The Week #173

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  • 🚙 We took the car to Tokyo to my sister-in-law's house. On the highway I can use the automatic driving features (pro pilot), so it keeps the lane and adjusts speed based on the distance of the car in front of me and so forth. It feels like it's slightly easier to turn on than my old car.

    We left with 90% charge and by the time we go home we had 50% charge remaining, which is about what I was expecting.
  • 🌳 In Tokyo we went to Kinuta park and it was a lot of fun. I really do enjoy that park because not only is it huge with a lot of trees and paths through said trees, but it also has some little shops that sell fried rice / noodles, ice cream, frisbees, and coffee. Just don't get the ice coffee, it was pretty bad.

    At the park we played some badminton. I thought I was bad at badminton because it was difficult to see the white birdy flying through the sky, so we bought some pink ones that would be easier to see and nope, didn't make a difference. I've come to accept that I'm just not a naturally gifted badminton player.

    Mostly at the park I was in charge of watching the kids, which meant following them about, helping them keep balance on the balance beams and so forth. I also took my camera with me, and I should have started doing this 5 years ago when I bought the thing.
    Kinuta park
  • 💦 They're making progress turning the field next to my house into housing. They've dug some big holes in the ground and laid some concrete. They also hooked up the water mains to that area, which meant they had to cut into some of my land to connect the pipes.

    When I bought my house, the road directly in front of my house was too narrow to meet current code for safety for having a houses on both sides of the street. So my parcel if land is split into two chunks: the large chunk where I live and I can do whatever I want that is zoned for 2-story residential...and the 20 - 30cm strip that is an offset that is zoned as common(?) use. i.e. I own it...but I can't really do anything with it as it's an extension of the road. Visually, it looks like a normal divide in the concrete.

    They're running the water pipes directly in front of that land, but to connect to the pipe meant they had to dig into that common concrete...and now there's a nice square of asphalt in my otherwise uniform concrete offset. 
  • 🍂 It's been getting quite cool overnight / in the morning. Recently it's been about 12C in the morning. As the afternoons have been a lovely 23 - 24, you've really got to dress in removable layers to keep comfortable. The humidity of summer is completely gone as well.
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