At this moment
0It’s 3:51 pm on Sunday. My weather app tells me that it’s 86 degrees but that it feels like 91 degrees. Humidity is 62% and it is mostly cloudy. There’s a 40% chance of scattered thunderstorms tomorrow. The girls are… Read more ›
Today in Ueno
0Today we went into Ueno today to go to a Summer Festival. It was along a lake that looked like this when we saw it in December. When we saw it in April, it was just water.… Read more ›
A bit of randomness
1It’s almost 5pm. I’m listening to Erasure and the sonic chatter of the cicadas. The girls are watching Dinosaur Train. That’s about as exciting as it gets around here. 🙂 While we were out today, we ran across this fellow.… Read more ›
Books I read this month: July
1These are the books I read this month. The Secret Life of Pronouns by James Pennebaker: This book was fascinating. It’s about the patterns of how we use language, and what those patterns say about us. It focuses on smaller… Read more ›
Tokyo Dome Attractions
3My original title for this post was going to be “Comic-Con Hall H Has Nothing on Japanese Fan Girls”, but there are only a certain number of people who would get that. 🙂 I’ll explain it a little further down.… Read more ›
We’ve only been here 2 weeks?
2I realized today that we’ve only been here for 16 days. Somehow that was extremely surprising to me. No wonder it feels like we don’t have the house pulled together yet. (Duh.) It is hot. Not as hot as it… Read more ›
School days
3Brandy asked what we are doing for school, so I shall tell you. I go into this post with the disclaimer that obviously, what is right for us isn’t necessarily right for everyone, and we’re not judging those who make… Read more ›
Random images from my camera
4It’s almost 4pm on Wednesday. It’s raining outside, and earlier (before the rain) our backyard was graced by multiple kinds of butterflies, dragonflies, and a very loud cicada. Now it’s raining but not storming, and the view outside is beautiful,… Read more ›
At this moment
1It is 9:53 am. It’s cloudy outside, but my weather app tells me it is somewhere between 79-81 degrees. Perhaps 80 degrees? That would be too easy. It’s a quiet morning. The girls are upstairs playing. They’ve had a rough,… Read more ›
At this moment, and answering questions
3It is 9:30 am. Outside it is overcast with gray clouds, and my weather app tells me that it is currently 84 degrees with a 40 % chance of rain, including thunder. Yay! (We have nowhere to go today. Let… Read more ›