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The Week #47
by James- In Covid-19 News this week, we're now consistently about 500k shots a day. Progress! And in even better news starting next month Covid-19 vaccines will be made available to all under 65 at the same time. I really, really hope this turns out to be true.
- I hit 30 checkins at parks with Swarm. Pre-dad me would have never imagined the local park would be such a fixture of everyday-life.
- I haven't worked much on Tanzawa this past week. I think it's from finishing two projects at work (one of which I can't wait to share later this month) and outside of work being busy with Leo from wake until I sleep. He's starting to wake up around 5:30-ish when the sun's fully up and I've been "sleeping in" from my usual 4:30 to 5:30. Then as soon as I finish work I'm either picking him up or he's ready to play or go to the park.
- Leo's stayed the night at grandma's house giving me my first "me time" since my couple hours riding to and from Enoshima a month ago. I spent it re-watching Long Way Up. What struck me re-watching it was how much I didn't remember from the early episodes and just how "vloggy" it is, in the best possible meaning. Are there any good travel blogs out there anymore? Either way, I'm sure they've mostly been on hold this past 18 months.
- Thinking about travel blogging reminded me how much I wanted to travel long-term when I was in college. Reading books like Vagabonding, watching documentaries like A Map For Saturday and Walking the Camino, dreaming of being out in the world. In a sense I did when studied abroad for a year Japan in college. But now that I live here and fluent, it's just life, isn't it?
- Speaking of life, we had a bit of a scare on the train. Recently Leo's wants to hold the overhead handles when we ride the trains. If there's not a seat, I let him as we can sanitize his hands when we get off the train. Today we were standing next to the door and so focused on him not holding the handles, I didn't realize his hands were on the door. When the doors opened his fingers slid into jam(!). Thankfully it only took a light tug to free them and he wasn't hurt. A good lesson for us both.
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Checkin to KUA`AINA
Forgot to take a photo of my delicious burger. :doh: -
Checkin to Katase Higashihama Beach (片瀬東浜海水浴場)
Needed to see the ocean. 🌊East Beach -
by JamesRewatching Long Way Up since we can’t travel. Making me think about my long planned “Trips” feature in Tanzawa. 😜
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Checkin to 二俣川二丁目公園
Watching the bullet trains go by. So fast.The tail end of the Shinkansen. Barely got it. -
Checkin to Starbucks
Post kindergarten activity lunch. -
by JamesHackers move poster came. Turns out movie poster sizes are non-standard and you can't easily buy American movie poster sizes in Japan. Luckily I found a shop that specializes in movie posters in Osaka that a) knew the problem and b) has frames fit for the various sizes.
Framed and ready to hang. Woo!Hackers: Their Crime is Curiosity -
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Checkin to Starbucks
Enjoying the new issue of @OffscreenMag with a small coffee as a reward for sending in my taxes.Offscreen #24. The gradient cover is fantastic. -
The Week #46
by James- I've started using Gluon when using Micro.blog. The client is so fluid and smooth. I also really like that it displays my figure tags inline properly.
- Speaking of doing things properly, as a I ramp up for releasing a developer release of Tanzawa, I finally integrated a CI process into the repository. I also took the opportunity to fix the lint/typecheck errors that I'd let slide because I wasn’t running the suite manually.
- Leo's been trying really hard for the past couple of weeks, but he's transitioned to being in undies full-time! Since he's been wanting to get the Ikea t-rex and complete the collection, to celebrate we took him to Ikea to find t-rex. When we were walking around the store he kept calling "t-reeeeeeeeex" looking for him.
- In Japan Covid news this week they’ve finally approved Moderna and Az vaccines. Moderna is being used at the new Self Defense Force run mass inoculation sites in Tokyo, Osaka and other places as they ramp up. It has me feeling slightly positive that I may be able to get the vaccine this year.
- The government has set a goal of having the elderly finished inoculation by the end of July. I don’t think they’re gonna make it because at least in Fujisawa, my father in law couldn’t get an appointment until August and my mother in law is still awaiting her voucher. Maybe this will change once more mass vaccination sites get running.
