the detailed weather

July 9, 2007 at 8:23 am · Filed under Mundane

Now I can check the weather in the morning from a source other than my mobile. If I want details there I think I have to subscribe to something. So I checked the weather this morning and well, I’ve mentioned the laundry index before – the weather reports here include estimations of how long it takes to dry your laundry. That makes total sense. So does the umbrella index. Today it is 10 – it is okay not to bring an umbrella with you even though it is cloudy outside. My new finds this morning also make sense but they are still amusing.

The ice cream index. Today it is 60 – we should use ice cream to get over the heat. Tomorrow it is only 50. We only want to eat ice cream but whether or not it is necessary is questionable.

The sweat index. Today if you walk, you will gradually start to sweat.

I’m gonna be running (and sweating) to the bus stop at the rate I’m going here. Got out of bed in a weird way today. Probably because I was startled last night. I had fallen asleep for only a while when my mind decided to wake itself up with a spider hallucination/dream. This one seemed so real that I leapt off of my bed pulling my blankets with me. Good thing because even with the extra padding my hip was still bruised a little. I kind of wish I had it on camera. It was totally an action movie reflex.

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lost shoes

July 7, 2007 at 4:29 am · Filed under Mundane

I can’t believe this. After more than a year, since March of 2006, I am once again the proud owner of home Internet. They hooked me up this morning but I had no chance to try. Now, 18 hours later, I have plugged waffles in and she is really back.

What will this mean for the course of the next 2 months? I can write to you I really can. Because it is times like this, 4:30am after いろいろな drinks that it feels comfortable. Not jotted down and then written in a rush at work.

Last night there was a birthday party at an onsen (hot spring) / unagi restaurant. On the way home I spotted these shoes in Yokosuka-chuo. Nice shoes, abandonned, by a bicycle, not really around anything else. Do they belong to the rider of the bicycle? Is there a man walking around barefoot? Are they my size?

Mystery shoes they are.

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woke up in kyoto this morning

June 15, 2007 at 3:17 pm · Filed under Dreams, Lists, Mundane

waking up first thoughts:
- someone’s phone is ringing, no that’s my alarm
- wait a minute, I can’t leave this dream I wasn’t done that conversation
- my face feels greasy
- my teeth are wearing sweaters
- am I hot or cold?
- my mind is here my vision is not
- was I going to wake up today?
- is that really sunshine or is the day just happy to see me?
- how can I get coffee?
- have I changed position since I fell asleep?
- is someone expecting me?
- where am I?
- did I say bye before I left my dream?
- are there really bugs crawling on my ceiling or are those eye spots?
- where is food?
- this seems to be my reality. What if one day it is not?
- uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggh………

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logging

May 28, 2007 at 6:02 pm · Filed under Mundane

I guess this is how these things work. Cut and paste from a file on my desktop, thingsiforgot.txt:

I forgot…

M 05.21.2007 …to take out the PET bottle recycling in the morning
T 05.22.2007 …to bring my wallet downstairs at lunch in order to recharge my lunchcard and as a consequence I had to borrow money
Since 05.22.2007 …my thingsiforgot list

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may’s potty talk

May 9, 2007 at 11:42 am · Filed under Mundane

Just came back from the can on the 2nd floor and they have a new Toto apparatus installed. The controller for this one (for the bidet, massage, heated seat, etc.) indicates the time. I looked at that time…11:30am…and realized that I never see the time from the can. I not only do not see the time, I don’t think of it and in fact, I think of the bathroom/washroom as a timeless space.
Ok so maybe that doesn’t completely work because over the time the washroom is the room that becomes the most noticeably dirty (to me). It is the blue stripe on the toothbrush or that band on the battery telling you when time is up, something needs to be changed, cleaned, done.
But – we can put clocks in anything computer controlled so why not? It is cheap and it adds an extra function to advertise. But when is time an uninvited guest? Like in the bathroom stall where the time reminds me of the world outside almost like it is a person standing outside the door making sure that I come out in due time.

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