observations by jonn

 It just occurred to me that the expression "when life gives you lemons make lemonade" supposes that lemons are bad. Like you're making the best of a bad situation. Who doesn't like lemons? Also I like how it goes like... "Life gave you something sour instead of something sweet? Well, water it down and cover it up with something else sweet that presumably life also gave you."

 I've been drinking at a bar for a few hours. I walk to the bathroom which is two buildings over and shared by several establishments. I open the bathroom door and uhh there's someone in using it who forgot to lock the door lol. so I close it.  A kid comes up and waits in line behind me, I think probably 20 years old. With no hesitation he immediately says to me (in japanese) 日本人ですか？ and I am like uhh there is obviously no way he thinks I'm japanese. and this is such an odd conversation opening line to someone you've never said a word to and who probably doesn't understand what you say in the first place. So I respond えーと… トイレの中の人ですか？ and he just laughs. and then he... really starts laughing. and then he starts crying and laughing. and then the person came out of the bathroom and i went into the bathroom. and when i came out, he wasn't there anymore. the end.

 This afternoon I was taking some macro shots of cherry blossoms and people kept coming over to take pictures of/with it so when they came over I retreated into the shadows. At one point a.. couple(?) a man and woman in their early 50s I think walked over to the tree so I went back to sit at the bench and review pictures. The guy was probably American Caucasian and the girl was asian but not japanese or chinese. If I had to guess, they met 4 months ago.  Anyway, she takes out a camera and hands it to the guy and says "ok now you need to say.. 'its February the 22nd in Nakameguro, the weather is 17 degrees, and the cherry blossoms are starting to bloom.'" and he goes wait I'm taking the video of you. Shouldn't you say it? And she angrily is like no I'm posing here by the pictures, so you have to say it. And he tries saying and she just yells at him that he forgot to say the date. And does it again and this time he paused before saying one of the lines. And ...

 So on my way to work there is a park I cut through. It has a bridge called "firefly bridge" but it's kind of run-down and it's kind of like.. just covered in dirt and mud because presumably rain has carried the dirt to the bridge over the years. Anyway today the bridge has a new sign and now it reads "dirt bridge"

LOL I just ran into the lady who works at a 711 on my way to work. Or I should say she almost ran into me while running a red light on her bike Very memorable person because she has scolded me at least twice when she noticed I passed her merchandise with the barcode facing her in a way that would be easy to scan. *turns onigiri barcode on table face-up* *slaps hand away* やらなくていいよ！

 I had a dream the other night where people around me were all talking about reticles but I didn't know what a reticle was So I had to look it up in a dictionary when I woke up