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Crumb Cascade

I stopped into Lawson to grab a small can of beer and a snack for my Saturday afternoon walk. Sometimes it's nice to stop for a break in a park or at Dounji Temple and just listen to the trees and bugs and have a cold beer. 

The snack was just a bite-sized fried chicken thing with curry in the middle. Man it hit the spot. I don't wanna be full; I just don't want my stomach growling.

A few minutes later I was walking down a backstreet and felt a really good fried chicken and curry burp coming on. I did a quick scan of my general vicinity and went for it, and man it was a spectacular emittance of curry-infused, fried chicken-seasoned virtuosity.

I had to kinda shake it off, actually. My head even recoiled a bit.

A second or two later I regained my senses and my balance and I was staring at a family of four sitting in their front garden having a mid-afternoon barbecue. And in a split second they all jerked their heads and pretended like they had never seen or heard me.

I walked on, grinning.


Eri took Osamu to soccer today, telling me I should rest "a little" after yesterday's Tokyo adventure with the boys. 

The car was in need of a good interior cleaning anyway, and I was planning on doing it this weekend, but after they got back from soccer I immediately jumped into action. Eri is totally fine with the boys eating crackers in the back seat. Like the kind that cascade crumbs. When I'm the driver, unless it's crumb-proof, snacks are not happening in the car.


Osamu made himself 10 yen for a job well done.


Kenzo had a Saturday field trip to Yagiyama Zoo with his Friends Club class. Eri took him to the bus stop this morning and snapped this picture just before he got on the bus.


I went to pick him up when he returned. He was the last kid on the bus. The two teachers who were sitting with him were all smiles. Kenzo and I waved the bus off as it left and when we got in the car to go home he showed me a trick the teachers taught him. It's the one where you bend and hide the upper half of one thumb and then use your other thumb to pretend like you split it in half. Kenzo could sort of do it. I acted amazed. I wouldn't mind if he got interested in magic.

I asked him what he saw at the zoo and he said, "Flamingos and monkeys and chimpanzees who ate their poop."

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