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Mutant produce
Absolutely enormous asparagus. Not from Fukushima. 398 yen per stalk. Today in the supermarket, I expected to see some empty places in the produce aisle – conspicuously absent spinach and leafy greens with apologetic signs regretting the inconvenience. But I was wrong. There was as much spinach and other greens as usual. All from Chiba…
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Enjoying and suffering
On the weekend we hoopers joined together at Yoyogi Park to hoop and collect donations for the Peace Boat’s earthquake relief efforts. They are cooking 500 hot meals a day up in Ishonomaki and we gathered some cooking supplies and cash for them. I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed and especially to Sareh…
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Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Yesterday I took a break from the computer almost all day and went out into the world for the first time since I caught my cold. Even though I was still coughing like a six pack a day smoker, I needed to breathe real air. And there were errands to run, so out I went.…
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The dance of progress
We are now firmly in a phase of two steps forward, one step back. It’s like living a bad waltz. Let’s try not to bump into the other dancers in the ballroom. After yesterday’s scare over radioactive iodine in the Tokyo water supply, we discovered that it was already halved by this morning. The mad…
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Actions are stronger than worries
We may worry in Tokyo about aftershocks and radiation risks, but there are some people who have more than worries. They have troubles. This week I’m shifting my focus to helping the survivors of the Tohoku Kano Earthquake who are stuck in shelters with insufficient, heat, food and hope. While relief is arriving daily and…
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Just a bunch of random stuff
Tinfoil hat competition entries at the Equinox Barbecue yesterday. Hat themes, L-R top row: nuclear cooling tower by Rob; BSD daemon by Paul; WTF? by Masa hand modelled by me; Disaster Airlines by me; Turkish fez by Yasu. L-R bottom row: propeller beanie by Tracey modeled by Max; wonder woman by Sareh modeled by Tracey;…
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Tokyo’s food supply
It didn’t take long to get back to “normal”
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We’ll leave when…
…the Japanese government announces Tokyo evacuations.
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Non-electric housecleaning
Dusting, check. Scrubbing, check. Vacuuming…no.
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Tokyo transit & other notes
with video of train trip across town
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