A CALM AND EQUITABLE MAN

Several things contribute to my sanity. A mouse, dictionaries, tobacco pipes, bucket loads of tea, and Japanese Schoolgirls. Last item first: Akane Tendo, a totally violent chick who kicks perverts (all males) through the roof. Ranma½, a very confused young man who uses his schoolgirl persona to score eaties and snackiepoos. And Kagome, a modern-day Tokyo schoolgirl battling evil in fifteenth century Japan, accompanied by a tempestuous dog daemon (Inuyasha) and a juvenile fox daemon (Shippo) as well as a flea and a raccoon. Plus a perverted monk and a witch. As, in a way, we all are.
And let's not forget about the eaties and snackipoos.
Not just Ranma½. All of them.
It's universal.

Tea and pipes are self-explanatory.
So are dictionaries.

The mouse is both 'Mousie', one of the stuffed animals (who has revealed himself quite the pervert), as well as the plug-in mouse for my computer. If cell-phones were mouse-compatible as well as similar to the old-fashioned rotary with a handheld listening / speaking horn, I might already have one. Excuse me while I use this handy table as a temporary work-station .......

ANOTHER JAPANESE SCHOOL GIRL
Ayuma Kasuga (from Azumanga Daioh)

Gotta battle evil in Sengoku-era Japan.
I'm sure you understand.


You must know that Ayumu Kasuga ("Osaka-san") is smoking either a Charatan or a Danish-made pipe of some sort. Possibly even an Eltang.
Probably not a Ben Wade, even though it looks somewhat like it.

I have no idea what tobacco she's smoking. Conceivably something fairly Latakia heavy, as full Balkans tend to appeal to vibrant young people (such as myself once), but the Japanese have a thing for British stuff big-time, so it might actually be an old-fashioned Virginia Perique compound.

Goes great with a cup of tea.


Maybe Samuel Gawith's St. James flake.
Either that or Orlik Golden Sliced.

Strong Assam tea.



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