Very productive weekend. Half day of work on Saturday, then a nice summer festival with my wife and son at a local park. On Sunday we all went to a bookstore to pick out some books for my son to read at his summer program, went to Tully’s for lunch, then went back home. After a bit of rest, I took my son to the park. While he was catching cicadas, I was priming a bunch of miniature figures for my HeroQuest game. Went back home and started painting them up, then had a nice session at the gym to finish off the weekend.
I taught a guy how to light matches and I finally got to eat my nearly blue steak
Had sudachi gyuuniku soba in Kyoto which was not bad just not worth the 1700 yen pricetag.
Wanted to visit more places but it was entirely too hot to walk around. People who were waiting in the hot sun for the Gion matsuri, no idea how they hold out in this heat.
I went to the beach with some new friends, and it was my first time going somewhere with people I’ve met on my own here and not just tagging along with friends I’ve known for years. I was very excited about that. One of them posted a picture of the two of us on her Instagram, so I had to make mine private for the time being because some people did not like that at all. It was like an 8/10 weekend.
Ate some beautiful crab at home thanks to Furosatonoze. If you’ve never taken advantage of it you should. It has become much much easier than when it first started.
You are going to pay the city tax anyway, why not get some gifts for it as well.
Chill weekend watching movies and TV shows. Caught up with Extraordinary Attorney Woo and it made me cry more than I care to admit.
Edit: Got myself the Dyson hair dryer and itms a dream! My mother wanted to try it too for the longest time (a professional hair stylist) so I think I have stumbled upon the easiest Christmas present this year
16th week check, and baby showed us the goods! Knowing makes it feel more real and exciting!
The curtain rod in my bedroom, which the wife likes to yank on to get through to the balcony since you know opening the curtains first to go in/out to hang cloths is to much work, unsurprisingly pulled out even with the heavy duty drywall anchors.
Went to the hardware store to buy replacement anchors (there wasn’t enough drywall so I had to move the hangers down a couple of cm) I decided to buy the stuff for the power washer we bought at Costco a few weeks ago.
Got so sweaty after the hanging of the curtains (because I had the glass door open and I couldn’t find my power tools so was cranking on everything overhead with a screwdriver) I had to take a 2nd shower.
Then went outside and spent a couple of hours playing with the pressure washer, I did 1/2 the driveway and like the front corner of the house. Holy crap is the difference obvious in the daylight after it dried. So tonight I’ll do the 2nd half of the driveway and the rest of the front of the house although honestly I need a ladder to get up to the 2nd floor… It just looks weird with only the lower part washed and the upper part a dingy dirty color…
The foamer I got to wash cars with works great too – although it uses way to much concentrate way to fast… Need to get rid of the streaks on the wife’s car, they’re way more obvious now that the outside is clean (well, except for the streaks, anyone who lives in Tokyo knows the ones I’m talking about).
And to clean off the overspray/mud that got kicked up onto me I got, you guessed it, a 3rd shower of the day…
The hot weather is great on the weekend when I go to the beach and do summer activities. Had a nice weekend in the sun. Not so nice when you have to wear a suit to work.
The wife and I went to TeamLab Boarderless before it shuts down next month. We met her work colleague there who was just lovely!
The place was actually really good, usually those sort of places are a bit meh but I really enjoyed it. Felt like a kid at an amusement park which is not something I expected to feel again 😅
We went to see some fireworks!! I’d been waiting 2 years to go to a hanabi festival so I was over the moon hehe
Unfortunately some dudes who sat next to us started smoking though. We moved further down to get away from them, and they must’ve thought we moved to get a better view so they moved closer again LOL. Annoying. Self-awareness on zero
Anyway we moved to a totally different spot which turned out to be great. It was an awesome event!!! 🙂
I went to Kokura. To the other lovely foreigners that smiled and asked me “what have you been up to”. I’m sure you mistook me for someone else 😆 cheers though if you see this
Finished a 1k word essay on Marx, end term report. 7 or 8 more to go, all due this or next week….
