Golden Week 2024 was over.
Summer vacation and year-end shutdown will also end soon.

Resumed Twitter to try to use the SNS, but can’t spend much time so far.

Planning to buy a new car, but it’s expensive even though the target car is not a luxury one.
I can’t buy a car freely even with my current salary.
Being rich is super difficult and only allowed for small amount of people.

Having relatively high amount of US dollars.
Hope to get the situation where yen get weaker and weaker for temporary time.

I’m becoming insensitive and dull to everything, and generally goodbyes are also no exception as I get older.
But still every farewell can be different and can be special to me. If that specific farewell is special, it can be impactful on me.
I was forced to acknowledge it this month.

Life goes on and on until I die, along with any super impactful events or experience.
Anyway, my life is not so peculiar, there’s no drastic experience like war (so far), and no killing each other.

If I compare each period/stage of my life, I believe now is the happiest one.
I have most of the things I need and definitely I’m privileged from all aspects.

But still I don’t have one thing.

Drama series of Fallout was released on Prime Video.
I’m a big fun of fallout series, so finished watching 8 episode within this week.

When I recall, fallout4 was most exciting open world game for me.

I could boot up the fallout4 again, but some of the MOD is outdated.
So I deleted all the save data and MODs.

It might take some time to install set of MODs, and I’m not sure I can take time.
But playing falllout4 again is one of the item in my TODO list.

Bought open type & wired headphone of Audio Technica.
Quite comfortable even keep wearing, and good sound comparing with wireless devices.

I also bought USB DAC last month and the sound quality is good, though I don’t have much experience and capability to distinguish good and bad quality.
But anyway I can enjoy the experience.

Plan to buy USB DAC which can be used for PC speaker as well.

When I drink too much beer or other alcoholic beverages, I can easily get sleepy.
This might be due to the aging.
I could have 10+ hours sleep on this Saturday and Sunday.
But it’s a regrettable not to use time for personal activities.

Winter is ending and Spring is beginning.
We went to Izu and Nagano as 2-day family trip in 2 consecutive weeks.

Originally we visited Izu, then it was fortunate for us to find out the blank room in recreation facility of Kanto IT Kenpo.
The price is super reasonable, so we decided to have family traveling also for last weekend.

Pixel 8 Pro is great device for photo shooting.
I like the experience.

On the other hand, my wife forgot her PIN for Ahamo contract.
We are awaiting paper notification from NTT Docomo.
It’s quite inconvenient and actually it’s non-sense to let customer use ancient PIN configured 25 years ago.

Ordered Pixel 8 Pro for me and Pixel 8 for my wife.
We have used iPhone 11 and XR over 4 years, and I think now can be the timing for renewing as Google Stores is offering discount and some refund via store credit.

My wife is positive for the purchase yesterday, but today she turned to negative mode. It’s opposite mood.
She is nervous about the change of operation system as she is not good at catching up IT stuff.
But the problem is I already ordered mine yesterday, and today was the timing to order her Pixel8 by using 50k yen worth credit.

Anyway I ordered for her as well.
Hope she won’t get hysteric.

Finished filing tax return.
Thanks to RSU and ESPP, I had quite big income except for usual salary and bonus, and I need to pay taxes a lot. Around 1M yen.

My total salary crossed 20M in 2023 first time.
This can be one mile stone.
But this doesn’t mean much for my life.
I can expect there’s not much meaning or impact on my life if my income exceed 25M or 30M.
Still I need to work in case with those “small” amount of money.

Quality of life is not so depending on money.
This is common sense for matured people, but I learned finally at age of 40.

Went to Aquarium located in Ibaraki/Oarai.
Then, I ate anglerfish hot pot as lunch, then we enjoyed hot spring.

It’s been a while/sometime for driving to a bit far place (took 2hours or more) as single-day trip.
I believe this type of experience is helpful from various perspective for human being.

Last week was not good actually.
Maybe my health condition was not good, too, as mental and body health is linked.

This type of experience remind me that forgetting non-good stuff is very important capability of us.
Once we forget, the thing or people, experience itself will disappear in my life.

I’m not a big fun of Kou Machida.
But I’m reading his book “私の文学史 なぜ俺はこんな人間になったのか？” and find this quite interesting.

What I come to know is he is deep thinker about literature.
This itself might be super obvious as he is professional.
But without considering those background, and I just thinks what he is thinking and saying is gripping.

He is saying true thing is intriguing.
And this is applicable to what he wrote, I think.

My company announced 5%(4000 headcount) layoff this week.
This itself is not so special. Same volume of restructuring was done also last year.

But what special is my closest colleague in Australia got impacted this time.
He has 2 month time to decide next step.

Might be selfish but this impact on me as well, and a lot.
Since he is the only co-worker having weekly call and we can have casual talk and joking as well.
And I don’t have those kind of friendly relations with other “foreign” colleagues.

I still have co-worker in other department or ex-team in Japan org.
But that’s a bit different.

I feel sort of depression by this news.