a few strange occurences
May 8th, 2006we were on the way to school when i looked up at the sky and saw a strange line drawn along the sky from one horizon to the other. i didn’t really think much of this – probably just a plane having some fun.
but then on the way home the same line was there – about 2 hours later. there was also some strange cloudish formation to one side of the line. i don’t know how it got there, but it looked quite impressive anyways 
update: my host mother said she saw two helicopters flying *very* close together this afternoon. beau says the trail was left by a military plane, which is quite likely with the military base located so close by. i’m kind of sad i didn’t get a photo of the helicopters though 
daniel’s bathroom got attacked by flying ants. there were seriously thousand of these little insects crawling around the bathroom and quite a few hundred in the kitchen and other rooms nearby. they seemed to be landing, shedding their wings and crawling around. craziness. luckily his mum was on her way home and i think it has been sorted out now.
on my way out of his house, i went to open the bike fence only to find that a group of bees have made themselves at home inside the tiny hole compartments inside the fence (!). so daniel if you read this, you might want to check your fence for the bee hive inside it sometime ^^;.
just for a little bit of testing, i’ve set up a shoutcast stream straight from jp radio. i have it set to Kiss FM at the moment, and encoding at 96kbit stereo. feel free to have a listen if you are that way inclined. i’m not sure how long i’ll keep it up – it depends if people actually want to listen, and whether i can get a better aerial for this radio, and pick up some of the better stations.
the shoutcast addy is http://202.225.241.228:8000/listen.m3u
oh i forgot to mention how fscking hot it was today – hitting a maximum of 26° at 1500, and a humidity of 64%. while it doesn’t sound that bad, temperature is a relative thing and this was the first time anyone in the country felt this kind of heat in quiiite a while. apparently its cooling down over the rest of the week, with some rain near the end/weekend.