Biology 1 exams finally over. I think I did okay ish.
Took the plunge and brought a second hand electric guitar and amp off Mercari. I don’t know anything about guitars yet but I really want to learn.
Went to the Soma Nomaoi Festival. It was amazing and the food was good but the heat almost made me pass out.
Spent several hours trying to get tickets for F1 Suzuka grand prix. Fortunately, I managed to get a good seat, not my top pick but at least. Stupid me however also bought a GP tickets and now I have two exras.
Does anyone know what would be a good way to sell them off? In mercari?
I attended a badminton meetup event on Sunday. It was pretty good, I got to exercise and take a break from the stresses of life.
Went to ConanLand and Meet the Onepiece event at Shibuya. There were less people than I’ve imagined
went to visit a showroom to enquire about purchasing property here.
Learnt a lot, and got a free ￥1,000 amazon gift card for going. Heh.
With the summer weather I ended up with too many over ripe bananas before they could all get eaten.
[Banana Muffins](https://i.imgur.com/WvyOa91.jpg) from my Grandmother’s recipe to the rescue! Total calorie bombs, but oh so delicious. Though I might be biased with the hit of nostalgia and memories that accompany them.
Recipe if anyone is looking for something to bake.
– 400g ripe bananas – 100g white sugar
– 185g all-purpose flour – 中力粉 or as a substitute 50/50 mix of bread (強力粉) and cake (薄力粉) flours – 1.25ml table salt – 2.5ml nutmeg – 5ml baking soda (*not baking powder)
Mash bananas with sugar till dissolved. Mix in wet ingredients (oil, egg, and vanilla).
Sift or whisk together dry ingredients (flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda).
Slowly add the flour into the wet mixture to avoid clumping.
Cook at 200C for ~17 minutes or till deep golden color. The baking soda increases browning so aim on the darker side.
Makes a dozen muffins with #8 sized baking cups.
I spent the whole weekend cleaning my apartment and sipping margaritas to vocal synth/vaporwave and pretending it was the 80’s. 😬
I climbed Fuji-san! But it was on Thursday/friday then slow weekend baking !
Wandered around Akihabara for the first time in a while, surprised it wasn’t more crowded. Now today I’m all sorts of fucked up with random, insane dizziness that only comes about if I tilt my head certain directions…no idea where it’s coming from but it has totally ruined everything I wanted to do with my day off.
Is internship counted as part time job??? Im supposed to have an internship and part time job for summer break and it may go over the 8hrs/day limit :/ it’s def still going to be under 40hrs a week
Went to do my electrician licence test, got an easy question, fucked it up because of bad time management…
Was happy when I saw the plans, because I knew it was an easy one, plugged a cable wrong, decided to come back at it at the end, did not have a clock and since they only advertise “time’s up it’s over” and not even a “5min remaining” I did not go back to fix it on time, AND it’s an eliminatory mistake…
Guess I’ll spend Xmas eve doing it again (next time is on 12/24), at least I don’t have to wait for the results
I found dried lavender that can be used to make syrup (no pesticides, etc) and a vendor that sells all kinds of fresh (and dried/smoked) hot peppers and tomatillos at a farmers market in Aoyama. I made tacos last night and am making lavender syrup right now.
Anyone have any good sites for cheap second hand refrigerator and washer?
Ate pizza.
I attended the recruting meeting in my office.
My birthday was Saturday and got to spend time with mom on day of, and a friend on Sunday 🙂
A little bummed that my parents, that friend, and 1 follower on twitter wished me happy birthday, and two other people did after a sorta subtle reminder (like a “I got my nails done for my bday!” type of subtle). I guess this is part of getting older? Just feel sad since it feels like my friends back in the states are slowly forgetting about me, despite being in contact regularly.
