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The Week #97
by James- This week was Golden Week, and we were able to enjoy it a lot this year. We broke in the BBQ, which was great fun and quite tasty. The grill mostly lived up to its smokeless claims as well. I'm really looking forward to grilling some more.
- Like last year's Golden Week, I took my bike out for a long ride. I think it's been about that long since I last really rode it. This time I went 40km down to enoshima and did a loop back. I tweeted the route I took. Compared to last year there were so. many. people. in and around enoshima. Thankfully I was on a bike and was able to cut through and take the quiet backstreets.
- We went and got Yumi's and Leo's new passports. It's been a huge relief for Yumi as we got married right after she got her last passport and, although we updated her name, every time we flew there was a huge delay at check in. One time it nearly caused her to miss her flight. For Leo, now if something happens and we suddenly need to go somewhere, we can.
As the passport center is near Yamashita-park/Minatomirai and that area, we rode the big ferris wheel. It's in the Guinness World Records as the largest Ferris wheel with a clock in the world...oddly specific...π§ - The trip I talked about last week to London, UK was made official this week. Tickets and hotel have been booked...and thinking of having to manually update all of my checki ns for 2-weeks made me prioritize trip mode. You can activate trip mode by selecting a trip in your site settings. When trip mode is active trip mode, all new posts made via the micropub endpoint will be associated with that trip automatically. New posts made via the web interface will have the trip pre-selected.Β
There's a lot of fun things I could do with this, like updating the trip list/detail/ site header to indicate that I'm currently traveling...maybe next time...
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Checkin to Hamleys
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Getting Leoβs first passport. They have a great shop here with suitcases and travel goods, so youβre ready to go! -
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The Week #96
by James- We finally went to Tokyo Disneyland after we had to cancel our initial trip because of catching covid. This was the first trip I've taken since I built Tanzawa and was able to field test Trips in realtime and chronicle my Tokyo Disneyland Trip.Β It worked quite well.
Checkins with Swarm came in nicely. I had to manually associate the posts with the Trip afterwards, so going forward I want to add a "trip mode" which will automatically associate all micropub posts with a trip if it's active (GitHub issue). I still need to add the Twitter syndication links for the tweets that Swarm sent, but it's a pain.
Long-term, I think I want to build checkins in to Tanzawa itself and syndicate them to Swarm/Twitter. Maybe it's about time I start thinking more about #84, Syndicate natively to Twitter & Mastodon. It fits in more with the POSSE philosophy, too.Β - I went for coffee (and then a brew) with a friend who I hadn't seen since after the first wave in subsided in 2020. We agreed to meet at 16:30 at Kanai station. By about 16:50, he was nowhere to be seen...which is out of character for him and I was starting to get a bit annoyed, so I called him up to see where he was and he was also at Kanai station...JR. I was at the subway gates. All annoyance disappeared in an instant because of this simple mixup.
It was really good to have a chat about life and the world. Slowly, it feels like things are returning to something that resembles the before times. - We bought a small (by American standards) Lotus Grill XL BBQ. I've been thinking about getting a grill for years, but never did because I worried about smoke. We used this one about a month ago at a neighbor's house and it is, indeed, "smokeless". It does this by completely covering the coals, preventing fat / oil from landing on them. Really looking forward to using it in the next couple of days.
- It appears I'll be in London from the middle of this month for 2-weeks on a trip for work. Super exciting, but also makes me little low-key anxious. Mostly as a) I've never been to the UK before and b) first trip since/during the pandemic, and c) haven't left Japan in 5.5 years.
Not entirely sure of my exact schedule yet, but if you're in London and want to grab a coffee to chat Python/IndieWeb email me.
- We finally went to Tokyo Disneyland after we had to cancel our initial trip because of catching covid. This was the first trip I've taken since I built Tanzawa and was able to field test Trips in realtime and chronicle my Tokyo Disneyland Trip.Β It worked quite well.
