Typhoon No. 14

September 5, 2005 | Laughing Knees | 11 Comments 

Af­ter watch­ing what has hap­pened when Hur­ri­cane Ka­t­rina hit the United States, it is dis­con­cert­ing to learn that the huge ap­proach­ing Ty­phoon No. 14 is big­ger and stronger than Ka­t­rina. We’ll find out in the next two days what the ty­phoon will bring. Al­ready, two days be­fore the ty­phoon the van­guard clouds dropped tor­ren­tial rains that flooded many ar­eas of Tokyo. The an­nual in­creas­ing strength and size of ty­phoons and flood­ing are prob­a­bly early signs of what we can all ex­pect in the years to come.

I’m sorry I’ve been off the blog for so much time. For a while there my com­puter was com­pletely down as my main hard drive de­cided to give up the ghost. Luck­ily all my data is backed up. I had “fun” for about a week learn­ing how to in­stall a hard drive, re­in­stalling all the soft­ware, and re­ar­rang­ing the desk­top sys­tem so that it would work with my work­ing style.

I’ve also been out­side a lot, get­ting my­self in shape, and spend­ing time with peo­ple face-​​to-​​face. I’ve even started writ­ing hand-​​written let­ters again. It all feels so ana­log. I don’t ex­pect to give up the blog, and I hope to start up writ­ing reg­u­larly again, but I also want to be care­ful with how much time I’m at the com­puter. I just don’t want to let the ex­pe­ri­ence of the real world slip by; there is too much to see and experience!

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