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January 05, 2009
Inauspicious beginning
Today is the first "business" day of the new year. Not that it matters to me, heh heh, but does mark a return to normalcy after the long new year's holiday.
I prepared for today by doing something nasty to my ankle while playing softball yesterday. Besides being extremely painful at first, it was incredibly frustrating because I had been looking forward to playing all weekend and we had reserved the field for SIX hours. I made it through two and spent the rest of the time with my foot up on a bench watching everyone else have fun. Anyway, the ankle is bruised and swollen up like a balloon, but it does not hurt so much anymore and I think a couple of days on the couch with it elevated, iced and wrapped should put me back on track.
My ugly foot
And if not, well, I noticed this morning that the slow, stumbling pace (kind of a hopping, foot-dragging walking style) while taking my garbage to the bins is STILL faster than some of my neighbours'.
Which illustrates just how clever I was to leave big, busy Tokyo for the countryside. Living on your savings and needing an hour to walk the 500m to the grocery store is normal here.