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    2:00 am and I’m wide awake πŸ‘€.Β 

  • Checkin to Taco Cabana

    First things first. Mexican food.

  • Checkin to Observation Deck - Terminal 1 (第1γ‚ΏγƒΌγƒŸγƒŠγƒ« ε±•ζœ›γƒ‡γƒƒγ‚­)

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    in Narita, Chiba, Japan
    Watching the airplanes come and go.
    FedEx now arriving
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    in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
    That important bag that we put into my checkin luggage β€œuntil we get to the airport”…it’s under the plane now. Oops. Hopefully there’s no potty problems on the flight 😬
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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
    Enjoying some Chinese bento on the Narita Express. βœˆοΈπŸ›«
    Yokohama Fried Rice Bento
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    Starting our trip to Houston today. You can follow along on my Houston trip page.
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    We finished reading The BFG last night. Such a good book. Unrelated, I also now call flatulence whizzpopping.

  • The Week #135

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    • Leo had a badge test at swimming. Last time he had a test, we missed half of the lessons for various reasons and he failed. He's been trying really hard since then. During practice directly before the test Eno-chan, the teacher, was praising him...and he passed! He's now an official owner of a a Jellyfish badge πŸŽ‰. With this we could move him from the weekend class to weekdays class, so we'll now have 1 weekend day free, again.
    • I had my first "viral toot" on Mastodon. It was about Ivory, the mastodon client from Tapbots, and also how I like how on this version of social media, we give cash to the people hosting and making the tools instead of data-mining privacy-invading advertising driven platforms.
    • I put de-Turboing (and HTMXifing) the admin of Tanzawa on hold for a while. It's turning out to be a bigger chunk of work that doesn't lend itself to my usual 30 minutes -> hour in the mornings here and there development style. I also wanted to build make other tweaks to my blog that feel more important (recent photos on the homepage (βœ…), plugins need some re-working in a fly.io world, generating blogs from runs, better indieweb (or activity pub?) support, etc...).
    • I generated my first cumulative megawatt hour (1,000 kWh) with my solar panels. I'm really looking forward to spring and summer when I can generate them at a much quicker rate.
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    Since releasing the new top page on my site, I didn't like how my photos, which mostly come from me checking in somewhere, were hidden unless you were subscribed to my blog.

    To fix this, I added a small image gallery like I used to have on my old blog years ago in college. It just shows the last 10 photos on my site. Might be fun to have a "randomize" button you could click to view more / different photos...

    A small gallery of my most recent photos

  • πŸ”— The Electric Shuffle

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    I can make some of my own electricity at home, but I can’t make my own gas. My point here is there are ways ordinary people can switch to healthier non gas cooking at a reasonable price point without engaging in institutional drama or politics.
    As much as I hate my gas-stove for all of the reasons listed in the article and want to replace it – $3,000 or so (including upgrading electric in the kitchen) is a bit much right now. However, they make a good point about using smaller appliances to fill the gap. One could even use portal batteries / solar arrays to charge and cook off of them entirely off grid. Clever.

    I reckon I could replace the majority of my gas range usage with a little portable 1 or 2 burner IH cooktop. When combined with my slow-cooker I bet we wouldn't even need to use the gas range at all...a $75 - $150 fix instead of a $3,000 fix to reduce carbon emissions and improve indoor air quality. Seems reasonable to me. They even make some with legs so they could fit in place of / over your gas range.
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    3. induction
    4. cooking
    5. electrification
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