Conflict

I couldn't have updated this blog because there were a lot of things I wanted to do. What I want to do in my usual life are three. To write a blog in English, to write a blog in Jape, and to read books. All of them are very important to my life. Unfortunately, those things conflict with each other. When I write a blog in English, I have to give up writing it in Japanese and reading books. It's so frustrating!! I would like to do everything, but there is not enough time. This trend especially become apparent after I moved to Japan. When I lived in the US, I had quite enough time because I didn't have to spend much time to commute. It was just five minutes to the office. On the other hand, it takes more than one and a half hours to get to the office now. Considering the round trip, it takes more than three hours!! In addition, I have to work overtime here in Japan. Because of this, I have to spend more time to work. This is a seriously critical change between life in Japan and the US. Do I want to continue this life? No, I don’t want such a life. I need/want much time for myself. Time is the most important thing in my life. Time is life. If you have money, you can trade something. However, it is impossible to increase / trade your time. Time is available equally, but how you use the time depends on you. 
I don't want to keep the current life nor must not keep it. In order to improve my life, I have to give up the current job. There is no future if I continue the job. Hey, me! Do you want to live your life? Then, you shoul find another way. The way on which you keep walking right now is apparently wrong way. It will exhaust you, and you will be miserable. Hey, Kashiwa! Stand up right now! Create a bright future. It must be tough, and you may fail. It's okay. No problem. The worst life is just complaining about your life. Trying nothing is guilty. Even if your future is not bright, it doesn't matter if you try something.

July 14, 2022

Since I woke up late yesterday, I slept over this morning. Hearing my son saying something, I got up at 6:10 am. When I got up, I remember that I didn't take a shower last night. After taking a shower, I wiped off the shower room. This is a kind of my routine work. I want to/have to keep the room dry because it is very easy to get moldy. I don't know why, but my apartment is too humid. Therefore, I have to be careful of keeping dry. 
After taking shower, my wife and the baby came into the living room. The baby is so cute as always. 
I asked the older son what he would like to eat for breakfast. He answered he wanted to eat cereal. Unfortunately, there was any cereal there. I wonder why he always chooses what is in shortage right timing. Is this on purpose?
Instead of cereal, I prepared Furikake Gohan for him. 
When he is eating, I went out to take the garbage out. Today is the flammable garbage collection day.
At 8:05 am, all of us left home to hospital. On the way to the hospital, I dropped off the elder boy at daycare. There were one or two men at the eantrance, but others were women. 
The way to the hospital was a little narrow. As K-city is quite old city, the road standard is very old. I hope roads were much wider in this city. It always terrifies me.

At 8:50 am, we arrived at the hospital. I put the baby on the stoller, and we went into the hospital. Before going to the reception, you have to check your body temperatures. There was a cutting-edge thermometer. You can take your body temperature taking some distance. It is amazing. I wonder how it works.
Confirming we are at normal temperatures, we went to the internal department to submit tokens that prove we took a check-up the other day.
Submitting them, we took seats and waited to have our names called. The shape of the seat was a little unique. It is like a donut. There was a pillar, and some seats surrounded it. 
It took more than one hour until our names were called. Although we didn't see many people there, it took a long time. 
While we were waiting, I talked about a U-turn in my hometown. I'm going to get back to my hometown within two and a half years. Considering this,   the biggest issue is how to earn money. So, we discussed my career. It is not so easy to find a job in such countryside.
It was my turn first. The doctor's name was Kogure (or Kigure), which is a little unique. He looks like a good person, and his voice was kind. He looked around my check up results, and he said "There was no problem."

July 13, 2022

What is productive 

Getting off the train, it was raining a little hard today. I got wet when I reached the office. Fifteen minutes walk is enough to get wet. I hope the office were closer to the station.

Isa got a request from the boss. Our boss is on a business trip right now, but he seems more activated than usual. Isa has got many tasks from him. This means that I have to support his tasks. He began to make a supplementary materials with a serious face. He is too meticulous about everything. Too meticulous. I have never met such a meticulous person in my life. Our boss surely asked to make the material, but I guess he didn't want to such a precise data. He is on business trip right now, and he doesn't have enough time to consider it. In such condition, rough idea is pretty enough. 
 I really don't understand why Isa stick to accuracy. Is it the issue we have to focus on? I don't think so. There are many tasks we have to do. We mustn't allocate much time to the unnecessary task. The important thing is to recognize what is critical thing.

