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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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Saturday, October 26, 2002 |
 Gokurakutombo
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Evening
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Just across from the pachinko parlour in Konan (the Las Vegas of Etajima) there's a very odd shop. It's a bathroom- and kitchen-fittings shop, but- and this is the strange thing- it's never the same kitchen-fittings shop. It's a kitchen shop, and then a week later the shop is empty, closed, derelict. The next week... it's a kitchen shop, and the following week... well, you see the pattern. Right out of the X-files
Further investigation is needed, methinks, but I know this for sure even now: somebody, somewhere, is making a fortune out of shopfitting...
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This probably goes without saying, but about ten minutes after we split up and I got home, the rain stopped and the sun came out. Typical. I set up my kotatsu (I did have the excuse that while it was raining it was damn miserable and cold, just right for snuggling under a kotatsu), and then read the internet for a while, but taking advantage of the weather, I biked to Izumi to get food (including, of course, Mos Burger and Mister Donut- the Honey Old-fashioned doughnuts are superb).
This probably goes without saying, but when I was about halfway home, it started raining. I didn't quite get soaked, but I came pretty close. And- of course!- mere seconds after I got home, the sun came out again...
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As it happened, I needn't have refused Takedomi-kun's offer of a drink at his lodgings last night. I was at the kominkan for nine o'clock, ready to help with the preparations for the festival (moving tables, etc., cleaning round the shrine), but the torrential rain put paid to the plans.
So we stood outside the kominkan, and waited for the ku-cho (the Head of Washibe Ward) to come. And waited. And waited. In the end, we got too cold, so we commandeered a room inside the kominkan, and waited. And waited. And finally, about half past ten, the ku-cho turned up, and announced that we couldn't do anything while it was still raining, so we might as well all go home. Great. What a waste of an hour and a half. And more to the point, what a waste of a Saturday morning lie-in!
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:51:20 pm.
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