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Made it in one piece! It’s another hot night in Tokyo, but I took my sweet time getting back to my apartment with all the windows closed (it might rain, you see) and no air conditioner running (that uses electricity that this country’s quake-addled nuke plants can’t provide, you see). I stopped by Sugitamaya, this Italian wine bar near my station, for a glass of red and a shot of delicious grappa and a plate of mozzarella and tomato and basil. A fine dinner if you ask me.
Now I’m doing a load of wash and waiting for the apartment to cool down a bit. This is a tough season since you never know when the heat will bring thunderheads from the mountains west of the city to fling water sideways at the apartment, so you can’t leave everything open and cool during the day when you’re gone. It all works out when Mom and the baby are home during the day, controlling the climate inside, but when they’re staying downtown with Grandma and you have to come home alone then the place to which you come home is DAAAMN hot. Seriously.
Time to hang up the laundry and hit the sack. I did the solid 12-hour day thing today, so tomorrow I have a bit more leeway to go in late and leave early for a beer-drinking session at Enchanté. Anyone out there feel like stopping by?
A day that shall live in telephony
On August 3, 131 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell makes the first intelligible telephone call from building to building: his uncle recites a Hamlet soliloquy to him. (According to that same page, 480 years ago today we had the the “first recorded letter from the New World to the Old,” too. So this is, like, communication day or something. Cool.
I’m on the other side of the International Date Line, so it’s already THE FUTURE!!! over here, but I thought this was cool just the same.
(Via the Freakonomics blog.)
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