Taiki’s Neighborhood

体調悪シ。明日は仕事がなかなか重めな1日だから、損失のないように、早めにも出ないと。よし、オヤスミ!

夕方、家族でお風呂行こうって、先月に数日通った近所の温泉へ。温まればビミョーな具合の悪さも良くなるよねって。
そしたら[本日ゆず湯]って貼り紙。ﾜｰｲ! 昨日が定休日だったから､今日､なんだって。温泉でゆず湯､体に良すぎじゃない?
ゆずの香りの広々温かお風呂､最高だったよー。我が家は昨日､訳あって､ゆず湯ならず､かぼす湯だったからね(笑)
でね、飲む柚子湯のｻｰﾋﾞｽも。柚子を細かく切ったのに、お湯を注いで砂糖を少しのｼﾝﾌﾟﾙ柚子湯を。美味しく頂きました。
かぼす湯にゆず湯に、飲む柚子湯。完璧じゃない? これから1年、もう風邪ひかないなー(^ω^)

朝起きたらﾉﾄﾞがおかしい。

これはﾏｽﾞｲって思ってﾍﾞｯﾄﾞへ再び。

折角の休日も外出は自粛。

ｼﾞｮｰｼﾞ・ｵｰｳｪﾙを読んで過ごすよー。

Comme vous le savez, je travaille pour le site Vodkaster et entre deux tâches, il m'arrive de faire des playlists juste comme ça, pour le plaisir...

Celle-ci a été franchement sympa à faire, et surtout, à écouter...

 

福岡! 弾丸ﾄﾗﾍﾞﾗｰも満足に終了。寒かったけど､天気､崩れなくって良かった。とにかく。福岡の皆さま､ありがとう。
食べ物がﾒｲﾝのような2日間だったけれど、写真もわずかばかりあるから。少しずつ載せたりしていこう。

昨日は帰ってきてから､友人におみやげ渡しつつ過ごして､帰って眠ったのは24時過ぎ。少し寝不足なここ1週間。
今日は仕事､何気に忙ｼ｡oh dear... 今日はしっかり早寝して､明日は早めに出ないと｡やりきれない。また翌日休みだし。

 

Some more pics as promised. They were all taken with my phone as my basic requirement for a phone is that it should be a movie-quality camera first, scanner, laser gun, computer and possibly coffee maker second and a phone third or even 93rd, but obviously quality of these pics is sometimes low given the low tech threshold of Terrans.

1. A beach at Cape Point Nature reserve

2. The airport at Palaborwa. Yup. That is the WHOLE airport. It reminded me of the airport in Gaborone (Botswana) 20 years ago (or even Tirana in Albania a few years ago) except it was bigger, cleaner and way more functional. The plane was tiny, only two seats on one side and one seat on the other side of the isle and the passengers had to be spaced out evenly in it to balance it. Total capacity was 32 people including pilots and crew.

3. A giraffe

4. A not so clear pic of a wildeebeest running

 

 

1. Buffalo

2. Zebra

3. Frog. Only little but surprisingly loud. It made more noise than the Hippos.

4. Old male Elephant with Musk, waving it's ears at us in a rather pissed off fashion. Luckily the guide was a cool guy and didn't get freaked and stayed there with the car so we could get nice pics. Redhead Girl spotted it and we would have missed it if it wasn't for her. It's amazing how a 5 ton animal can basically hide behind the equivalent of a shrub at 20 metres. See later pics for proof...

 

 

 

1. Elephant hiding behind the equivalent of a bush lamp-post

2. And now you see him...

3. If you look carefully you should see the "tear" that shows he's in musk making him irritable, and testosterone fuelled, meaning, more likely to make him want to stomp dumb tourists bugging him, but he liked us I guess.

4. Inside the plane, pic taken by me holding my arm out. The other side of the isle was a single seat.

So that should complete the pics of animals section for ya.

The trip was basically all good and I even got to see and talk with my father again after 7 years. He's still physically fit and doing well, except I think he thinks in his 60s he should be "old" so has slowed down a bit, which is not all bad since he really needed to get better emotionally speaking. He seems calmer anyway and he's finally retired, which is good.

Hopefully he will think up of a nice hobby that doesn't involve shooting people or hunting criminals. He wrote an article for Magnum (an outdoor/hunting/wildlife magazine) and they liked it, so he might do more of that which I think would be nice for him as he certainly has a lot of funny, crazy, stories to tell and it saves me having to do it at some point.

 

Dad in the left one and Mom on the right one.

 

The only hitch was that on the way back the flight was cancelled which was badly unannounced so we wasted hours at the airport before finding out and had to come back the next day to fly home a day late in an almost empty 747 which meant we could stretch out taking up five seats to sleep a bit. Redhead Girl didn't bother, but I did as I never get to sleep on planes due to my height mostly.

Also I renewed my membership to the Mile High Club as Redhead Girl insisted she wanted to join this exclusive club... That's why I love her, she's just comic-book cool.

 

 

 

 

 

Bravo les filles, malgré une défaite en finale du championnat du Monde de handball organisée en Chine, elles ont fait honneur à leur maillot. Les françaises ce sont logiquement inclinées en finale face à l'ogre russe qui décroche sa troisième couronnes de suite. Le score 25 à 22, en effet les françaises pourront quand même nourrir quelques regrets, mais voilà les détails on fait la différence lors de ce match.

Mais quelle surprise déjà de les voir en finale, elles qui avaient perdu leurs deux premiers matchs de la compétition. Cette équipe est jeune, en pleine reconstruction et en transition, néanmoins cette génération à déjà prouvait que l'on pouvait leur faire confiance pour l'avenir. Ce tournoi avait donc mal commencé pour les joueuses tricolores, battues par le Brésil (pourtant une faible équipe) et le Danemark.

Déjà aux portes de l'élimination, elles ont réagis et remporté tous les matchs suivants pour se qualifier in-extremis pour le tour principal. Puis lors de ce tour c'est un 100% de victoire, dont une face aux russes. Pour se qualifier les filles d'Olivier Krumbholz dominent l'Espagne 27 à 23 et se qualifient à la surprise générale pour la finale. Mais l'effet de surprise s'arrêtera là, les russes ne se faisant pas battre une seconde fois par les bleues, qui auront été quand même finalement les seules à battre la Russie dans ce tournoi mondial. Les françaises ne referont pas l'exploit de 2003, en décrochant l'or aux mondiaux de Croatie.

Dommage quand même, car on aurait pu avoir un sacré doublé historique. En effet, après les hommes, champions du monde en titre, les filles auraient pu les rejoindre et ainsi avoir le même pays champion du Monde en masculin et en féminin. Mais pas trop de regret pour ses filles qui ne vont pas s'arrêter là, surtout en voyant où elles étaient l'année passée au championnat d'Europe. Certain de les revoir au plus vite de nouveau au sommet mondial. Pour la petite histoire c'est la Norvège qui décroche le bronze après sa victoire sur l'Espagne 31 à 26.

Tokyo Biggest Tech Party Ever took place last Thurs. Dec 17th in Roppongi at a club named 57. There was a good turnout of reportedly 400+ people attending. The Poken guys were there as were a group selling a dedicated offline Wikipedia device. I saw and talked with many of the regular Tokyo Technorati as well as some people I hadn't had the pleasure of meeting before. Below are some of the photos from the party, it was a great event.