Well this morning I was lucky enough to win an auction for a foil Japanese Champions of Kamigawa Stone Rain.  This means I need only two cards to finish Japanese and only six cards to finish the set.

This is of course assuming the Italian Stone Rains ever come.  Which by now, I think, is unlikely.  In another 7 days time, if they still haven't arrived, I'm going to mark them as missing again which will jump the need list back up to 11. 

There is a maintenance window scheduled tonight on BlogHarbor, running from 10 PM to 8 AM.  During that time The Stone Rain Project will not be accessible.  Please check back in the morning.  Here's the relevant portion of the message from BlogHarbor which I received a week or so ago:

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I can already tell.  There is no eBay Japan, and my previous biggest lead for Japanese cards apparently has no interest in participating this time around.

I sent out 3 feelers on eBay for Japanese, and also 8 feelers on MOTL (to members living in Japan).

I sent out a dozen feelers on eBay.es (Spain) this morning.  So far the responses have all been duds, but hope springs eternal, and there's always Mexico if Spain doesn't pan out.

My feelers on eBay.it netted me a lead who says he has all the Italian Stone Rains I needed!  A deal has been negotiated and the cards are officially on order.  When they get here Italian will be done.  That's pretty good for the language which I was worried about 4 days ago.

Japanese and Spanish are still in dire straights.  Going to look into those soon.

Ebay has sister sites around the world, and apparently if you are registered on one you are registered on others.  So today I went to eBay.it, the home of eBay in Italy and searched on Pioggia di Pietre.  I found a bunch of sellers selling stone rains, and a couple had some of the ones I wanted (but shipped only to Europe.)  So I sent out 6 feelers on Italian eBay this morning to sellers who had stonies in stock.  Hopefully something will come of that!

Followup: My Italian eBay feelers have netted me a lead in Italy who says he has 5 of the 6 Italian Stone Rains I need and possibly some of the Japanese!  Stay tuned!