Kappei-sama,happy 42nd;and though a couple of other lower-profile seiyuu also share your birthday(Shouzou Iizuka who was born on this date 74 years ago and Youko Asada who was born on this date 38 years ago),it is remembered by most seiyuu fans as your birthday.So enjoy it wisely,just make sure if you have a big gathering to celebrate that Michiru Kiryuu isn't present,onegai?

Speaking of Splash Star,either the bitrate for the downloaded fansub episodes is too high(higher than 768 kbps)or PSP Video 9 is useless,because I can't convert the episodes stored on a 1 GB MS Duo from .avi to the PSP-compatible MPEG-4 format.Either I'll have to obtain commercially-sold PSP media managing software or get a second MP3 player that plays video,but I'm not in a hurry to do the latter anytime soon as long as my current one continues to work fine...

Well,I've nailed a couple of Shobunsha-published bilingual atlases(one of Japan and one of greater Tokyo)from an eBay Buy It Now listing.As with their Japanese-only one I have,their cartography and scales are superior to Kodansha's more globally-available bilingual atlases...