I like the frogs. They are plentiful during the rainy season. They don't make noise, they just come out of the bushes and flop around on the walkways running to and from my aparment. However they are also not so bright. I have come home many a night this week on my scooter, carefully weaving my way up the path at a slow crawl only to have a frog brazenly jump from the relative safety of the edge of the bushes to directly in front of my tire. I am yet to squish a frog, and I don't look forward to the inevitable day when it happens. They ain't small by any means, and scooter-flattened frog will not make or the walkway any better. Alas, yet another chapter in the battle of man vs. the elements.
In other news I've been cranking on the iaido report for Gosoke; checking all the web directories, search engines, and asking about on various bulletin boards for English information about Mugai-ryu. Most information seems to be from a certain Takada-sensei in Finland, and the pupils of the late Kuniba-sensei in the U.S. are also quite active, though it seems Kuniba-sensei created his own school based on Mugai-ryu...interesting how these things develop. We shall see how Gosoke feels about my report next week as I'll hand it over to Kanai-sensei on Monday.

Gosoke is the honorable reference to the head and/or leaders of Mugai-ryu. English equivalents like "16th Grand Master" just sound silly, so we'll stick with Gosoke.