Update

I've kind of run into a problem. I've published everything I've had in the backlog for the blog, and now I seem to have lost my pocket camera. I'm backtracking to all of the places I went on the day I last remember having it, but no luck so far. It may have fallen off my belt loop again, so I'm going to stop at a nearby koban (police box) in Tenmonkan to see if anyone turned it in. But I don't have my hopes up about that. Worst case, I may have to wait a while before I can buy a new replacement. In the meantime, this blog may have to go into a short hiatus. Sorry about that, Chief.

Odiina Hair Salon Chalk

Chalk art advertising hair styling for high school boys.

Trombone Spring 2022 Chalk Art

Don't worry, Bee happy.



As happy as a mole in a hole.

Spring Garden Fair

Every year, the garden supplies shops take over Lion's Park near Kotsuki river for 4-5 weeks.



As of March 13th, they were just starting to set up the tent frames.

Moth

Found this little guy on the wall near the ceiling at the entrance of a grocery store. No one else seemed to have noticed him while I was there. I hope he got out ok.

Update

Man, what a nightmare. I have Windows 10 on my laptop, and a couple days ago Norton came up and said that it couldn't finish a virus definitions update, and that I'd have to restart the computer. I do this, and lose about 30 minutes of productivity because of the shutdown-start-up times involved. A little later, I get the same message and I have to restart again. But this time, when Windows restarts, I discover that my Firefox browser settings have been reset to the defaults, that I've been logged out of every page I've been using online, and that my Google account thinks that I'm running a brand new copy of Windows.

I've spent the last two days trying to correct each screw-up as I encounter it, and the latest one was on Blogger, where the Google account settings made it look like I don't have a blog. I didn't have to time fix this situation this morning before going to work, so it's had to wait until now. Sigh.

Anyway, I'm also kind of running out of things to post on this blog again, so the next "stuff in Japan" entry will have to wait until tomorrow my time.

Zone and Uma Musume

I'd written about a week ago of finding a whole bunch of canned cocktails and coffees with anime themes at Familymart, but not being able to track down the one energy drink series with unknown characters on it. Well, I finally found those at 7-11, and they're also for Uma Musume. I don't drink stuff like Red Bull, so I'm not going to get these Zone cans, either.

"She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care."