Finally in summer mode I guess

 I wore shorts and a short-sleeved shirt yesterday and I will do so today. Normally I change to summer clothes around April 1, like they do in Japan. But I had to dress warm again as it was getting cold overnight. Pretty soon it'll be time to get out the undershorts and Crocs to wear inside the shop here. 

I ordered "Japanese For Dummies" last night, for a bit under $20 and will see how I do with that. The "For Dummies" series of books are actually pretty good for getting up to speed on something. It seems a bit less serious than the Genki series, more for someone who's gonna go to Japan and be able to survive, navigate train stations and restaurants and not commit too many serious social gaffes. 

I practiced last night and that's good, but I'm only practicing when I've got other things all done so it's kind of last priority. I'm not sure if that's the best way to get good at something. 

I did a little looking around and this makes a lot more sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit I was never able to see a face on the moon but a rabbit with a mortar making moon cakes or maybe, just maybe, the kibi dango Momotaro set out with to vanquish the evil oni, that I can get with. The story of the self-sacrificing rabbit is in the first Osamu Tezuka "Buddha" book so I wanted to study more on it. 

I'm having such a hard time getting motivated that I just packed the things that are in boxes, and will try to put the things in bubble mailers into various mail boxes over the weekend or something. 

I found some packing stuff, and got some pork and shrimp on noodles from Pho Bel Air. They had the TV on Fox news and wow, it's just a constant barrage of fearmongering. Something about "Make USA A Christian Nation" hell the founders didn't even want that and I think one of them swore on a Koran when he became president. Seeing that crap is kind of like not reading the NRA's "American Rifleman" magazine say, in the 1970s when it was really about target shooting and a lot of cool scientific stuff, and opening a copy now, where it's close to a Nazi propaganda rag. And there are people who watch the Fox station for hours a day voluntarily.