[ Rainy September

We broke a record here in Tokyo: we had 34 consecutive days of rain. I feel
like it rained every day last month. The sun finally came out yesterday, but
it was cloudy again today. Unbelievably, Typhoon #27 is heading north towards
us when #26 just passed by earlier this week and #25 before that. I can't even
keep track of them anymore.

At least autumn seems to have finally arrived. It is rather chilly this evening
and it's cool in the mornings. It was quite hot yesterday, but the oppresive
humidity of August is now thankfully gone.

Also, a record for me: my NetBSD box has a current uptime of 403 days.

I am currently reading "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" by Lafcadio Hearn [1]. I
confess ordinarily I don't have any interest in the supernatural, but I have
readlly enjoyed his narratives of Japan. Along the way I learned some new (old)
words like "obduracy", "wending" and "jocose", though I doubt I can use them in
daily conversation.

Earlier this year I read "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" [2] which is also from
around the late 1800s. The author, Isabella Bird, wrote numerous other books
such as her travels around the US mainland and Hawaii, so my reading list is
full for a while.

There's usually something to watch on TV here in the evenings, but recently
they've been preemting programs for sports, and I hate it when they do that. I
found some good TV shows from the 1970s (my favorite decade) on youtube, so I
have been watching them to get my fix before they're pulled and the channel is
killed off.

Only 84 days until Christmas.







[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8130
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2184