[sumo] (OT) Today's rain and buying tickets

[Doreen Simmons]

Like several of the other regulars, I bought a book of tojitsu-ken on the 
first day of advance booking -- well worth avoiding the hassle of lining up 
each day, even though I didn't return from Australia till Day 2, and have 
been too busy to go even for my usual first hour on some other days. And 
yes, the rain cleared up later on today and we had a very muggy day, in the 
shadow of a severe typhoon that did a heap of damage in the south and west 
-- bad enough to kills people, blow trains over and rip the roofs off 
houses.

Incidentally my prediction that today would be the third consecutive full 
house came out correct. Even for a public holiday it was a very fair crowd. 
As I've been saying for the past year, sumo is on the upturn again (though 
getting in from tomorrow to Friday should not be too hard).

At 20:01 -0400 06.9.17, Barbara Ann wrote:
>As for the rain here, it did not deter the die-hard sumo fans, a long of
>whom waited patiently in the downpour for the box office to open. Hopefully,
>they all live very close to the Kokugikan, as well, so that they may go home
>and change before going in to the - as of yesterday - very chilly KK. And
>no, I was not one of those waiting out in the rain. With sumo becoming very
>popular again, I purchased my ticket for today, which is a national holiday,
>last week when I first arrived.
>
>And as I write, the sky is brightening.............
>
>BRTK
Doreen Simmons
<jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp>