Introducing the boy to the Smashing Pumpkins and Crash Test Dummies. The 90's are alive and well.

Two things I’d like to make in Tanzawa:

First chance to use my UV umbrella — amazing. So much cooler under it. Definitely recommend. Still feel like a bit of a tool using it, but the sun is gender-blind, it tries to kill us all equally.

I've made a few more tweaks and deployed my Strava run details to my site. Still a couple things remaining before I merge it into Tanzawa...but good enough for me to test it in prod. See my Sherlock homes run.

There used to be this service in Japan called something like 6am. I don't remember all the details, but I remember it was made by a foreigner who also had made a photoblogging site...

Either way, the concept was a daily email at 6am JST with things like the weather, latest 3 items from the news, and a few other things...I think I kinda wanna build something like that...

☀️HOT outside today. 11 am and over 30C . Battery’s full and I can turn on the AC worry free. Still exporting some green electrons to the grid, too.

🌧️ It's a rainy day in Yokohama. I've got jazz streaming to the Apple TV and Lego Mario-ing with Leo. Maybe we'll brave the rain and grab a burger later. Happy days.

Got a couple more quotes for selling my Honda Freed:

140 from Nissan 👎 (dealer)
130 - 150 from Autobacs 👎
180 from Big Motor 👍

10 less than what he said as a potential last week, but we’ll have it through the month. And 2 months sans car.

Exciting times in the Van Dyne household!

Man the Sakura is a lot of fun to drive. Almost like a Go-Kart. Going up hills a breeze. Automatic parking is cool, too Perfect city car. I'm sold. Now to figure out how long we can live without our car.