Last Gasp for learning Japanese

I loaned out all my Japanese books to a friend who was interested in learning.  As usual this got ME thinking about learning Japanese again.  I even looked at the latest edition of the how-to book I like on Amazon.  But as I thought about it, I realized I should once again pass on learning Japanese.  First of all it fails my litmus test for learning a cool new writing system: Can I use it to write my passwords?  Unfortunately Japanese is phonetic, so there's no equivalent for the letter V or writing capitols.  I admit this is a pretty flimsy reason, but it's either a tip of the iceberg kind of thing or a red herring.   I'm not sure which.  Perhaps, someday I'll pick Japanese up, but for today I'd rather spend my time doing useful things like writing inane blog posts and learning elvish. 8)   

The main reason I'm going to pass is I want to be devoting my time to telling stories.  Because more than anything else that's really what I want to be about.  I'm just easily distracted by shiny new concepts.  I guess I'd better get back to it.