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Very productive weekend. Half day of work on Saturday, then a nice summer festival with my wife and son at a local park. On Sunday we all went to a bookstore to pick out some books for my son to read at his summer program, went to Tully’s for lunch, then went back home. After a bit of rest, I took my son to the park. While he was catching cicadas, I was priming a bunch of miniature figures for my HeroQuest game. Went back home and started painting them up, then had a nice session at the gym to finish off the weekend.
I taught a guy how to light matches and I finally got to eat my nearly blue steak
Had sudachi gyuuniku soba in Kyoto which was not bad just not worth the 1700 yen pricetag.
Wanted to visit more places but it was entirely too hot to walk around. People who were waiting in the hot sun for the Gion matsuri, no idea how they hold out in this heat.
I went to the beach with some new friends, and it was my first time going somewhere with people I’ve met on my own here and not just tagging along with friends I’ve known for years. I was very excited about that. One of them posted a picture of the two of us on her Instagram, so I had to make mine private for the time being because some people did not like that at all. It was like an 8/10 weekend.
Ate some beautiful crab at home thanks to Furosatonoze. If you’ve never taken advantage of it you should. It has become much much easier than when it first started.
You are going to pay the city tax anyway, why not get some gifts for it as well.
Chill weekend watching movies and TV shows. Caught up with Extraordinary Attorney Woo and it made me cry more than I care to admit.
Edit: Got myself the Dyson hair dryer and itms a dream! My mother wanted to try it too for the longest time (a professional hair stylist) so I think I have stumbled upon the easiest Christmas present this year
16th week check, and baby showed us the goods! Knowing makes it feel more real and exciting!
The curtain rod in my bedroom, which the wife likes to yank on to get through to the balcony since you know opening the curtains first to go in/out to hang cloths is to much work, unsurprisingly pulled out even with the heavy duty drywall anchors.
Went to the hardware store to buy replacement anchors (there wasn’t enough drywall so I had to move the hangers down a couple of cm) I decided to buy the stuff for the power washer we bought at Costco a few weeks ago.
Got so sweaty after the hanging of the curtains (because I had the glass door open and I couldn’t find my power tools so was cranking on everything overhead with a screwdriver) I had to take a 2nd shower.
Then went outside and spent a couple of hours playing with the pressure washer, I did 1/2 the driveway and like the front corner of the house. Holy crap is the difference obvious in the daylight after it dried. So tonight I’ll do the 2nd half of the driveway and the rest of the front of the house although honestly I need a ladder to get up to the 2nd floor… It just looks weird with only the lower part washed and the upper part a dingy dirty color…
The foamer I got to wash cars with works great too – although it uses way to much concentrate way to fast… Need to get rid of the streaks on the wife’s car, they’re way more obvious now that the outside is clean (well, except for the streaks, anyone who lives in Tokyo knows the ones I’m talking about).
And to clean off the overspray/mud that got kicked up onto me I got, you guessed it, a 3rd shower of the day…
The hot weather is great on the weekend when I go to the beach and do summer activities. Had a nice weekend in the sun. Not so nice when you have to wear a suit to work.
The wife and I went to TeamLab Boarderless before it shuts down next month. We met her work colleague there who was just lovely!
The place was actually really good, usually those sort of places are a bit meh but I really enjoyed it. Felt like a kid at an amusement park which is not something I expected to feel again 😅
We went to see some fireworks!! I’d been waiting 2 years to go to a hanabi festival so I was over the moon hehe
Unfortunately some dudes who sat next to us started smoking though. We moved further down to get away from them, and they must’ve thought we moved to get a better view so they moved closer again LOL. Annoying. Self-awareness on zero
Anyway we moved to a totally different spot which turned out to be great. It was an awesome event!!! 🙂
I went to Kokura. To the other lovely foreigners that smiled and asked me “what have you been up to”. I’m sure you mistook me for someone else 😆 cheers though if you see this
Finished a 1k word essay on Marx, end term report. 7 or 8 more to go, all due this or next week….