We took whole day to prepare the material. Is this productive ??

English Class

I will have a English pronounce class today. It's been several months since I took the class last time. Because of moving I was so busy for the months. In addition, I could find any slots that are suitable for both of us. I am available on weekends, but Julie is available on Monday in the morning. 

We talked in the email yesterday, and finally, we found a slot that is convenient for both of us. I booked a lesson at 8:40 pm. So I wanted to go out of the office asap. 

Only at times like this, I got many tasks to do today. I pushed myself to make it within the time, but it was difficult to do so. I had to work overtime for 50 minutes. 

After finishing my tasks, I hurried to the station. On the way to it, I came across Ansa, but there was enough time to chat with her. I talked to her two or three words and rushed to the station. 

Now I'm on the train writing this article.

Describe the morning

Today I got up at 5:00 am when the laundry just finished. I set the timer last night so that I can dry the clothes when I get up. Since it was raining outside in the morning, I tried to dry the clothes in the dryer. After starting the dryer, the temperature around it went up! 
Next, I went out to the garbage station to take the garbage bags out. There were four bags today because I organized the moving staff at the weekend. So I got a lot of garbage. When I came to the garage station, I found the collection box was unlocked. I locked the doors of the box so that other people can use it correctly. If I don't lock it, nobody doesn't that. I came to know that people in general are not neat. When I was taking out the garbage, it was raining hard.

Coming back home, I began to iron the shirts which I wanted to do that in the weekend. I wanted to / should iron, but I put it off because I'm a lazy guy. However, I did this morning! Because there were no neat shirts anymore. I learned an important thing from the event: people never do it automatically. The necessity drives people to do it. Ironing in this season is a little uncomfortable because I feel the heat. I don't need any heat source in such hot temperatures in summer. 

I browsed the Internet after ironing since I wanted to change the design of this blog. As I'm not familiar with such IT things, it is tough for me to search and understand the contents. I could change the heading design somehow. The action that requires was easy: copy the CSS and paste it. The work is simple but it is difficult for me to understand it. 

When I tried to change the CSS, I heard my baby crying for something. My wife said that he wanted breastfeeding. I'm sorry for him, but he is now trying to stop mother milk. Instead of milk, I prepared some water for him. Looking at the water bottle, he looked to want to say something: “Hey, Daddy! This is just water. This is not what I want!!"

Writing

To write is to think

Can you think something without writing? I cannot do that! If you can do that, I guess you are a genious. If you can do that, I guess you are a genius. When I think about something, I get a pen first and write and write something. If I don't write down anything, I cannot think efficiently. In that case, I'm thinking the same thing again and again. I cannot go forward nor make any progress without writing. I just write something without deep thought. This is very important. When you write, new ideas come up. Writing brings you somewhere you haven't seen before. 
In this blog, I just write as much as I can because my thought follows after I write something. Therefore, I don't care if the sentences are wrong grammatically or the structure is chaos. The most important thing is to write to think.
There's one more important thing. Writing can be a milestone. When you look back at what you write, you can check what you think. I think this is similar to "save point." If you write something, you can make save points of your thought. Having save points, you can restart your thought from there. If you don't have any save points, you have to start from the beginning again, and you never make any progress. In order to go forward, you better write something.

Test Heading

This is a test page. I wanted to change the CSS of the headings. I think the default design is a little too plain to find it is the heading.  I browse some websites to find a good design. It is very easy to adopt a new design because you just copy and paste it. That's it! Let's look at the new heading below:

Heading <h3>

Heading <h4>

Heading <h5>

Make some sentences

Let's make some sentences with some words which are in the flash cards. 
The first word is... "expire"! Okay, I am a little familiar with this word because there were several chances to see it. 
- Today I asked the supplier to provide the UN certificate, and he send me it. I found that the certificate woul expire in the end of July. So, I request him to extend the expiration date.

- I obtained a driver'slicense in NC, and it has already expired in March. The valid duration was the same as the VISA. 
when I got back to Japan, my driver's license had been expired for two years. Therefore, I had to renew it. Since my driver's license was gold grade, I thought I could get the same one. However, there was something wrong with my passport records, the authorities denied to give me the gold grade. In stead of gold, they gave me "blue grade" license which is the lowest. I was little shocked because it needs several years for me to go back to the previous grade. In addition, with the lowest grade, my car insurance fee will be more expensive. 

It's time to arrive at the station. I'll end this article.