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The Week #298
by James- β° In almost 300 weeks, it's the first week I've been in Japan where I haven't posted on a Tuesday. Turns out it's harder to blog in the morning when little one is glued to you and you commute in to the office.
- πΆ Sophie turned 14 years old. Hard to believe she's already this advanced in age. In some respects, she still behaves like a puppy. In other respects she is really showing her age. She's started getting boney and walking slower.
- π We went to the aquarium in Enoshima. While I've been to enoshima in the past few weeks, I hadn't been to the aquarium in at least a year. They had a tomogachi collaboration going on, which seem to be all the rage these days.
We got an annual pass as we will definitely go a second time or third time in the next 365 days. Leo wanted to take photos while we were there and thankfully and I happened to have my camera with me for him to use. I feel like that he had the camera and that it explicitly wasn't a distraction rectangle helped him keep engaged.
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Checkin to KUA`AINA
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Checkin to Starbucks
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Checkin to Saza Coffee (γ΅γΆγ³γΌγγΌ)
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The Week #297
by James- π I got my car back from the shop and not a day too soon. It's nice to be back in my EV with my one-pedal driving (automatically slows down / charges the battery when I lift the accelerometer), instant torque, and not adding to local/global air pollutants. I had to fill it loaner car up with gas before returning it and it's such a faff, so much easier to just plugin at home.
- π΄ I almost finished my taxes. Almost instead of finished because I need to double check them β I've never gotten a refund, so surely I must have flubbed something somewhere. And if they are correct and I did not flub them, I'll try not to spend the Β₯500 all in one place.
- π The energy market is getting interesting, but not in the "woo" way, more in "may you live in interesting times" kind of "interesting". Renewables and battery storage are the only sane path forward. Not only are they better for the climate, they're also better for geopolitical stability and sovereignty. Maybe this spike in the cost dino juice will further accelerate the adoption of solar and wind. One can hope.
- β Fuck war.
