Since I got my visa renewal done last week, I also had to go to the city hall to renew my stupid "My Number Card"... And since I had to renew it anyway, I wanted to see if I could get my katakana name registered on it this time, because currently the only official ID I have with katakana on it is my health insurance card, which doesn't have a photo ( Read more... )

Nothing ever happens in the countryside? Well...

After the landslides last month, how about a wild car chase with multiple police cars and helicopters searching for a fugitive 81-year-old tax evader on the run with a hunting rifle? O_O; Apparently this happened... (This report says he was "In his 70s" but later reports said he was 81...) On ( Read more... )

Over the past week I went for a couple of walks on my lunch breaks and discovered just how big the damage from the typhoon has been T_T I also found some posts online about the status of the various hiking trails, and it looks like the Togawa Rindou trail that we just painstakingly cleaned a week before with the Leech Busters event has been hit by ( Read more... )

On Thursday night after Toumyu it was pouring like crazy! Thankfully at least some trains were moving again, although I had to take a weird detour via Noborito instead of the shortest route home, and the Odakyu line was only running local trains, stopping at every station T_T In the end I arrived at my station at 12:30 AM... Remind me to not get ( Read more... )

...Just as I was about to start posting a big earthquake happened! ^^; After the earthquake in Miyazaki yesterday, which I didn't feel because it was all the way in Kyushu, they've been warning for a "megaquake" that may occur within the next week or so... I didn't do any kind of special preparation or hoarding, because my emergency kit is pretty ( Read more... )

Despite the humidity and some showers there aren't any signs of a proper "rainy season" staring any time soon yet, so last week I had plenty of opportunities to go for walks during my lunch breaks :3


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Yesterday I went to pick up my ticket for the Natsume Yuujinchou concert in Kumamoto later this month, and... I might've gotten a ridiculously good seat??? O___O  I chose "side seats" as my first choice because I figured those would be easier to get in the lottery (fewer people competing for them?), but...


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On Saturday Sindraa and I went for a hike at Bukkasan~  I hadn't been in a while, but I remembered it being a really fun and adventurous hike where you can traverse a narrow mountain ridge without needing to climb ridiculously high to get there ^o^  And it's not too touristy or crowded either, considering how fun it is and how nice the views are. And it ( Read more... )

Having not quite had my fill of swimming at the outdoors pool that sadly closed for the season on September 3rd, I went to check out the local indoors pool after learning that it's open until 9PM! It might be nice to go swimming there on random weekdays some days, when it's quiet ( Read more... )

So I saw this pop up yesterday...I guess this is why there's not a Yoshimori Makoto piano concert in Hitoyoshi this autumn? xD ( Read more... )