Brian’s Japan Adventure

December 30th, 2007

What’s That White Stuff?

I slept late and woke up in pain; my back is still messed up. My feet are fine, but I seem to have pulled or pinched something in my back. I’m not even sure that I can blame the backpack on this; it may have been something else. Ow.

I spent the first few hours of the day reading. I finished the book Brother Odd by Dean Koontz around 1:00.  That was the last of my Christmas gift books. It was hard to put down. I put about four hours into it last night another few this morning. Overall, it was a very fast-paced book.

I figured after that it was lunchtime. Wanting to save the noodle bowls for a more desperate day, I decided it was time for McDonalds. The wind was blowing pretty hard outside, and the whistling of the wind had gotten my attention several times this morning. There’s a banner hanging on a pole across the street from the apartment, and it was making quite a racket this morning. I decided to wear my heavy coat this time. It’s the first time I’ve tried it on in ages, and now I remember why I never liked it much; it’s way too big for me. Still, it’s very warm, so I can make it work.

As I moved my bicycle out of my foyer and into the street, something hit me in the eye, making me blink quickly. It was snowing!  This is the first time I have seen snow all year. It’s 46 degrees Fahrenheit, so there’s no fear of it sticking, but it was falling from the sky, vanishing on impact. It wasn’t even wetting the street.  So I rode the bucycle to Happy Town in the snow. It wasn’t as bad as it sounds, not at all.

I did the usual McLunch order, then bought some candy at the 100Y store and some bread and butter in the grocery. I figure I can at least make toast; that’s as close to real cooking as I plan to get this week.

On returning home, the snow had stopped. I picked up the new book, The Haiku Apprentice, which started out pretty good. I am already about ¼ of the way through it; so I doubt it’ll take vary long to finish.

[update]

…This is of course until I ended up playing a 6-1/2 hour marathon length version of Civilization. It was neck-and-neck all the way, but I did finally manage to scrape though with a “Time” victory, narrowly beating out Saladin and Mao Zedong.

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