Ibu Shinji

[desc: five minutes of the twilit area, mostly focused on the water bank to see the underwater glow; no drones or people in sight, just the sound of the water lapping up against the bank]

Sadly, one of the first camcorders I ever bought (one that takes an old technology called VHA) accidentally got broken while my parents were doing some cleaning up and moving things into storage that I don't need right now. While disappointing, it was mostly just for learning about the medium rather than actually use for filming. I'm going to tell them that it's fine as accidents do happen and it's not like they did it on purpose. My mom sent me a list of the items in each box so that if I do need something, I'll be able to let them know which box the item is in. Very useful. My order of new equipment arrived last month, so I've been spending time setting everything up and configuring it so that it works how I want it to. So far, it's working great, but the real test will come when I do some heavy editing for the next section of my documentary. Thank you to everyone who has participated in interviews.

Being at the mining outpost has been quite interesting. Gakuto sir let me watch his demolitions from a safe distance and I got some rather good footage. There seems to be an almost endless supply of gold. Tooyama sir literally found a gold mine. I am curious as to what will be done with it. Given that this is a new colony, I'm sure the scientists on Yomi will discover new and interesting ways to work with the material. I, for one, can't wait to see what they do. While I haven't been able to see what items, if any, arrived for me in the August drop, I did receive notice that my littler brother won at the Nationals swim meet in his events. Gold in the 400m freestyle and bronze in the 200m breaststroke. I'm insanely proud of him and I know the rest of the family is too. My mom spent a good 10 minutes giving me a play-by-play along with video of the matches. He gets some time off now from competition, but I know he's still going to be in the water at 0500 every day trying to get better.

I finished a round of edits just in time for the communications retrieval, so I sent my footage (raw and edited) along with transcripts to my editors back on Prime. I also completed five different promotional videos for Yomi/Izunagi, so please look forward to them, Renji-san. I attached my cost breakdown along with the appropriate paperwork. If I need to make any changes, I will be happy to do so. On the subject of communications, I received some from my family. My little brother made buchou of his high school's swim team. I am very proud of him. I was on a tennis team briefly in junior high, but I chose to shift my focus in high school and joined the AV Club instead. Akira has always been more athletic than me, so this does not come as a surprise. I sent back that I was proud and wished him luck in his upcoming tournaments. I did not tell them about the deck of trading cards I received with pictures of members of the colony. For one, I didn't know if I could and there wasn't time to ask. Secondly, some of them seemed a little risque. However, I have decided to use them for one of the side stories in my Yomi documentary about morale on base. Considering what I have witnessed and read since the cards were shared, I think they have been a great success morale-wise, but I do wish some people would take matters to their rooms for privacy. While I haven't experienced such things, I can say the idea of such public displays fills me with a sort of dread that I would very sincerely like to avoid if at all possible.