Deep thoughts

I don't do standing ovations; and when I do, it's because I feel guilty about being the last person to stand up.

Follow up on yesterday's train delay: apparently there was an "accident" on the tracks yesterday. A 56 year old man was lying face-down across the tracks somewhere between Tottori and Kurayoshi, and all trains were delayed for at least 90 minutes. It was estimated that 550 people were affected. Was he drunk, was he asleep, was he conscious, was he trying to kill himself? No idea, but I do know in fact that he was 56 years old, 550 people were affected, and the newspaper article was being very explicit about the orientation of his body relative to the tracks. Apparently these were the details that made the story. Also, I'm afraid to give any commentary on the fact that he was only lightly injured.

I'm really hatin' the fact that the Japanese coverage of the Olympics is Japan-centric to the extreme. From the coverage here it looks like Japan is DOMINATING the Olympics, winning medal after medal after medal (to be fair, they are 4th or 5th in total medal count so far). I missed everything so far: that white Baylor 400m guy, all of track and field, Patricia's bronze, diving, etc. Instead I saw plenty of judo, Japanese men's gymnastics, baseball, volleyball, 15 year old girl playing ping-pong, and hammer throw(the guy doesn't even look Japanese). If USA loses to Spain in 30 minutes and I don't catch any minute of it, I will promptly renounce my loyalty to Yamamoto.