Crazy heat

Man, its been crazy hot here. The AC at my home has been blasting nonstop for the past few weeks. A guy who I play basketball with said he just bought an AC unit and got it installed yesterday. YESTERDAY??? I thought that was insane that he survived this long without AC, especially at night.

Since the start of the heat wave, I basically stopped playing basketball outside. This past weekend though a couple of people convinced me to give it a shot. Man.. I sort of regret I did that now. My game wasn't bad but I only managed to play a few games before I felt myself suffering from heat exhaustion. It was cloudy earlier when I originally agreed, however once we arrived to the court, the bright sun made its debut and burned everything in its way, including my now damaged dark skin.

Not being able to play basketball every week and some convincing by a couple people brought me back to my old basketball team. I played my first game in over half a year with them recently. It was actually pretty good. The system changed a bit and there were not as many people as before. We were running more games than just doing drills which is the way I like it. I am happy so far and I think I will continue to join the practices from now on.

Finally, obon is coming up in almost 2 weeks and I'll be taking some time off and heading west to Tottori. I haven't been there in about a year and am looking forward to it. I would say I can't wait to eat super fresh sushi at reasonable prices, but I had a sushi explosion yesterday at a local kaiten sushi. The only thing I am not looking forward to is the super long drive in potentially bad holiday traffic there...