Rain, rain, rain
We’re right in the middle of the delayed 梅雨 (tsuyu), or rainy season here in Kobe. It’s been raining for two days straight, and according to the weather reports, it will continue to do so mor or less continuously for the coming week. For the first day or two it is quite nice, because the clouds and rain provide a nice change to the sweltering heat of the japanese summer. After that, though, the humidity begins. Everything gets humid, and there is little possibility of keeping it out of your house, unless you have a very good air conditioner and are willing to spend on the electricity bill. This is probably one of the major minuses with Japan - the weather. Sometimes I wish for a Swedish summer with barbecue, swimming, 25 degrees and no humidity. I would sacrifice a lot to get that. Maybe I would even drink Swedish beer… :-P
July 29th, 2006 at 21:14
Hey Bjorn!
I don’t really see the big thing about this rainy season. Seems very overrated. Everyone at work has been on about it for two months straight now, but to me it’s been no worse than what we Swedes call summer.
Humidity is a killer though, have to agree on that.
Have to mess with your structure and comment on the mafioso also. I read that the police comes out with a report over how many members the different gangs have once a year, exact down to the last single poor henchman. The obvious question is, how do they do this. My guess is that they send a questionarie to the Yakuza that, in a very Japanese way, is returned with the correct data. Somehow very disturbing. But then again, the Yakuza were providing help faster than official sources at the Kobe earthquake, so why not.
July 29th, 2006 at 21:28
‘ey, Slobban!
Nice to see you stopping by :-)
Actually, I just needed to bitch about something, I was in a bad mood that day. But, the constant rain really gets to me. Just like autumn in Linköping, except warmer.
I’m sure you’re right about the yakuza survey thing :-)
Do you get a lot of floorball played over in Nagoya? Keep hearing from Mike and Tomo in Tokyo, really looking forward to play.
July 30th, 2006 at 23:37
Hiya!
The tsuyu is over soon and next week we will get the bloody heat and humidity =) Yay!
So when are you joining shooting you said?
August 5th, 2006 at 9:07
I guess I’ll join sometime in september. Whenever I get sorted in Tokyo, that is.