All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2011.

I'm your host, GPD, here in Tokyo, Japan, and Wombat, you cannot beat that introduction.

I wasn't going to try.

I don't think I could hold a candle to it.

Thank you.

At least you admit, the inferiority.

Yes, I know when I've been beat, and I've been beat good by the best. Yes, by the best. The best at what? That is the question. That's a good question. Welcome to 2011. Shipwreck, you are also here, a hearty welcome for you, too. Thank you. It's been a good year so far.

Yes, it has.

And this is our first show in like three weeks?

Two weeks, really.

We didn't do a show for two weeks, and this would be the third week.

I see.

New Year's is sort of a big deal here in that people get a lot of time off so i've had the the wife and kid

home for quite a while i'm sorry no we've we had a lovely lovely time and uh and now we're back

now that everyone's back to work and school and i'm back home alone lonely oh yeah so uh yeah what did you do for New Year's, Wombat?

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

We went out for dinner, actually, with my parents, mostly because they're good at watching the baby while my wife and I can go out for dinner.

And we went for a really nice sushi dinner, actually, where we had this thing, this thing that they made for Christmas called a Christmas roll,

where they pile the sushi in a pyramid, you know, the roll in a pyramid,

and then covered it with like a seaweed salad and crab.

So it looked like a Christmas tree, and it was...

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