Well, it’s about 2PM in Japan right now which makes it difficult to stay coherent because I’ve been up since 7AM YESTERDAY. I took a couple of 5-10 minute naps in the past 30 hours. I’m also missing my vacation already. I suppose that’s life.

It was a beautiful day today, even though I never made it back outside after getting home. It was, however, in the 50’s and last week Nagasaki was in the 80’s. I didn’t even eat until dinnertime. I probably ate enough for the whole month the last couple of weeks anyway. All I did was go through a bunch of work email and do my laundry. There’s still stuff scattered throughout the house and I did give myself a bad haircut as well. Funny how the day went by so quickly.

I did get hit by a scam of sorts. I tried to pay my property taxes and the web site timed out on me before it gave me a confirmation and then recycled me back to the beginning. So I started over. 10 minutes later I got two confirmations, meaning I have to pay $12,000 and wait for them to refund half of it. There’s no way for the payment company or Multnomah County to stop the bank transfer because, well, they suck. And it was the faulty web page of “Official Payments of Auburn, Alabama” that did it to me. So, don’t pay your taxes online. Send them a check.