I have been nursing a very bad cold all week, so I have done precious little to account for myself except manage to make it to work and then watch episodes of the Twilight Zone once I get home.  Fortunately, this is another three-day weekend so I have hopes I will be recovered by Tuesday—Monday is Coming of Age Day for twenty-year-old Japanese.

It is odd, on these chilled and stark afternoons, I miss Okinawa quite a bit.  The semi-tropics in winter are not to be missed…the churning somehow ghostly sea, the quiet, the watery sunshine, all the better for the season only lasting about two weeks of the year.