7 posts tagged “clouds”

So let's start out in Not-Oyabe, aka my bathroom.  I've noticed this rust stain on the wallpaper for quite a while, but never got around to taking a pic of it until just now. It looks like the kanji 月, doesn't it?  I wonder how that happened.

This is coming out of a drainage pipe in the hill they've covered in concrete that's 20m below a junior high school :goog:

yay clouds and whatnot and so on

Now it's confession time: I have a unibrow.  Not a Bert-from-Sesame-Street class unibrow, but a unibrow nonetheless.  Unlike many people with unibrows though, I acknowledge that I have a problem, and I try to keep it in check.  So, this morning, as I was shaving in the shower, I took the razor to my unibrow.  Problem is, the razor was dull, and so I had to press quite hard.  This wouldn't have been a problem if it hadn't been for the mole/bump right between my eyebrows, whatever it is. While shaving the hair, I also managed to shave the top off of the bump/mole, and as with any facial wound, it bled and bled and bled. Then it bled some more. After that, there was some bleeding.  I had to go out!  I couldn't go out with a massive bleeding wound between my eyes though, that'd be gross!  I had to put something over it, a bandaid of some sort.  Unfortunately, part of the reason I had to go out was to buy bandaids.  I only had one bandaid in the house, but putting it on solved one problem and created a new one.

I had Pokemon bandaids.  Could I BE more conspicuous? ._.  Oh well, I'm sure I brought a smile to a few people's faces, even if it was a, "Oh those crazy foreign people, what WILL they do next?" smile. :)

Now, finally, Peking Opera from March 2005.  When I took the video, I was trying to capture the titles as well, but the resolution of the video was shit on my old camera, so it really just ends up being annoying and motion sickness inducing, since you can't read most of the titles.  Here it is anyway, though.

Check us out, aren't we cool, with our blue sweaters and what not. Cool shit.

Delicious raw fish for supper.

Now that Mid-Year Seminar is over, it's back to the grind, I guess. Oh well.

Also today, my welcome package from the Ayumi Hamasaki fanclub "TeamAyu" came.  A members' card and key covers were included.　My keys are too big, though.
今日、浜崎あゆみファンクラブ、「ＴｅａｍＡｙｕ」からの私の入会パッケージは届きました。メンバーのカードは含まれていました。 また、鍵カバーがあります。しかし、私の鍵は大き過ぎます。

After work, I went for a walk, and took many pictures.
仕事の後に、私は散歩に行きました。 私は多くの写真を取りました。

I always post so many pictures. Maybe it is annoying?
いつもとても多くの写真を掲示します。多分、それは煩わしいですか?

Here's a video. It's an Evangelion anime music video.
ほら！ビデオだ！それはアニメミュージックビデオです。それはエヴァンゲリオンに基づいています。

k bai
じゃね。

And that's about all I did.  Came home, read some stuff on the interbutts, listened to music and added tempo information (tedious and will take me foreeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvverrrrrrrrrrrrrr).  Then I posted here. :3

And now, today's video: this is from this year's Toyama International Charity Show, entitled "Peter Pan and the NEETs".  In this scene, Wendy is about to walk the plank, and Captain Hook and the pirates are taunting her and riling the firefly squid up.  Suddenly, Peter Pan and the NEETs (and Wendy's brothers John, Michael and Ringo) appear and fighting ensues!! Let's watch!

This has been another visit to my video vault. Tune in tomorrow for yet another one!

Opened the back door to put my bags in the back seat (as I do every day at least once), and as I was leaning in, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye -- something was stuck to the seal on the inside of the door.  I turned my head to look closer at it, and recoiled in shock!  This is what was stuck in my liner:
;_;!
So, at some point (recently, I'd assume, since I've had the car for three years, open that door several times a day, and only noticed it just then) a tiny lizard somehow got squashed in between the door and the frame.  I don't know when, I don't know how... I don't know where, because I've never seen tiny lizards here ever (except for that one last week at the supermarket that was hiding in a potted tree -- but it was smaller and no where near my car).  It made me feel sad :(.

After I recovered from that, I got back on the road and headed further south, deeper into the mountains, towards Kamitaira.  At the rest stop in Kamitaira, I took some more pictures and did a bit more shopping. As I was perusing the goods at the souvenir shop there (they had some awesome little wooden shot glasses/sake cups, but man, wood products are so expensive), the woman who worked there kept leering at me.  When I finally went up to pay, she rang me up and then was like, I'VE SEEN YOU.

O_O what?!

YOU WERE AT TONAMI HOSPITAL! I SAW YOU!

Ahh, yes, I sometimes go there.

IT'S A GOOD HOSPITALHOW CLOSE DO YOU LIVE TO IT?!

Um, a few blocks?

I SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Okay crazy mountain lady, let me go, so you can return to cooking your bear stew and dancing the Mugiya.

On the way back down the mountain, I turned at the light (I say 'the light', because there really is only one up in that neck of the woods) instead of going straight.  This way I could see some new scenery, and also, it's less curvy and therefore less work. Also, Gokayama Tunnel is super long and awesome to drive in.  Just past the bottom of the tunnel, a few minutes out of Johana, there's an overlook on Rt. 304 that I've been to before, and I figured I'd make a stop there and take a few pictures.

Then I headed back home.  It wasn't a bad day.

And now for something that I plan to make a bit of a thing for the next, oh, 116 days or so, video time!  I've taken bunches and bunches of video with my camera, but since YouTube permabanned me, I don't really have anywhere to show stuff soooooo let's enjoying it here.  You guys will appreciate it more than the YouTube crowd would anyway. :)

(Note to those readers on LiveJournal or Facebook: click through on the video images to watch the video, or join Vox and add me to your neighbourhood so you can enjoy it directly.)

(Note to Vox: See how well I pimp your goods?)

First, four videos I've taken recently, all of driving. Most of my videos are driving vids. Yeah, maybe it's a bit bleeh, but you can see some typical scenes of life in Japan maybe, sooo that's cool yes? These first two were taken yesterday on my way back from Nanao.

Next, video of part of my drive home tonight.  ADDED BONUS: Listen to me curse out retard drivers!
Finally, a video I took last weekend, I guess, of driving from Tonami to Toide, with backing music added in, because the wind overpowered the microphone (even though the wind filter was on).  Funny that holding a camera out the window of a moving car would make there be a lot of wind in the mic... :P
And now that I've gone overboard on this post, I bid you adieu until the morrow.
... nono, the morrow, not the marrow.  No I didn't say I was going to break your bones and suck the marrow out.  Yes I did say that marrow is the most delicious part of the cow, but... no no, it's not vile, I assure you.