From the outside, the house resembled some sort of modern day fortress this morning, since it had all the storm shutters still down over the windows (it was also raining buckets at the time, so their presence was probably justified). The TV news was full of stories of mudslides, washed out roadways and the like. I didn't see anything quite that distressing on the train ride in to Hikone, but all the rivers that the train crossed over were full of raging, muddy water.

The weather did lighten up to a drizzle around mid morning, which persisted for the rest of the day, and by evening the clouds had broken up and it was bright and sunny again. I feel like I'm bucking for a lightning bolt, but really? Was that all there was to the dreaded typhoon?

In other news, I'm really starting to run myself in circles with the whole broken laptop thing. I was blasé about the whole thing to start with, but I'm deciding that that is because I was in shock. Now that I've had time to think about it, not having a functional computer hand when I need it is driving me absolutely nuts. It hit me last night when I wanted to double check some of my translations for Elena's presents (this computer outage has completely thrown that off track), but in order to do that I had to spend ten minutes with my nose up against the screen until I could find that one part I was looking for. While doing that I thought about all the things I wasn't doing because my computer was being a jack ass, and it just completely ticked me off.

Afterwards I realized that this situation is completely intolerable. I simply do too many things every day that having a computer on hand, if not essential for, at least makes things much more convenient. The way it is right now, it feels like every day when I leave the Center I tie my a hand behind my back. I'm going to pray that it's just a loose wire, which is something I should be able to get fixed in store, same day, thus minimizing chances for misunderstanding and trajedy.

If it isn't… well, then I'm gong to be spending a lot of time really cranky.

I'm going to cut this one short - it's late, I'm tired, and I've just by thinking about my computer I've gotten myself all irritated again.