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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Sunday, July 21, 2002 |
 Today's natto: black-bean natto. Very good, but I think on the whole I prefer the normal variety...
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Another item of news was that today is one year since the incident in Akashi when 11 people died on a footbridge after a fireworks display.
It's incredible how quickly a year passes; I remember mentioning this in a letter to a friend away on the JMSDF training cruise, and it seems like only yesterday.
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It was on the news that today is tsuyu-ake- the end of the rainy season- for the Chugoku region. Fair enough, we've had pleanty of rain recently, but overall, I reckon it's been a relatively dry rainy season. Obviously little rain can lead to problems later on during the summer, but purely personally, the less rain the better. Not that even a dry rainy season is particularly pleasant, though...
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Breakfast Show Staple Notable weather
I've just caught the weather forecast, and tomorrow (like today) is forecast to be mosho- stupidly hot. Great.
Also of note is the fact that typhoons 9 and 11 are looming menacingly to the south of Japan. No word as to whether they'll head this way, but it's something to keep an eye on. Typhoon 9, in particular, looks huge.
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Today I did... absolutely nothing. I made a long gin and tonic, switched the fan to 'high', and reread P.D. James. A great Sunday.
It would have been even better if I'd been in my washitsu with the air-conditioning on, but it's not good to be in air-conditioning all day, I'm told. Not that it bothers me at work much, but there I'm not paying for the electricity... ;-)
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Web sites worthy of mention...
A listing of the top 500 sites on the web.
Hmmm. There are a heck of a lot of Korean sites in there...
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Web sites worthy of mention...
EVHEAD, the blog of one of the creators of Blogger.
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Web articles worthy of mention...
A well-written and absorbing article about blogging, its history and importance.
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
spittlebug sails, bleak
family flailing leaning
strutting doors raining
(Err... what's a spittlebug?)
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:21:54 pm.
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