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The Week #321
by James- π« As we're reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory before bed, I tried to see if Leo would watch the original and to my surprise, he watched all of it! He's a huge fan of the oompa loompas. As we're still reading the book, he's remembering the dialogue from the movie and repeating it.
- π We had the first states of autumn in Kanto over the weekend with a low of 20 degrees. It felt fantastic and, despite me not drinking pumpkin spice lattes, I found myself wanting a pumpkin spiceΒ latte. It's meant to cool down Friday this week, but I doubt it's for good.
- π« School is back in session. While it is nice to get back to routine, that routine also brings with it routine challenges. I know it's summer camp school vs regular school, so it's not fair comparison, buuut when he got home from school this summer he'd blurt out and tell us what he learned i.e. he was excited and having fun, while at his regular school even if you ask him what he learned he doesn't remember. Something must change.
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The Week #320
by James- β½οΈ Ted Lasso is back on (π). I'm very glad it's been renewed and given he's coaching the women's team in Richmond, it opens an entire new storyline. The first 3 episodes have been fantastic.
- π We had one of Leo's classmates and family over pizza and it was a success. It was nice to be able to talk with other foreign parents about school, raising families in Japan and the like. I also have a sudden unexplained urge to visit Sri Lanka. Maybe a good use for the miles I've been accumulating.
- 𧽠The dishwasher broke. During the dry cycle it just made some beeps and started flashing. As it broke on the weekend I had to wait for the manufactuer to open so I could call to get someone to repair it. I was expecting to have to do all my dishes by hand for a week, but they were able to come out and fix it same day. There was a leak somewhere in it that had been going for a while, so replacing a part fixed it up. They're meant to last 10 years, so hopefully this repair gets it another 3 to actually reach the target lifespan.
The repair man was fairly soft spoken. As we were finishing up, I got semi-nihongo jouzued, but it was in the context of when he saw my name and called he was nervous because...would he be able to communicate. And that I could communicate and communicate well, he was relieved. Recently he's been doing a lot of repairs for Chinese customers and that's been difficult.
Yay for me, but also,Β I can't help but wonder if experiences like his bubble up and is one of the drivers behind the surge with the far right in Japan and the increasingly strict requirements for permanent residency. (No idea where he stands on all of it, it wasn't a political conversation and just something he said in passing.)
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π They're Made out of Meat
by JamesRather than say something was/was not written by AI, should we instead say it was "made by meat π". I kinda like it... -
The Week #319
by James- π€ Jet lag coming back was brutal. Waking up at 2am after 5 hours sleep feeling fully rested is great...until about 3pm. Fully covered now though.
- πͺ Since Leo went to the British Museum and saw the ancient Egyptian artifacts, he's been on a bit of (his first!) history kick. To encourage this wider range of thinking, we found that a museum with high quality replicas in Yokohama called Mystery of Tutankhamen and made a visit. It was pretty cool. While looking about I also learned that Leo knows how to make a mummy/how you remove the braaaaiiins.
- π I finished reading Team: Getting Things Done with Others, a book co-authored by David Allen (of GTD) about applying GTD to teams (makes sense, right?). If you're a fan of GTD and work on a team, I recommend giving it a read.
- π€ Being a paying member of Kagi (it's great, you should subscribe to your search engine and such), I'm trying to use more of it. As of late, I am getting into(?)Β Assistant. Essentially it's an AI chat interface, but I can group them into chats if I want to save them longer than 24 hours. This is proving handy as I research various topics (as one does). Aaaand I just found out there's a kid mode, I may be upgrading to a Family Plan soon.
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