Category: everyday life

   Very very sunny, today! Besides very muggy! But still in the rainy season(梅雨) around our area, I mean the northern part of Kyūshū(九州). The #12 typhoon(HALOLA) is approaching Kyūshū.

   The day today is very hot and the fitting weather for Midsummer Day of the Ox(土用の丑の日). I wonder if you know the day when people eat grilled eel(鰻の蒲焼) in Japan though I didn’t have it today.

   I took a picture of a large brown cicada(油蝉). When I see and hear these cicadas, I feel in the middle of the summer season this year. (^o^)/

Edit(Jul.26):
   At 13:40 today, JMA predicted HALOLA weakened into a tropical depression again around tomorrow afternoon. I wish the forecast right.

   I took another picture of cicadas. They are another popular cicada around my region called クマゼミ, literally “bear cicada”. They are bigger than large brown cicadas.

Edit2(Jul.27):
   Around 21:00 on July 26, the #12 typhoon(HALOLA) weakened to a tropical depression earlier than JMA prediction. After all, we had weak rain and wind by it.

Edit3(Jul.30):
   Yesterday, the end of this rainy season around our area coincided with release of Windows10. Well, just joking (*^_^*).

   In fact, JMA announced the end of the rainy season about the northern part of Kyūshū(九州) and the northern part of Tōhoku(東北) on July 29.

   Do you remember Philae? It was going to sleep last November. Rosetta and Philae teams continued to search for the current location of the lander, and they received the signals 20:28 UTC on 13 June. → Rosetta’s lander Philae wakes up from hibernation

   Wow! amazing! Actually I wondered if it would wake up or not. But a miracle sometimes comes. Good!!

   What will Philae ‘speak’ next? I can’t wait.

   By the way, where is our Hayabusa2 traveling now?

Edit(Jun.20):
   A new information about Philae, wow! Rosetta and Philae in contact again (Jun.19@13:37 UTC)

   On the article, “We are very happy to have received signals from the lander again, and we are all working hard towards establishing a robust link between Rosetta and Philae,” comments Patrick Martin, ESA Rosetta mission manager.

Edit(Jun.26):
　They announced “Rosetta mission extended” on June 23. They say, “Rosetta mission will be extended until the end of September 2016, at which point the spacecraft will most likely be landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.”

   When I turned it on this morning, my KeyPaso didn’t wake up. (T_T)

   It gives me beep suddenly. I have been shattered, so I haven’t check it out yet (sigh).

   Now we have an armful of Spring in my town ha-ha. I took pictures of the flowers all of which are Tsutsuji (ツツジ) and some of them are already dead, but please laugh and forgive them for me (~_^). I saw them around my neighborhood. I’ll show you them though my photo skill isn’t so good. How about them?

   Happy New Year! It is the beginning of a new year.

   This is a year of Hitsuji, according to the Oriental Zodiac.

   We call ‘hitsuji’ ‘sheep’ in English. The illustration of this greeting card uses Hiragana “ひつじ” and the illustrator pulls the Hiragana into a real sheep shape. Can you see it? My guess tells it’s funny and cool v(^o^)v.

   I wish you guys Happy New Year.

   Gods bless you, guys!

   Yesterday Hayabusa 2 successfully launched, wow!! At that time, I spent hours watching the live streaming on YouTube. What were you doing?

   You can watch the video on YouTube easily. “Asteroid Explorer ‘Hayabusa2’ Launch Live Broadcast”

   His return is scheduled in 2020. What a long journey!! The place where he would return is in Australia as same as his brother Hayabusa’s. I pray for peace. We have to protect the world peace, or, we could not recover its capsule if we have the war between Australia and Japan or WW III when his return. I think the peaceful uses of space require the peaceful world. But, the world… I hope that is my imaginary fears, though.

   I bought this!! What is this? See the right advertisement. ＼(^o^)／.
 
   Last week, my very old gamepad was broken. I couldn’t find such old models at stores near my house, so I was googling on the Internet and found it out. Its vender is Buffalo but it looks remarkably like the SNES/Super Famicom gamepad by Nintendo.
 
   I ordered it at around 9pm on last Saturday and had it 3pm on last Sunday. Amazon.co.jp is quick about their work and the delivery service company was Kuroneko at this time.
 
   The gamepad works well. I give two thumbs-up to it, he-he.