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Aug. 10th, 2009 03:09 pmIt's a sticky, horrible, rainy day. The only small blessing is that the cloudy, rainy weather has reduced the temperature to 26 degrees, although the 88% humidity is doing little to help matters.
Last night we had a massive leaving dinner for one of my co-workers - about 61 people turned up - and we pretty much took over one half of an izakaya in Yokohama. Half way through my co-workers' speech the building started swaying. It wasn't a strong quake, maybe only a 3 or a 4, but when you're on the 25th floor it feels slightly like you've been drinking too much, which most people had, though pleasantly I hadn't. I think the weird thing was that it lasted for about 2 minutes or so, which is a pretty long time. If you check the Japan Meterological Agency site for yesterday at about 8.02pm, you can see that pretty much the whole Honshu experienced the quake.
Today, after lazing about in bed this morning, I will be packing up my stuff as I'm moving house at the end of the week. Today is the only day I'm going to get off until next Wednesday as I on the go from 10am to 10pm every day this week with various bits and pieces. After moving house on Friday, for which I have taken a day off, I will be working Saturday and then taking a a night bus to Niigata and Sado Island for the Earth Celebration festival. The island is deceptively large, probably about the same size as Tokyo, so my friend Rachel and I have been mulling over how to get to do all the things we want, including taking a tour through a fjord in a glass-bottomed boat. The Taiko drumming workshops are all fully booked, but as long as the weather holds out I'm certain that we can do whatever we want on bicycles. As we're camping, we'll have no shower facilities, so we're planning to hit the sea, and the onsen in town, everyday. An excellent excuse to sit hot baths which are rumoured to be good for gout. I didn't even know that condition lasted any longer than poor Sir Lester Deadlock in "Bleak House".
So, anyway. Packing...
Last night we had a massive leaving dinner for one of my co-workers - about 61 people turned up - and we pretty much took over one half of an izakaya in Yokohama. Half way through my co-workers' speech the building started swaying. It wasn't a strong quake, maybe only a 3 or a 4, but when you're on the 25th floor it feels slightly like you've been drinking too much, which most people had, though pleasantly I hadn't. I think the weird thing was that it lasted for about 2 minutes or so, which is a pretty long time. If you check the Japan Meterological Agency site for yesterday at about 8.02pm, you can see that pretty much the whole Honshu experienced the quake.
Today, after lazing about in bed this morning, I will be packing up my stuff as I'm moving house at the end of the week. Today is the only day I'm going to get off until next Wednesday as I on the go from 10am to 10pm every day this week with various bits and pieces. After moving house on Friday, for which I have taken a day off, I will be working Saturday and then taking a a night bus to Niigata and Sado Island for the Earth Celebration festival. The island is deceptively large, probably about the same size as Tokyo, so my friend Rachel and I have been mulling over how to get to do all the things we want, including taking a tour through a fjord in a glass-bottomed boat. The Taiko drumming workshops are all fully booked, but as long as the weather holds out I'm certain that we can do whatever we want on bicycles. As we're camping, we'll have no shower facilities, so we're planning to hit the sea, and the onsen in town, everyday. An excellent excuse to sit hot baths which are rumoured to be good for gout. I didn't even know that condition lasted any longer than poor Sir Lester Deadlock in "Bleak House".
So, anyway. Packing...