Biology 1 exams finally over. I think I did okay ish.
Took the plunge and brought a second hand electric guitar and amp off Mercari. I don’t know anything about guitars yet but I really want to learn.
Went to the Soma Nomaoi Festival. It was amazing and the food was good but the heat almost made me pass out.
Spent several hours trying to get tickets for F1 Suzuka grand prix.
Fortunately, I managed to get a good seat, not my top pick but at least.
Stupid me however also bought a GP tickets and now I have two exras.
Does anyone know what would be a good way to sell them off? In mercari?
I attended a badminton meetup event on Sunday. It was pretty good, I got to exercise and take a break from the stresses of life.
Went to ConanLand and Meet the Onepiece event at Shibuya. There were less people than I’ve imagined
went to visit a showroom to enquire about purchasing property here.
Learnt a lot, and got a free ￥1,000 amazon gift card for going. Heh.
With the summer weather I ended up with too many over ripe bananas before they could all get eaten.
[Banana Muffins](https://i.imgur.com/WvyOa91.jpg) from my Grandmother’s recipe to the rescue! Total calorie bombs, but oh so delicious. Though I might be biased with the hit of nostalgia and memories that accompany them.
Recipe if anyone is looking for something to bake.
– 400g ripe bananas
– 100g white sugar
– 185g all-purpose flour – 中力粉 or as a substitute 50/50 mix of bread (強力粉) and cake (薄力粉) flours
– 1.25ml table salt
– 2.5ml nutmeg
– 5ml baking soda (*not baking powder)
– 100ml vegetable oil
– 1 egg
– 5ml vanilla extract
Mash bananas with sugar till dissolved. Mix in wet ingredients (oil, egg, and vanilla).
Sift or whisk together dry ingredients (flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda).
Slowly add the flour into the wet mixture to avoid clumping.
Cook at 200C for ~17 minutes or till deep golden color. The baking soda increases browning so aim on the darker side.
Makes a dozen muffins with #8 sized baking cups.
I spent the whole weekend cleaning my apartment and sipping margaritas to vocal synth/vaporwave and pretending it was the 80’s. 😬
I climbed Fuji-san! But it was on Thursday/friday then slow weekend baking !
Wandered around Akihabara for the first time in a while, surprised it wasn’t more crowded. Now today I’m all sorts of fucked up with random, insane dizziness that only comes about if I tilt my head certain directions…no idea where it’s coming from but it has totally ruined everything I wanted to do with my day off.
Is internship counted as part time job??? Im supposed to have an internship and part time job for summer break and it may go over the 8hrs/day limit :/ it’s def still going to be under 40hrs a week
Went to do my electrician licence test, got an easy question, fucked it up because of bad time management…
Was happy when I saw the plans, because I knew it was an easy one, plugged a cable wrong, decided to come back at it at the end, did not have a clock and since they only advertise “time’s up it’s over” and not even a “5min remaining” I did not go back to fix it on time, AND it’s an eliminatory mistake…
Guess I’ll spend Xmas eve doing it again (next time is on 12/24), at least I don’t have to wait for the results
I found dried lavender that can be used to make syrup (no pesticides, etc) and a vendor that sells all kinds of fresh (and dried/smoked) hot peppers and tomatillos at a farmers market in Aoyama. I made tacos last night and am making lavender syrup right now.
Anyone have any good sites for cheap second hand refrigerator and washer?
Ate pizza.
I attended the recruting meeting in my office.
My birthday was Saturday and got to spend time with mom on day of, and a friend on Sunday 🙂
A little bummed that my parents, that friend, and 1 follower on twitter wished me happy birthday, and two other people did after a sorta subtle reminder (like a “I got my nails done for my bday!” type of subtle). I guess this is part of getting older? Just feel sad since it feels like my friends back in the states are slowly forgetting about me, despite being in contact regularly.