There was a weird amount of streetcar riding in my dream last night. Enough that I looked up "trolley" on a dream meaning website ^*.

Looks like it means that I am open-minded, starting to take a new journey in life, and are taking little steps toward your goals and pacing yourself.

Wonder where I am headed to?

^{* For fun}

A tomato seed from our veranda compost bucket is going crazy. We now, unintentionally, have a two foot tall, healthy tomato plant growing in our apartment.

If you touch it, your hands smell like tomato. It's starting to flower so next is hopefully a tomato.

The power of compost.

A magnitude 7 earthquake off the coast of Ishikawa today at around 16:15. Our place was moving and we're all the way in Tokyo so you know it was a big one. Tsunamis around 1 meter have been hitting the west coast still and it's been three hours after the first quake. The aftershocks seem to be slowing down but there were aftershocks around every 10-15 minutes for a while. Things look pretty beat up there on the TV news. On a day where people are normally partying with their families, everyone had to evacuate to higher ground to wait things out.

Hope everyone is hanging in there on the west coast of Japan.

避難(ひなん)する = to take refuge

きっと = surely I always forget how to say "surely" in Japanese.

Going out to see off a couple friends from Spain. They are heading home after a long, busy trip in Japan. Hopefully get some karaoke in tonight.

Yesterday was gnarly but today wasn't. We're leaving on a weekend trip tomorrow so I think it might be the time pressure from that that gave me a boost. I notice that boost on rehearsal days as well.

Got to hangout with someone who is just starting his journey into music. Fun to hear about the differences and samenesses about doing a starting a music project at 20 years old in 2022 vs. when I started in 1990.

Went to ShimoKitazawa to rehearse today. It's super hot out so everyone is kinda moving slow, sweating a lot, and there was a lot of people with hand fans. It's "type about how hot it is" hot outside right now.

Took a rare trip to Odiaba today to hang out with friends and check out the ocean at sunset. We always used to bring guests there when they visited Japan but stopped going because it's a bit more work to get there. There's an extra transfer that makes less of a choice than other areas. It's a lot more built up now which Ives told was because of the olympics. Got to see the giant life-sized Gundam finally. Pretty cool in real life.

Every thing was soaked outside today after the storm that rolled through. Super cool out too which was awesome after the heatwave the last couple weeks. ## Today's Word - 水分 = liquid