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    Evening Run
    Thankfully still cooling down in the evening.

    4.6km

    30.0min

    17.8m climbed

    avg bpm

  • The Week #308

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    • 🩺 We went to a local university festival and it was a lot of fun. It's not a regular festival (though there is yakisoba!) as there are a lot of educational / experience opportunities and the money you do pay (when required) acts as a donation. The first big standout thing we did this year at the Yokohama medical association where Leo and I got to wear the white doctor's coat, then practice our electrocautery skills on an eggplant.
    • 🫨 The second standout thing was this big earthquake simulator truck. Inside the truck they had a table and 4 chairs setup, then they play the earthquake alert noise and it starts shaking like a shindo-7 quake. Because it's a simulator it's not scary at all, but if one that big came out of nowhere it would be quite frightening.
    • 🤖 I decided it's time I start really using the family computer for programming and such and installed OpenCode + local models to learn, but also start getting things done on Tanzawa again. It's an older model so it's not quite as useful as the new ones, but it is fun to look at activity monitor, see the ram completely filled, and hear the fan turn on on the otherwise silent iMac.
    • ☕️ It's getting quite hot lately and the AC unit at the jikka is old and undersized – a winning combination for keeping cool. I went with my FIL to Fujisawa to check out some new ones. Good news is we decided and it's done. Bad news is it won't get installed until July. Hopefully the current one doesn't break before then... Afterwards we got a coffee and had a chat – I always enjoy these catchups and learning what it was like growing up in post-war Japan with enough siblings to field a baseball team.

  • Checkin to Saza Coffee (サザコーヒー)

    Waiting for the trains to clear.

  • The Week #307

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    • ☀️ It's the middle of May and it's already 30 degrees out. The few short weeks of spring are never long enough. At least it's still cool in the mornings and at night.
    • 🏨 One of my credit card rewards is a free night stay at a hotel. That free night was about to expire, so rather than let it expire I booked a guy's night at a hotel in downtown Yokohama for me and Leo. The overall day was a huge success but....
    • 🏊 The hotel's website says they have a fitness center and a pool. Naturally, I assume this means we can use the pool, there's no restrictions or anything written on their website – not even on the pool detail page. I tell Leo there's a pool and we bring our stuff. We arrive and... no kids are allowed in the pool. I know it's a losing battle, but I had to express my deep disappointment (politely) because we literally stayed at the hotel because they had a pool. Their logic was that because the rules are written for the fitness center, and you have to enter the fitness center to get to the pool, the rules apply to the pool and it should be obvious.  I get why they would want to limit it to older kids and agree it's probably the right call given the setup, just make it explicitly clear on your website or include a map so you can maybe deduce that it might be an issue. It felt like a very Japan-logic and the entire experience has me considering dropping Marriot for IHG.
    • 🎡 Not to let no pool get in our way, Leo and I went off to Minatomirai to have fun at Cosmo World. And as soon as we arrive I look at some of the rides – they aren't moving... and is that plastic covering the seats?!. And there's a construction crew?! After no pool, I can't do Cosmo World being closed for renovations.
    • 🎢 But it turned out only half of the park was closed and not the area where we wanted to go. 😮‍💨 Leo worked up the courage and we rode the long ride together 🙌🏻 I wish they sold photos of of the drop like most places do as I would have bought one – feels like they're leaving money on the table.
    • 🎤 We saw some 2-seater karaoke booths. Literally like a  large phone booth with a Karaoke machine shoved in it. Even better it's pay as you go, ¥100 per song. After dinner we dropped by and Leo sang We Gotta Power, the 2nd theme song for Dragon Ball Z and he smashed it. All in all, a successful guy's night and I look forward to doing it again.
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    Evening Run
    Burning a bit of lunch off. Started off with some hills, think I’ll do that some more.

    5.0km

    31.4min

    36.8m climbed

    avg bpm

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