Day 84 : The Longest Journey

Today is the last day of 2007, and we set for my home town, Shizuoka to spend the winter vacation and see my daughter's gramma and an uncle. (And of course, great gramma and other relatives :)



Usually, it takes 4 hours by car if we don't have any traffic jam from Tokyo to Shizuoka.
But, today it was a 5.5 hours journey. :(
This would be the longest journey for my daughter (at this moment).
Anyway, she was almost asleep during the journey. :o

Tha Last Ramen 2007

This is the last ramen of 2007. :o
The same choice with Oct. 14, I really like the special white pork ramen of Jinanbo. :)

COLD STONE CREAMERY

Today's teatime was at COLD STONE CREAMERY
in AEON MALL MusashiMurayama Mu. :)



I carelessly forgot to take a note of the name of above, but anyway
the strawberry and chocolate based ice cream is very good. :)

BTW, I didn't know that Diamond City sold stock to AEON MALL, and
now it's called AEON MALL MusashiMurayama Mu since last summer.

A Fire

Today is the last working day of 2008.



In this morning, I was surprised seeing a lot of firetrucks in front of JR Musashi-Koganei station.
There seemed to be a fire very close to the station, thus trains were stopped when I went there.
But the delay was not so bad, and I could get to my office about 10 minutes delay. :)

The Dignity of the Nation

The Dignity of the Nation (国家の品格)
Hiroshi Fujiwara
ISBN 978-4-10-610141-0

The book is one of the best selling books in Japan 2007.

Although the book contains several emotional keywords such as Bushido, the core message of the books is simple like the following:

"Logic is not almighty, what the most important is the sense of choosing principles."

A parallel translation in English and Japanese seems to be available.
I recommend that people interested in understanding Japanese people would read the book once.

Day 77 : Merry Christmas?

Today, we went to Aeon Akishima shopping center to buy new year gifts for my relatives.

Yes, it's Christmas Eve today. :)
I'm not sure why yet but anyway my daughter sleeps well when we go out, and
she was asleep when I and my wife had a very simple Christmas Eve party at StarBucks there.



BTW, I didn't know that there is a white Sachertorte. :o

Yona Yona Ale

I bought the beer in Karuizawa about 3 months(!) ago and finally enjoyed. :)

"Yona Yona" is a Japanese phrase which roughly means "every night."
Not too strong and has standard taste, so I think it's also a good choice for the beer for every night. (But, of course, for summer season.) :)

The Final Equipment Investment?

Today, I bought a 5 port GbE hub on my way back home in Akihabara.



Corega CG-SW05GTXB \6,180-

As I need to invest on my daughter from now, this would be the final equipment investment for the next two or three years. :o

BTW, some colleagues of mine asked me why there are needs of a GbE hub for home use.
Of course, I have several PCs at home and I often copy/move huge size files such as DVD ISO images. :)

A Stupid Perl Script

I wrote a stupid perl script (again?).

Here is an example terminal log and this explains everything.

| # xxxxx.pl 2007/12/11
| 0 Years and 64 Days (Day 64) since Xxxxx's birthday, 2007/10/9. :)

Of course, xxxxx is (masked) my daughter's name and helps me writing blog entries here very much. :)

Day 69 : Wakaba Keyaki Mall

Today, we went to Wakaba Keyaki Mall, a shopping center in Tokyo by car.
Yes, it's the first short trip of my daughter by car (using the brand new child seat.)

At first, I was worrying that she might not like the child seat, but it was needless fear. :)


The shopping mall is like the following.



It's not a big nor gorgeous shopping center, but it has good atmosphere and what more important for us is very close to our room, about 20 minutes drive. :)

The below is my teatime choice at Cocktail-Do Coffee. :)


BTW, my daughter kept sleeping during the trip. :o

New Daily Work

I got a new daily routine work from December 3.

The above picture describes that well. :)

Well, one more thing, give my daughter a bath.
That means I have to leave office around 18:30 everyday.
Of course, I'm doing the new task perfectly so far, and
colleagues of mine say, "You've really changed." :o

Guin Saga 118

Guin Saga 118
Conventicles In Crystalby
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN 978-4-15-030911-4

Pluto 5

Pluto, book 5
Naoki Urasawa
ISBN 978-4-09-181556-9

Urasawa is one of the most distinguished Japanese comic authors, I think.
Pluto is based on "The World's Strongest Robot" of Osamu Tezuka.
In a sense, Pluto is Urasawa's hommage to Tezuka, but it's not that simple.
Like other contemporary Japanese (difficult to understand) comic master pieces,
it's a very much thought-provoking story.
What is life?
What is justice?
Etc.
Anyway, I assure you that you can have interesting time with this comic.

Day 54 : Baby Buggy and Child Seat

Today, we went to Babiesrus at Fuchu and bought a baby buggy and a child seat.



Yes, Ready to go out. :)