The Week #308

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  • 🩺 We went to a local university festival and it was a lot of fun. It's not a regular festival (though there is yakisoba!) as there are a lot of educational / experience opportunities and the money you do pay (when required) acts as a donation. The first big standout thing we did this year at the Yokohama medical association where Leo and I got to wear the white doctor's coat, then practice our electrocautery skills on an eggplant.
  • 🫨 The second standout thing was this big earthquake simulator truck. Inside the truck they had a table and 4 chairs setup, then they play the earthquake alert noise and it starts shaking like a shindo-7 quake. Because it's a simulator it's not scary at all, but if one that big came out of nowhere it would be quite frightening.
  • 🤖 I decided it's time I start really using the family computer for programming and such and installed OpenCode + local models to learn, but also start getting things done on Tanzawa again. It's an older model so it's not quite as useful as the new ones, but it is fun to look at activity monitor, see the ram completely filled, and hear the fan turn on on the otherwise silent iMac.
  • ☕️ It's getting quite hot lately and the AC unit at the jikka is old and undersized – a winning combination for keeping cool. I went with my FIL to Fujisawa to check out some new ones. Good news is we decided and it's done. Bad news is it won't get installed until July. Hopefully the current one doesn't break before then... Afterwards we got a coffee and had a chat – I always enjoy these catchups and learning what it was like growing up in post-war Japan with enough siblings to field a baseball team.