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Nichinan, 2025.12.30

My run without a migraine is already over. I'm now down one of my precious few remaining pills. It's going to be quite a year. We had a lovely lunch at a place in one of the old samurai residences at the "top" of the old castle town of Obi. I say top because that's where the high-ranking samurai lived. We toured the castle grounds and went to see the streets where they have koi in the gutters. I guess that sounds funny. There are also some frantic-looking trout as well, a new addition that I'm not sure works.

koi in a street-side gutter

Three good things that happened today:

  1. Got over the migraine and got on with my day
  2. The koi thing
  3. Lunch!