On the Roof

The manager actually let me borrow the key to the roof this time, and I went up all by myself! There was a cute girl keeping him company, and he was working through his lunch break handling her departure, if I read the situation right.
Anyway, went up on the roof to watch the lightning, but I missed the best part watching from my room and talking to the manager. Still, it was pretty cool. Gotta go drop off some ninja stuff to the next person in The Conspiracy, so I'm off.

Storm

This is actually the strongest storm we've had yet. It's got decent lightning, thunder, and the rain is coming down in pretty good quantity. My back door is about four feet back from the edge of my veranda and about six back from the nearest open sky.
The light/sound speed difference is ranging between one - make that a third of a second - and about ten seconds, with an average around three. That's 300 feet, half a mile, and two miles, respectively.
I imagine the close one hit Jusco, as the top is covered in lightning rods. I am... somewhat tempted to go over there... Don't worry, I won't. Camera gear is too sensitive to EM since I've got digital.

"Arashiyama" means "storm mountain"

Hamid and I were going to go to Arashiyama today, but he kind of fell asleep. I went over to see what was going on he said something along the lines of "I wish I could just sleep..." so I came back and I've been poking at the Internet for a while. I got some nice pictures yesterday, so I'll put some of those up.

[Edit: Looks like it'll have to wait. We've got a pretty decent thunderstorm going on right now, so I've got nearly all my electronics unplugged. All that's left is my wireless router, and that's only plugged in because someone else is using the connection as well. I Wi-Fi router I can replace for about $50, but the rest would get pretty pricey to replace.
Maybe I should follow Hamid's example and just take a nap?]