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It`s been another few days of normality for Herr Quain you see. Since the excitement of the danjiri my life has been one of onsen, frisbee and Japanese television. Reiko`s grandmother has been poorly recently so her mum went to Yamaguchi to see her. Her mother gets up at around four or five everyday and takes the dog for a walk at that time. As she has gone I kindly (read stupidly) agreed to walk the dog for the last few days. When the dog wants to be walked in the morning he will start moaning and whining loudly. If that doesn`t work, he starts to bark. He is clever enough though to know that too much barking will annoy the family. Reiko`s parents sleep in the room next to where the dog is chained up and he often knocks on the door to wake them up and get his morning walk.

It hasn`t been that bad as I get up at the last moments of nighttime and then as I walk the dog the sun rises and the day begins. It is also warm enough to walk around in shorts and a t-shirt at that time. Today a record was broken as the temperature has risen above 30 degrees for the 89th day this year in Osaka. The problem with morning dog walking is that I can`t get back to sleep easily until about two or three hours later and so wake up again at around midday. But I think I deserve that lie in. Don`t you?

Yesterday I managed to traverse the Osakan railway and subway system on my own in order to get to frisbee in Morinomiya Park in the centre of the city. Milestones. Today being Monday it is National Respect for the Aged day and everybody has the day off. I saw an advert on television for the new Nintendo DS and that`s about all I can think of.