tried doing a forum search but no dice. Does anyone still have the links? (she asks piteously...)

The Yahoo japan one is in the links directory available from the main forum page. Or maybe this will work, I'm not sure since the url changes once the page appears http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search?sb=desc&desc=%a5%ac%a5%c3%a5%c1%a5%e3%a5%de%a5%f3&acc=jp&&f=0x12&at=true&alocale=0jp And the Excite translator - translation to English is the 2nd option/radio button. http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/

Bless you, Meridian...! P.S. Can we hope for the rest of "Creative Accounting" soon...? (Yes, that was the sound of a pot calling a kettle black...argh...)

My muse has gone walkabout. I wish it'd come back, I miss it. I've done no writing or artwork for months. It's not work stress or my bastard manager any more, since I've moved teams and things have gone quiet.

How about I send my kid to "inspire" you? (Translation- Stress you out)

No, no no! Being stressed out was what killed it in the first place. I'm just waiting for my head to get itself back into order so my creative side can come out of hiding.

meridian........i once went through something similar in regards to my creative side disappearing. Before it happened i was writing poetry every week, it was my way of saying how i felt without offending anyone...then i ended up living with a guy i thought i liked, at the start i was happy but in the end i felt trapped emotionally, i couldn't be who i really was.........i didn't have the space to think or write..... Bottom line is..........think about everything that is going on in your life and how it makes you feel. Allow yourself to feel happy or sad, about anything, nothing is insignificant.....if you allow yourself to feel things might start righting themself sooner rather than later..... It was only from the outside that i realised how bad things had gotten. The writing still doesn't come as freely as i still tend to go through periods where i don't allow myself to feel my life and just focus on trying to live it. Give it time........and have faith.........in something......lol...

Its a bit like me too, I was in the middle of recoding the site but I have had other things to deal with at the mo and to be fair I'm thinking of redoing it all again

Used to call writing productive procrastination. Now I've found the boards. Much more productive than laundry and kitchen and filing 3 months of bills so I can find all the stuff for taxes, and taxes, and sew ear on Mr. Bear and the rip on His PJ's bum (for the second time -- maybe he'll outgrow them before I get around to it). Worry not, Meridian, if they're not with you they're no doubt doing good things elsewhere.