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Thanks, Zombie Billy Mays, that sounds useful! I should point out that this won’t work on portable devices (since you can’t hover), and if nothing pops up at first, it always works the second time (no idea why). Also, some things such as foods or seemingly odd phrases will also have the hover option for explanations, but will not appear blue (it’s distracting if too much is blue (also it’s a different plugin)). As for the payment, just give me some money next time you see me. I don’t even care what currency.
Since this weekend is my final, and I had a busy week, I don’t have the stuff from last weekend yet, so instead I brought you this! A night of fun, fireworks, and romance (not for me, but probably some people)! That was almost alliteration… Anyway, in the words of our savior, Super Mario, “ (though I still say it kind of sounds like nose pickle)!”
Thursday
For some reason, there was a big fireworks festival tonight. The road along the beach was filled with vendors selling chicken, fries, takoyaki (octopus balls), yakisoba (noodles), kakidori (snow cones with more syrup), crepes, and tons of other foods. As we were walking, we ran into two of my friends that we had eaten dinner with last time. After eating a walking for about an hour, we found a spot at the “beach” (I put beach in quotation marks because what we were sitting on wasn’t really sand, it was grass and dirt, but still about 20 feet from the water). The battleship (I don’t know why there was a battleship in the landlocked Lake Biwa, but whatever) that was launching the fireworks was about half a mile away from us, so we were really close. They started a countdown with fireworks shaped like a 9, 8, 7… which was pretty sweet. As much as I love going to fireworks in America, it’s always been more about the overall experience than just the fireworks. However, here, I was actually amazed by some of the fireworks. America doesn’t have anything on Japanese fireworks. Since we were so close, there would be times when they shot them in all directions, and we almost couldn’t see all of them at once because they filled our whole view. They had one shaped as (Hikone castle’s mascot (also one of the most famous mascots in Japan right now)). Another looked like a giant sunflower. Halfway through, they noticed some people who were swimming in the lake (which is banned during the fireworks), so they had to stop the fireworks for almost half an hour while we waited for them to get out. One of the boats had a search light that kept moving on them, then around looking for other swimmers. It looked just like from Lord of the Rings looking around the lake. Finally they resumed. The couple in front of us brought their 1-2 year old baby, which is always a great idea because babies’ favorite thing in the world is really loud noises that feel like they’re going to burst your ear drum. Brilliant. It actually fell asleep (or went deaf and stopped caring) around halfway through, but started crying again towards the end. According to what little I could understand of the announcements, they had fireworks from a bunch of different castles in the north. During the finale, they played a song that we instantly recognized (though first mistakenly as the wedding song). Usually with fireworks, Tchaikovsky’s is played, but instead we heard the graduation song (not the Vitamin C one, ). It was technically appropriate since JCMU’s closing ceremony is Saturday (though that wasn’t why they used it), but still kind of weird. It’s sad knowing that no other fireworks show will live up to that one for a long time, if ever…
Since my exam is tomorrow, I’m not entirely sure when I’ll release the stuff from last weekend, but probably Sunday or Monday at the latest (which works out since I’m not doing anything this weekend). Also, I’m working on a special video: Curtis’ Last Day. It’s simultaneously one of the greatest and stupidest (in a good way) things I’ve ever done. Stay tuned (I don’t think I can actually say that because you don’t really “tune” into a website… I’m not even sure if you tune into most things anymore… oh well)!
Let’s a-go
