Raining
November 10, 2003
Finally a bit of time to relax. It’s been a very busy and tiring week no doubt. The funeral and other ceremonial dealings were quite draining. I helped as much as I could but I couldn’t fully participate in them since I was not a relative. The first few days, none of us slept very well. I got maybe 3 or 4 hours a day. The days after that were spent in their store cleaning and dealing with headaches about what to do. It has been an exhaustive week. Luckily I took a week off work because I knew it would tax me this much. I go back to work in two days which means I’ll have tonight and tomorrow to not do anything. Well actually, I have neglected my apartment for a couple months now – it needs a big big scrub down and I have a behemoth laundry pile that needs washing.
So it looks like they’re going to close their company soon. It’s a pity – a fully operational, profitable, fairly easy business and it’s going to be closed. I seriously considered taking over (the operational side anyway) had the father been well enough to teach me everything.
The new picture up top was taken by Eri’s dad while he was in Nagoya in August. We found his digital camera and two CF cards with pics in them. I made CD and today the pictures were printed. Some of them were very nicely taken! Here’s just one of them. I believe it’s a pic of Nagoya Castle.
The camera that I’ve been wanting to buy might have dropped in price slightly… I think I’ve decided to buy it even though it costs so frickin much. It’s much more than a nice consumer camera but not quite professional yet. I think it’s a good start. The best thing about it is the 10x optical zoom and pretty nice SLR lens. There is much more manual control than average consumer cameras but there’s only preset white balance and not much aperture settings to choose from… F2.8 to 3.5 I think… I don’t know, I might (probably will) buy it this week.
I’m sorry to all you folks who IM’d me only to not get any replies. I leave my computer on a lot and I forget to set those damn programs to Away sometimes. There were a few times when I was there but I just really did not feel like talking.
Anyway, I’m out of things to say now. More later.
Small Stories
I don’t know how he does it, but Derek Kirk Kim from Smallstories.com has done it again with his latest small story The Ten Commandments of Simon.
