The US Presidential race has officially begun…and the mud slinging along with it!
Candidates and candidates husbands are showing the frustration from it all.
So in order to relieve stress built up over the campaign, I suggest all the candidates go outside in the snow where they can throw snowballs at one another. It should televised so we can see which candidates get beamed the most and who focuses on whom the most. It will help viewers see which candidates are the strongest and give us good insight at who is frustrated with whom.
kbyte on January 21st 2008 in Politics
My wife and I took a trip to New Zealand to visit family there a few years into our life in Japan. Little did we know that we had brought something along with us we wish we hadn’t…the dirty nasty Osaka air!
Upon arrival, we thought we’d unpack our luggage and settle into the place we were staying. We opened our suitcases and a terrible smelling wave of air hit us. We immediately slammed the suitcase shut and then realized that the smell was coming from our clothes.
At first, we thought it might be a shirt or two, but it turned out to be the entire suitcase of clothes. We had to wash all of them to get rid of the smell, even though they were just cleaned prior to our departure from Osaka.
After our trip to New Zealand, one day during work, I smelled the same odor coming from a coworker’s clothing. I then realized the odor we experienced on our clothes during our trip was from the polluted air in Osaka.
Now, more often than I wish, I smell the nasty Osaka-Kyoto air on my own clothes. Today is one of those days!
My kids and I played outside today. After only about an hour or so, we came back inside and our clothes had already picked up the bad odor. We had to immediately shed our clothes with what we had on and put something new on just to relax in the house in comfort from the rank odor.
The polluted air odor seems to come on days when there are lots of clouds in the sky and high humidity. If you happen to be outside on one of those types of days, you might want to take along another set of clothes to change into afterwards. Beware of cloudy days in Japan!
kbyte on January 5th 2008 in The Environment
