• This is the last "The Week" of the year. I finished work for the year and won't start back until the end of the first week of January. I'm really happy with what we've been able to accomplish in the last 3 months at Octopus and am looking forward to 2022.
• I wrote another year in review ( Looking back on 2021 ) style post. It was nice to reflect at a different scale than my weekly posts and made me realize just how much I got done this year and how much life has changed.
• Christmas was this week. Leo is finally starting to understand the joys of Christmas as a kid.
  This year he woke up an hour earlier than usual with a big grin on his face to see if Santa had come. And sure enough, he visited our house too. Leo's been wanting a Dr. Yellow train and some new trains for a couple of months. 
  
  He was expecting Santa to bring him some kind of bullet train. But instead Santa brought him a freight train that other train he mentioned sometimes: a "Momotaro" freight train. We got him the his favorite, Dr. Yellow. 
  
  It was my first time experiencing, as a parent, a kid getting so hyped and excited about what could possibly be downstairs under the tree. And it's a lot of fun. Much more fun than getting any gift.
• After that we went to the grandparents to celebrate Yumi's birthday with some homemade lasagna, salad, roast chicken, and some cake. It was a lot of fun and a nice, slow Christmas.
• We watched Don't Look Up, the new film with Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change, but not about climate change per se. In the film they discover a planet destroyer comet heading directly for earth in 6 months and when they alert the government, the powers that be see it as a political opportunity.
  
  What hit the hardest was just how distracted, by choice, the general population is in the film. Consumed with social media and 24-hour news cycles. It hits too close to home and the parallels the "debate" we see in regards to climate change. But just "don't look up".
• A few members of family have been infected with this new variant of covid. Thankfully everyone appears to doing well so far as they were (all?) vaccinated. I feel like we're going to get a nice wave of infections here in the next couple of weeks as well. Hopefully it's as it is in seems to be in other counties: huge numbers but low/no hospitalization of the vaccinated.

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• We took a day off of work to attend a Christmas play that Leo's school was performing. It was held at the local civic center, so it was on a stage and everything. The play itself was about Jesus and Mary and all the traditional Western Christmas "reason for the season". The older kids had speaking roles and Leo's class played the sheep. He did good and didn't appear to get nervous or anything. I think he was mostly distracted by the choir club mom's singing behind them.
  
  After the play, the kids sang a Christmas medley and Santa came to visit. Each kid in Leo's grade got a book, and Santa brought some new mats for when they play inside for everyone. When Leo's name was called he ran/walked as fast as he could to meet him and get his book.
• When it was over we went out to Johnathan, an American style family restaurant as a treat. While driving there I thought how odd life is. It used to be me in the backseat, parents dressed up in the front, going to get lunch/dinner somewhere nice. But now it's my turn to be in the front. Getting old is weird like that, I suppose. Sidebar: their fried chicken sandwich and 'slaw was spot on. I could've been at a fried chicken joint in the US.
• I switched my electricity to Octopus Energy and am finally On Supply. Excited to dog food what we're building at work. Also there's 1万 ( $100) of credit if you sign up while we're in beta...so if you're in the Kanto area, you totally should.
• Leo wanted to ride the monorail with all 3 of us, so we went to Enoshima. We actually went to the island this time, instead of just the beach. I was impressed as Leo walked most of the way from the monorail station to the island itself.  It's about a kilometer and a half apart and Leo walked about a kilo. Most impressive was him asking to be held, not because of the people, but because he grew tired.
• Naturally we can't visit that area and not visit the Aquarium and see a dolphin show. Usually we're early and see the first show or so of the day. But this time we went in the afternoon. I wasn't expecting to see people dressed up in Dolphin suits out front protesting the show. I always felt bad watching the show, because I know their super intelligent and it doesn't seem like a fulfilling life experience. But at the same time, I wish my kid could be a kid and not have to hear about people killing dolphins as we go in and exit the place. Their go-pros recording their protest so you have look at them or look into their cameras to pass through was equally frustrating.
• Leo and I went out to do a little bit of Christmas shopping for Mom. I told him the idea was we were going to buy a present, but we have to keep it a secret from mom. It'll be like "Leo Santa". He seemed on board and understood the concept. He picked out a PuiPui book he wanted, because "Mom likes PuiPui", which is true, you can't not like Puipui.  All seemed well and then as soon as we saw mom he told her what we bought. Maybe next year 😆.

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