• Checkin to 南蛮屋 湘南台店

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    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    Restocking and enjoying a cuppa of Bolivia 🇧🇴.

  • The Week #247

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    • ❄️ On Wednesday it snowed in Tokyo. From the office it was pure white outside and the snow flew past the window almost horizontally. It didn't last as it was nice and sunny in the afternoon.
    • 🌸 The very next day we had off  to celebrate Spring and, almost if on cue, the weather warmed right up with the highs being in the upper teens and low 20's. I am more than ready for spring, but already not looking forward for what's next.

      We spent the day in Minatomirai, which feels like it's been a while since we've gone there as a family. At the red brick warehouse they had, what I can only describe as a dog festival, because every other person had their dog with them. To quote the late great P.D. Eastman, "Big dogs, little dogs, red dogs, blue dogs, yellow dogs, green dogs, black dogs, and white dogs are all at the dog party!". I wish we had brought Sophie (and had one of the doggie backpacks people use to bring their dogs on public transit).

      Leo practiced jump rope while watching the dogs near the water. It's a pretty picturesque place to learn how to do double-jumps(?? where you jump once and the rope does 2 full rotations). 
    • 🎥 After jumping rope for a while we went to see the new Doraemon movie at World Porter. The theater was quite nice when it was built ages go, but it's starting to show its age. The arms didn't move on the regular seats felt and  the rows felt quite close together, like I was in economy class on a long haul flight. It didn't prevent me from getting a bit of sleep during the film.
    • 🎹 Leo's been getting into his melodica/pianica and learned to play the theme song from Dragon Ball GT. Perhaps cooler than that was watching him think of a nursery rhyme, while figuring out how to play it, writing down the notes so he build up to the entire song.
    • 🎶 A new Japanese Breakfast album came out (Apple music). I've only listened to it once in full, but 👍 from me.
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    Lunch Run
    Calves were tight and never loosened up. Cut it short.

    3.5km

    23.1min

    18.2m climbed

    146.7avg bpm

  • Checkin to Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (横浜赤レンガ倉庫)

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

  • Checkin to KUA`AINA

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    Avocado burger time
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    Spring Run
    Lovely spring day after hail and snow yesterday morning.

    4.5km

    31.9min

    30.4m climbed

    151.8avg bpm

  • The Week #246

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    • 🇬🇧 The week in the UK, as always, was over before I knew it. I'm glad to be home and with the fam, but London is growing on me. Maybe it's as I'm always quite central and it's possible to walk to work? Maybe it's all the Brommies around town makes me a bit jealous?

      I could see the cold/wet get annoying, but also I reckon one adapts by buying appropriate clothing? I'm looking forward to going back again sometime, maybe this summer?
    • 🚗 In 2016, wanting to be a part of the change I wanted to see in the world, I bought one share of TSLA. I would have bought more, but it was all I could afford. When I buy single stocks, I treat it as betting and if I sell it for anything over what I paid, it's a win. I got lucky on this one. 

      Through the years, I hadn't really considered selling my stock as they were still making good on their end of the electrification of cars and the grid. Sometimes I'd get annoyed, like when I found out that hyperloop existed solely to kill interest in public transit in favor of cars, but as a whole the good outweighed the bad. I could rationalize that away though, at least the end game was fewer fossil fuel cars on the road.

      The past few months I started to question if that was still the case. Rather than feeling like I was voting in favor of the change I wanted to see, I found myself feeling embarrassed and a bit of shame. Even if I didn't mention it to anyone, I knew.

      All of this to say, I sold it all. I considered keeping just 1 share, so that I was in the same position as when I started, but ultimately, buying it was purely emotional and selling was as well. Sure, I may lose out on some long term gains, but this stock was never about pure profit for me. Maybe at some point in the future I'll be able to buy a share again.

  • Checkin to Tokyo International (Haneda) Airport (HND) (東京国際空港 (羽田空港))

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    in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Home 🛬

  • Checkin to Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge

    Hanging at the lounge waiting for me flight back to Tokyo.

  • Checkin to Caffè Nero

    Killing time before I can check-in.
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