Coming of Age Day!

At the beginning of the year, specifically the second Monday in January, the Japanese celebrate all the children who turn 20 this year, thus finally becoming an adult. There is usually a festival to celebrate this, and presents are passed around and such.

Usually.

Beppu is apparently an exception. I went down with the intent of finding tons of food stands and maybe a shrine with craziness going on or something, but I was greeted with absolutely nothing.

Crapdammit.

Oh well. I finished off the Marvel minis collection while I was out at least. The secret figure is..... Stealth Armor Iron Man! Yeah, kind of a let down. The paint on it is actually really sloppy and everything. Blech.

Also got the urge to try some things from Paris Croissante again. The last time was met with undesirable results (what with the last time having random things filling my bread and all). I got a hotdog on a stick with bread on it (nope, not a corn dog) and something that was called "Royal White Bread". It didn't seem special which is good because I wanted it to be just a giant biscuit like it looked like. Turns out the hot dog stick was FILLED with mayo and the Royal White Bread had some sort of...awful goo inside of it.

I really need to stop taking chances on this crap.

Also, nothing to do with Japan and I know this is old (though I'm sure not all of you have seen it) but I still love it:

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can't read that then you're either not trying hard enough or you're an English major.