August 20, 2007

• Ahhh, the house is a mess and my plants are not in the best shape in this heat, and I am too tired to care.  It takes too much energy to get annoyed over anything.  Maybe that is not a bad thing.  I also have nasty itchy rash on my arm that looks like Google pictures of shingles.  Off to the dermatologist today.  My renewed passport arrived in the mail.  My, my, they are trying to make it more difficult to falsify with all those different pictures on every page!  Now I gotta drag my self into Shinagawa to have my permanent resident stamp and reentry permit transferred to the new passport and then to Inagi City Hall to have my new passport number entered in my records.  I will be out and about tomorrow, so maybe I will take care of it then.

  I got a red dial phone on eBay that arrived while I was gone.  I can get calls on it, but can't dial out.  Maybe my phone connection is too recent, or perhaps the country has something to do with the problem.  Well, I had no promise that it would work at all, so it was a risk that I took.  Sure looks nice in my rosy room, though, and that old fashioned ring sounds so retro that I call myself from my cell phone just to hear it.

  There was a distant thunderstorm last early evening with a cloud that produced constant lightning.  As the setting sun lit up the thunderhead I could tell that there might be some flashy action soon.  I should have taken a video on the spot, but didn't because I was walking in an open area (so I could watch the show better) on my way home from the train station.  I would like to think that I am smarter than Old Hat's cows who linger under trees in storms.  This was just an open area, which is probably an equally stupid place to be.  By the time I got home the lighting had spent itself out, and it was one of those "I shudda" moments, so below you can see the YouTube version that is unfortunately there only in my mind.  I can hear the librettist Schickeneder yelling to Mozart, "It's no good to anyone in your head!  Write it down!"  (from the movie Amadeus)

  Also stopped off at the Ear Nose & Throat department on my way home to make sure that I don't have an earache.  Sometimes I get painless ones, but they said there was nothing wrong.  I mentioned that I had been under a bit of stress in Kagoshima that might account for my ear feeling funny and they said that hey their receptionist was from Kagoshima.  When I am down there the southern accent rubs off on me a bit, so I was able to produce a bit of it, and we all had a good laugh.  Yoka.  (southern "Good")  Go up on the last syllable, about  a "do-mi" musical third and you will have the accent right. 

  There, that was quite a bit of random brain sewage running out all over my keyboard. 

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