A bit slower, but still made it out.

• I shipped a small project I was working on for a friend to automate some data collection from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's website. The work itself wasn't too much different than Airbot but instead of being a full-blown django app requiring a server, it's a lambda function that runs for a few minutes each day.


• I rode the train for the first time since February-ish. This kind of blows my mind as one of the things I love about Japan is the abundance of mass transit. But I also haven't been going too far out of a 5km radius from my house on a regular basis either, so it makes sense.


• I did some exploring of the neighborhood behind ours on a long walk with Sophie over the weekend. It feels oddly American, but not. The streets are wide, there's sidewalks on both sides, every house is offset from the curb with a small garden, it's quite nice. But it's also not nearly as American Sanda, Hyogo


• I saw this great ad for the Harris County Public Library. I hope that ads like these help encourage people to use the library.


• I ran my fastest 5.09km to date at 32 minutes 30 seconds. Edging closer to the elusive 5km in 30 minutes.

In Shonandai there's a great restaurant about a minute from the station called New Orleans. With a name like New Orleans, you'd think they specialize in gumbo, or other creole specialties, but you'd be wrong. They specialize in pasta. Tomato sauces, cream sauces, and, my favorite, Japanese-style soy-sauce flavored pasta. The entire street smells like garlic everyday, it's great.

When I go during summer their ice coffee is a particular joy because they serve it in frozen copper cups. Perfect for the heat of Japanese summers.

Today I went with a friend and fellow Kanagawa-ian who I hadn't seen since the beginning of the year, Sam. It don't think I've seen Sam since early February, when covid was mostly contained on the cruise ship in Yokohama. It was great to catch up with same, talk about exploring Kanagawa, blogging, and the indie web. I don't think I've spoken that much English...since the last the I saw Sam, now that I think of it.

New Orleans' chicken and burdock root pasta is my favorite and I look forward to going again.

Only slightly cooler than running on the sun. At 5am. 🌞🏃