Last week I was beat. This week I’m sick. But I’ll be fine in a day or two, just a bit of a nose/throat thing but no sign that I might be losing my voice again or anything like that. Anyway, I’d been feeling so beat but last Saturday I got off a bit early and after I got home we walked down the hill and checked out the fireworks: 
We got a bit closer than this but not really any good pictures. It was nice, we’d planned to go see them real close up but since the boy wasn’t fully recovered we decided we’d try and see them from our balcony. Problem is, the nice big trees that separate us from the Honda R&D facility totally blocked our view so we headed out to get a little better look. Anyway, they were nice but I always feel kinda the same about fireworks. Kinda boring after 10 minutes. After we got home I was messing around with the boy after his shower and I got this cool picture, not exactly what I was going for but you can never be too picky when it comes to kids doing “kid” things: 
On Sunday we wanted to head over to the other side of the station to see what we could see in the way of performances or food stalls and whatnot so we headed out in the afternoon after the boy’s nap. Just as we headed out we noticed a couple of rain drops but nothing serious. When we got about halfway to the grocery store (which is about halfway to the station) we started getting it a bit more and more. We thought about heading back to wait it out but in my infinite wisdom I thought we could just hang at the grocery store as we both thought it would probably be over in 20 mins or so. It wasn’t. It started dumping! 
It was raining a lot so we made the best of it, I got a beer and we got some bread and sat in the bakery: 
Also, we were joined by a bunch of other people as well: 
It started dumping more and more and eventually torrents of water were flooding the streets and eventually into the front entrance of the store even and the staff had to pile up sandbags to try and keep the store dry. You can see the water flooding up from the sewer in this shot: 
So basically that day was bagged and we did our grocery shopping and ran home when the rain had died down a tad but still arrived soaked. It was not a perfect weekend but I felt pretty refreshed. Monday and Tuesday however were super busy and I was feeling overwhelmed again until I had a sweet late cancel Tuesday evening to set things right. And then Wednesday I got to start really late and so, while the wife headed to her school to tell them she wouldn’t be coming back to continue her doctoral studies, I headed to Akihabara to get a new home button (actually the connector) for her iPhone so I could try and fix it for her. After searching around and finding the two locations the wife gave me were closed on Wednesdays I finally found and picked one up and headed home to wait for the wife to come back. When she got home I grabbed her phone and got to ripping it apart. Here’s what an iPhone looks like in half: 
All-in-all it wasn’t too difficult to do but getting the digitizer separated was the most difficult but it only took me an hour or an hour and a half maybe. Probably much easier with a heat gun instead of a hair dryer but oh well, got ‘er done! And now I just need to order me a new battery and take mine apart, batter replacement will be much easier. Speaking of the iPhone, been messing around with some new apps lately but might get into that later. Maybe.
And then yesterday we hung out mostly at home and while the boy was taking a nap we got hit by another crazy storm with torrential rain and crazy thunder. Love that kind of weather. And then we went shopping and had dinner, this: 
Kinda weird coloring. But tasty.
Anyway, that’s about it for now I think, back to work tomorrow and then Sunday off, hope I feel better by then. Hope I don’t feel like shit tomorrow. At least I’m off early tomorrow and it’s not too crazy a day either. Oh yeah, and SEAHAWKS WON!!! FOOTBALL’S BACK BABY!!!
