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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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The Superintendent of the Board of Education has just been to tell me
that this month's newsletter article was especially good. He said it
brought a tear to his eyes as he read it...
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Checking the US National Weather Service's home page, it
turns out that a Heat Index of 41 degrees Celsius is just over 105
degrees Fahrenheit, which could lead to sunstroke, heat cramps or heat
exhaustion, and possible heatstroke with prolonged exposure and/or
physical activity for people in higher risk groups.
I wonder if I'm a
higher risk group?
In any case, now I know why they were telling
people how to treat sunstroke, on the NHK news the other night.
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Breakfast Show Staple Notable weather
Wow! The Heat Index temperature at Hiroshima-Nishi Airport (just across
the bay from Etajima) at the minute, is a staggering 41 degrees Celcius!
(In other words, hot.)
(By the way, the Heat Index is 'an accurate measure of how hot it really
feels when the relative humidity is added to the actual air
temperature'...)
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Web sites worthy of mention...
A great site
(although only in Japanese) with a huge number of pictures (old and new)
of trams across Japan. I especially like the monochrome pictures of
trams in Hiroshima, taken in September 1975, just a year after I was
born. In some ways Hiroshima's changed greatly in the intervening 27
years, but some aspects look just the same. An excellent site for
browsing through.
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The lobsterness is gradually returning to normal. At last!- when you
think about it, it's already nearly a week since I got sunburnt. Even
so, this morning I still had someone come into the office, stop dead in
their tracks, gasp in astonishment... and then casually ask if I had
makeup on!
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
rudely wishing doubt
rusting, singing extinct loose
mad fools repulse
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Is there a word to describe waking up in the morning and thinking (with
a profound sinking feeling), 'Oh no, not another bloody fine
day'?
If there isn't, there damn well should be. Don't get me wrong,
I dislike rainy day after rainy day as much as the next man, but even
so, to wake up morning after morning after morning and be greeted by
mercilessly blue skies (and the associated heat) becomes wearing after a
while.
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© Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth.
Updated: 8/1/03; 8:24:03 pm.
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