Bad Cold

This cold sucks. I started to feel it on Monday. Took vitamins and got medicine from the doctor. It progressively got worse as the week went on and now it's Saturday and it feels like my head is about to explode. Hopefully two day of rest will help me shake this thing.

Epic Fail!!!!!

This was my feeble attempt at getting video of one of the sumo wrestlers as he came to the tournament. It is so cool because the higher ranked wrestlers come to the arena by car or taxi and the fans are roped off but can see them as they come in. Unfortunately, I installed the new iPhone operating system that morning and hadn't gotten the hang of it yet!

Sumo Today!

We are heading to Tokyo today to watch the September Sumo Tournament! It should be a lot of fun!

This is Hakuho who is the Grand Champion. He is 6-0 and is leading in the tournament. Can't wait to watch him win!

Stocks

Who knew? We wanted to transfer some money into Alex's custodial stock account with Sharebuilder. Little did we know that you have to be a resident in the U.S. to use the service we've been using for 10 years. They told us that they have to shut down all of our accounts and we need to find a brokerage firm here in Japan to transfer our stocks into. Yeah right, like we'll be able to do that since everything here is in English...NOT! Spending my Sunday trying to find an international brokerage firm and it has not been easy. All of the U.S. firms require that you live in the U.S.

Alex!

What an amazing son we have! After coming home from work, I told Alex that we had to take the recycling out (if you live in Japan, then you know what I mean) so we went through the glass bottles and got them ready. He went to take them out and asked me to start on the plastic bottles and cans since we had a lot because we were in America the last recycling day and missed it. I went out to the side of the house and there was nothing there. It took me a minute but then I realized he had already taken everything out already! Your mother and I truly appreciate you Alex!