I use Rakuten for hometown tax donation program.
When I do that at good timing like Okaimono Marathon, I could get Rakuten points a lot.

I usually don’t want anything to buy.
But sometimes I could get interested in buying some gadgets like Condenser Microphones.
I’m not rich person, so I will hesitate to use my money to buy stuffs I want.
This is based more on my personal characteristic.

But if I have some point of credit card or shopping site, it’s more easy for me to consume just for my own desire.

I have 18k points in Rakuten, but I can’t come up the usage of the point.
Need to keep considering.

I visited and spent this weekend in Nagano.
It was a memorial service to mark the first anniversary of my grandmother-in-law dying.
Even in Nagano, it was hot weekend.

Actually we drove to Nagano at late night in Friday to avoid traffic jam.
But still there’s a lot of cars, maybe because it was long weekend. (Monday is holiday).

We just came back my home now.
We could avoid severe road congestion by leaving at 9 am.

There’s turmoil and panic around 5ch BBS recently.
Jane is the app to view and create a post for the BBS but suddenly it stopped support for 5ch BBS.
And now Jane only support talk.jp.

So users who want to use those app and who want to use original 5ch BBS is get divided forcibly.
It’s a bit tricky to explain even in Japanese.

It’s a shame since there was good information sharing on the BBS but now it’s not possible to continue.
There was a history of the internet in Japan and 2ch/5ch BBS definitely played some role, though all the famous BBS/SNS/whatever popular tool played certain role for sure.

I went to bed with my younger daughter on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Largely because having 2 can of beer on Sat/Sun, and went to Yakitori restaurant.
I felt asleep during putting my daughter to sleep due to the effect of alcohol.

When I was young alcohol didn’t make me sleepy, but now it does.
That is the difference with getting older.

I could spend a lot of time for having sleep. Not sure if it’s good.
At least, I didn’t have nightmare.

I read the comic Skip and Loafer.
The atmosphere and the story line are great and nostalgic.
Definitely memorable and I’m touched.

As I wrote in the previous blog, the documentary about Mishima was also impressive.
I’ll never forget the feeling of watching it

But nothing in my daily life has changed clearly.
The same kind of days go on.
But then again, something might have changed but I just couldn’t be aware of.

There are a lot of things, including books, movies, TV dramas, games, comics which I forget to experience.
Those might have influenced me too, though I couldn’t notice my change.

I’ve watched documentary films of Mishima Yukio and his discussion session with about 1000 members of student movement at the university of Tokyo.
His attitude and himself looks very attractive and likable, and he was always sincere and respectful for the students.

To be honest, some of the expression in the discussion is a bit tricky and tough to understand clearly, but interesting to be think of.

The documentary is recommendable.

Checking the air tickets to Cebu in Aug.
Seems it’s reasonable and not so costly.

But in addition to money and availability of tickets, still there’s challenges.
My wife is working part-time job, and having vacation is not so easy.
If we go to Cebu, she need to take almost whole month off in Aug.

Elder daughter is going to private tutor for preparing exam for private junior high school.
So summer class is also need to be taken care as must family schedule.

Winter and spring vacation is not long, and Golden Week is expensive week to get the flight tickets.
So, it’s very burdensome and messy to finish.

Even if I can overcome those challenges, still it’s not comfortable at reservation since I can’t cancel or change the schedule flexibly due to cheap tickets and reservation.

I could focus on the submission for my proposal to external conference. It’s good.

Not much news from my usual days.
Sometimes I feel like I’m just spending all my time for working and taking care of my daughters.
It’s not true and now I can write down this blog, but sense and feeling is not so logical.

Future will be less exciting?
Sounds it’s not correct.
But at least time is getting valuable day by day.

Manager suggested me to have a session in upcoming external customer event in Melbourne.
Being a speaker is my dream so no issue from that angle.

But it will have strict screening and review, so there’s no guarantee that I can be a speaker.
In addition to that, manager disclosed the information to my team as I’ll pursue the opportunity, as a result.
With Japanese thought process, this is not good, since it might be a kind of humiliation or embarrassing if I failed to be a presenter.

But anyways, there’s no other way from being positive and constructive.

Had 2 events this weekend.

Held home party with ex-teacher of kindergarten and with family friend in same condo.
Children also enjoyed gathering and played around in my house.

Visited Country Farm Tokyo German Village by using coupon from benefit station.
It was very hot weather, but still manage to play outside.
It was not a good season for watching flowers, but the visit was good lesson learn that the park is good place to visit with family.

I found basket goal and played some, and now having muscle ache.

For some reason, bluetooth adapter integrated onto the motherboard started to work again.
Because of this, I had some trouble with other USB bluetooth adapter, but now it should be all good.