The sky is blue today!  I took the opportunity to take some pictures.  I consulted my Chiba-ken festival book, and found today to be the last day of the Tako Gion-sai festival in neighboring Tako-machi.  The thermometer outside my apartment read 37'C.  This temperature happens to be exactly 98.6'F.  Sounds fine, I'll be invisible to heat-guided missiles.  When I arrived, I found the town to be fairly empty.  This guy was fishing in the channel the guide book showed the townspeople floating down in boats.  I investigated a little further, and found the events were actually to take place at night.