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  • The Week #213

    Jul 30, 2024
    by James
    • ๐Ÿฎ This week our neighborhood association held a festival on the elementary school grounds. Last year when we went it was a sneak peak into Leo's future school. This year it is the regular stomping grounds.

      We dressed in appropriate summer matsuri clothing, yukata and jinbei. As soon as we arrived we ran into some of Leo's school friends. We ate shaved ice, corn dogs, and yaki-soba. I also downed a couple of cold ones to help keep my hydrated on the muggy, windless summer night.

      My favorite memory of the night was Leo saying that he didn't want to dance in a line...but as soon as the music started, as if it's in his blood, he started dancing. True to his word, he did not dance in the line with everyone else.
    • ๐Ÿป I finished watching Season 3 of The Bear. No spoilers here, but I really do enjoy the show. I liked how this season they spent an episode zooming in on each of the main characters to really help develop them beyond what you see in the kitchen.
    • ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ I tied the most number of runs I've ever made in a year. Go me!
    • ๐Ÿš€ We learned that a dear friend and ex-colleague of my wife, Lorna Onizuka, passed away. We met in Houston when my wife was working at JAXA. The encouragement she gave and the inspiration she was...I'm grateful to have known her. She was such an important part of supporting the JAXA and the Japanese astronauts in Houston. Her impact cannot be understated and she will be missed.
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  • Jul 30, 2024
    by James
    5am run club
    Last 5am swim non-swim for a while.

    5.0km

    35.3min

    22m climbed

    156.7avg bpm

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  • Jul 29, 2024
    by James
    5am run club
    Less like a jacuzzi, but only as I went out almost immediately after waking.

    4.3km

    30.4min

    20.2m climbed

    151.9avg bpm

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  • Jul 27, 2024
    by James
    Morning Swim ๐ŸŠ
    Low of the high 20โ€™s this week had me skip a run and I could hear myself trying to convince me to not go out this morning. Heโ€™s dumb. Donโ€™t listen to him.

    4.4km

    30.1min

    19m climbed

    153.2avg bpm

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  • Checkin to Brewerโ€™s Coffee And Bar

    Brewerโ€™s Coffee And Bar 35.668198 139.740708
    Jul 26, 2024
    by James
    in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
    Avocado toast. ๐Ÿ˜‹
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  • ๐Ÿ”— The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    Jul 25, 2024
    by James
    I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
    I was more of an xmms guy myself growing up (desktop linux), but I love how...human the artifacts are in these corrupted skins. More like this, please.
    1. Tagged with
    2. software
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  • The Week #212

    Jul 23, 2024
    by James
    • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Joe Biden is no longer in the race for POTUS. It seems like Harris might be the actual nominee on the ballot. I'm not entirely sure where she stands on the issues I care about, but I have a hunch they're miles closer than the old guy that's left in the race. Please don't mess this up. (Opinions my own yada yada yada).
    • ๐Ÿ“ฑ I spent about 3 hours at the local docomo shopping changing my cellphones/internet from an MNVO (owned by docomo) to docomo proper. Nowhere on earth should it take that long to fill in a form and get a new sim card.ย 

      Initially they told me I'd need my passport in order to change over. Informing them that I was a permanent resident and having the manager peep over the cubicle to give me a once over confirmed I didn't need one. Our turn came around to talk to a sales person and, to my surprise a Nepalese guy came out. We did the entire exchange in Japanese until the very end when we both decided to have a chat in English.

      He changed me over to a trainee to fill in the application because it'll be faster (it was not faster). But I can understand why โ€“ I'm a good exception cases from the regular customer that you probably get to fill in forms / screens that usually aren't relevant.

      The main reason for the switch, besides not having enough data to last the month (I stream music while running), is that I can use it abroad at no extra charge against my regular data allotment.
    • ๐Ÿป Season 2 Episode 6, "Fishes", of The Bear. Holy shit was that intense. Maybe the best episode of television I've ever watched. I foolishly watched it on my commute in to the office and I was glued the entire time.

      It's a Christmas episode and the way the family interacts is not entirely like my family, but there was a lot of rhyming. It rhymed so much and was so intense that my headspace was entirely in Houston in the old family home and it felt surreal to be "suddenly" walking in Shinbashi station to make my transfer.

      Like the algorithm knew I needed to decompress a bit when I arrived at the office,ย  it offered up this Deep Relaxing Brunch Terrace DJ Set where they're DJing on a sunny terrace and making cinnamon rolls. It worked.
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  • Jul 23, 2024
    by James
    5am run club
    Day star out doing its thing. One of my โ€œaccepts touch paymentsโ€ vending machines wasnโ€™t having any of it, no matter the flavor. Up the tally for Crowdstrike?

    4.3km

    30.4min

    25m climbed

    151.8avg bpm

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  • Jul 21, 2024
    by James
    Morning ~Run~ Swim
    Stay safe out there ๐Ÿฅต

    5.0km

    34.7min

    19.2m climbed

    152.5avg bpm

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  • Jul 18, 2024
    by James
    Morning Run
    Did I ever mention how much I love clouds? So good they are.

    4.3km

    30.6min

    22.2m climbed

    158.5avg bpm

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