Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

my friend baku is inspirational to me in the sense that he gets to live in two spots at once. and he gets to live in two spots more or less i want to live in: Tokyo and LA. but that situation along with a lot of Japanese women's question posed to me centers around where i will be living in the long term. i've finally decided: both places. ideally, what i'd like is to get a permanent place here. the purpose is mostly lifestyle where i can work and eventually raise a family here (in Tokyo). specifically, i don't know where yet. but hopefully in a few years, i'll be able to pick a place up. for my retirement home, i'd like to choose either Las Vegas or LA. I really dislike what LA has become, moreso with California since the Governator took over. however, i've been thinking that i need a retirement home as well as a vacation spot. what better place than vegas? sure, i can't afford a home yet not over there, but again in a few years, i hope to save up enough money to pick something up over there. i'd prefer to retain my parents' home in LA. but it's been so damaged that i don't know if it's worth salvaging. what i'd like to do this year is save some cash up if possible (through my bonus if that comes around) and dunk a part of that into my parents' home just to redo the roof. later i'd fix up the plumbing. but all this depends on how cruel Mother Nature is to my mom. if the house can hold out another year, i'm certain i can at least fix up the roof.