The Week #292

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  • 🚗 I got the estimate for the repair and it's about 300,000 yen ($2,000) and it will take about 3 weeks(!) to fix once I put it in the shop. I've requested they get a EV prepped for as a loaner, but we'll see – it might be a gasoline kei (in which case it will probably sit in my driveway unused).
  • 📚 Somehow this failed to make it into The Week a couple weeks back. Netflix has been in Japanese for a while with Leo and getting back into English was always met with resistance. Then Leo started asking for his Switch in Japanese. I thought with how reading homework is a battle everyday, maybe he does need read Japanese in a context that he enjoys and that'll level-up his reading abilities, which in turn will open the gates for reading actual books.

    So we made a deal – the switch can go in Japanese if Netflix stays in English and he agreed.  He's kept his end of the bargain and my theory seems to be correct. He's started reading his Dragon Ball manga of his own volition and not saying "I'm tired" every other frame. 

    To encourage this we made another deal – when he finishes reading a manga, I'll buy the next one in the series. He finished reading volume 1 of Dragon Ball Super and read for 10 minutes in bed of volume 2.
  • 📹 You are being mislead about renewable energy is a long and excellent look at renewables. His framing about gasoline being something you pay for once then it's gone forever vs paying for durable goods (panels/batteries) is something I knew intuitively but couldn't quite articulate. And the bit about putting solar panels in place of corn used for ethanol which compares the miles we can drive on the same energy is an eye opener. Renewables are the frugal energy choice these days. Please watch.
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