• The Week #106

    • The news of the week is Abe assassination. Unbelievable. I'm certain this will be dominating the news cycle for the months to come here in Japan. Such a needless loss of life.
    • After a nice lull in cases, the past couple of weeks, Covid cases have been on an upward trend, and are indeed doubling week over week. I think we've finally got the new omnicron variant here taking over. For whatever reason, people seem to be less worried about it this time around...perhaps pandemic fatigue? Or maybe as hospital numbers haven't really changed?
    • Leo saw his first movie in theaters. We went to tsujido to watch the latest Anpanman movie, and he did great. The theater had cushions for the kids to use that raises their seats up by about 4cm. Leo carried it to his seat and out of the theater, refusing my help. He didn't get up or talk the entire movie. Swarm tells me it's my first movie in theaters in 5 years.
    • The battery on my laptop is degrading much quicker than I had anticipated it would. The battery life had felt much shorter recently and indeed, CoconutBattery says it's at 93% of it's capacity. I imagine that's normal for a better that's 2 years old, but it's only been in used for less than 18 months 150-ish cycles. People on twitter tell me that that's pretty good...I just felt like it would have been 95% or 96%?
    • In Garden news, We planted a basil plant and a blueberry bush! The basil is giving off positive vibes next to the tomatoes. I have no idea how the blueberry bush is going to turn out, but having a bush makes it feel like we're eventually going to start putting plants into the ground, instead of planters, sometime.ย 

      About a month ago I tried a jalapeno from my plant and it still tasted like a bell pepper. This week I tried another one. Foolishly I took a big bite thinking "it's probably bell peppery". Boy was I wrong. The milk did nothing to soothe. My theory for the spiciness is that nacho channels his rage at the heat of summer directly into the chilis. Like solar panels, but instead of electricity we get spice.
  • Checkin to Single O Hamacho

    in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
    Tap coffee for a rare (first?) trip to the office on a Monday.
  • Checkin to 109 Cinemas (109ใ‚ทใƒใƒžใ‚บๆน˜ๅ—)

    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    ใ‚ขใƒณใƒ‘ใƒณใƒžใƒณใฎๆ˜ ็”ป Came to watch Anpanman. Leoโ€™s first movie theater visit.
  • in Chuo, Japan
  • Checkin to Single O Hamacho

    in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
    Love the coffee on tap here. An Aussie โ€œjaffleโ€? Basically a hot-sandwich.
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