Toilets are not supposed to freeze. The water in the toilet bowl is not supposed to turn into ice. The pipe leading into the tank isn’t supposed to freeze. When I turn the handle, I should get a nice whooshing sound and moving water. In liquid form.
There is not supposed to be an icicle several inches long hanging from my bath tap. The water on the floor left over from yesterday’s shower is not supposed to solidify on the bathroom floor. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!
These are a couple photos I took at the end of December during Sendai’s Starlight Pageant. Two years ago I went to the same thing but none of my photos came out. This time I was smart. No, I didn’t bring a tripod, that would have required me owning a tripod. No, I just set my camera on a semi-stable wooden pole and snapped. Yay for light bloom.
Jozenji street, December 29th
From the front of the Irish Pub, December 30th
I went with Lane on a snowboarding trip today, to Eboshi. The snow has been fierce today, and the winds kick up drifts of snow and hurl it across the ground. As you can expect, this causes many accidents. On the way into Sendai yesterday there was a car blown off into a ditch running alongside the road. Everyone just drove around it.
Now, on the way back, traffic is at a standstill. Has been for the last hour. Meanwhile the forces of hell and damnation rail against my car, shaking it around. If there were an earthquake right now I’d never know. (Did I mention I got a car? Little kei piece of junk. It’s only until the ice clears.)
You can’t see it in the photo, but five minutes ago I couldn’t see the car in front of me.
Last night I went to Esashi in Iwate-ken for some kind of special New Year festival with dancing elk. Rather, there were people dressed in fancy costumes with elk antlers attached. It was pretty neat.
But my friends agreed that the most amusing part of the evening was the crazy drunk guy with one glass eye and two teeth who kept talking to us. At one point he was making catcalls at the dancers, and at another he brought a whole box of sake to drink in one sitting. Wacky.
The shamisen thing was followed by a team juggling hot coals. After that was a man tap dancing upside down. Then a guy doing stunts on a BMX bike. I am not joking.
Must be some sort of special.
A quartet of attractive girls wearing kimono just played a rendition of “Smoke on the Water” on shamisen (traditional Japanese harp). I’m impressed.
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