From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

Our air bed for camp was broken due to air leakage so I tried to fix it. This is a small pin hole. This is too small so it takes about 1-2 hours to leak air. Using mending tape which I bought it 100 yen. 

We went to camping on 10-11 Sep. 10th Sep was saturday so after finishing regular swiming lesson of my son, we left osaka about 4:30 PM, arrived mutu-yazaki camping site about 8 o'clock. Making tento, eating box lunch, we went to regular hot-spring place " hotel kai-tourou ", which is about 10 min. driving, then went back to camping site. This night, there were terrible happing. We placed a handy-type mosquito coil (katori-senkou) inside tento and this is a false-bottom type so I put 3 mosquito coil inside it. After sleeping, we smell strange,waiking up and found smoke was very strong(almost burning) ! We were almost choked with mosquito coil's smoke. So I seldom slept this night.(my son slept well)

When I came back to my hometown for a long time driving (about 5 hours), I had waist pain again. So I decided to buy waist cushion. I bought two, one is for car driving and the other is for my working purpose. I could easily find good one for car driving at a car shop(Auto Backs), but I could hardly find good one for my workplace. There are many types of waist cushions but many of them are for good style like straightening one's spine or like that. But there are little for medical type. Finally I can find such type of cushion so I decided to buy one.

I bought Coleman XP Hexa Tarp/S. I have Penta ? Tarp but it is a little small. So I searched more big one, and I found it. As I happend to go to himaraya sports shop, I found it discounted so I bought it (\11,000 including tax). One month before, I tried it but it is not beautifully constructed. So I watched this and tried again today. There are several points.  - First, spread the sheet also poles on the earth, with pole's legs spreading.  - Second, connect ropes to the poles and the sheet. Ropes connecting with poles should be pegged on the earth.  - Third, pull up poles and adjust pole leg's width, also adjusting rope's length.  - Then put pole's legs a little inside, and line of the top of the tarp became beautiful.  - And last, pegged other 4  ropes on the earth.       The silhouette of this coleman's tarp is very beautiful. I liked it.

I happened to find this article . I pushed this article to my kindle and read it. It's very intersting story. H. M w as a man who were unable to hold on to the present moment for more than 30 seconds or so. I knew the name of H.M. but didn't know a story around him and researchers so it's very interesting story for me. After reading this article, I saw another  article  in facebook. Two articles are related to a newly released  book. That's why I often find a story about H.M. The author of this book  Luke Dittrich  and female researcher  Suzanne Corkin  are both related deeply to H.M., former is grandson of surgeon who operated brain surgery to H.M. and the latter was a resercher who researched H.M. for long period of time. So it is why this book seemed to be very intersting. This author's grandfather did brain operation to H.M. which performed on both sides of his brain and intended to treat Henry's epilepsy, renderd himm profoundly amnesi

We had an air-conditioner which seldom been used for about 10 years since we build our home, so we planned to move it to another room. And yesterday, repairer of air-conditioner has come and checked it and find that there are nest of bee near the outdoor unit. So this movement work was cancelled due to danger. ( The repairer said that this air-conditioner is 10 years old so it is better not to move it because it'll often been broken down in 1 year for its removal so I decided to buy new one.) I searched remover of nest via internet and find this company  and called about 9 AM today and called back soon. And remover has come about 0:30 PM.  Checking the nest, it is a nest of yellow long-legged wasp. They said that it is the second dangerous bee to hornet. Basic price is \6800 but it need extra money(about \10,000 for their protection and their safety against bee, it depends on bee's type). And furthermore, it needs extra money for speicial treatment which killed re

Last week , our house's light at kitchen was down. Switch of light was broken. 10 years has passed since our house was made, so it might be such a time. And I was searching this switch. It indicates "JW-S11" "NKK", and went to some electronics stores, but could not find this switch. This maker (NKK) has some branch including Osaka, but it is not near our house. So I search this words with amazon and find this. Amazing ! It is about 2$ plus 6$ of sending cost. And ordered 4 days before and arrived yesterday. And today, I fixed the light using soldering iron. I was surprised that amazon deal with such kind of things which normal people seldom needs. Very convenient period of time !

For me, keeping time for reading is very important. Reading good books is very fatastic experience for me. It is like meeting very talent people. We can talk to top level person directly through books, and I can talk to a person who are already died through books. Recently, I always carry two type of books, one is traditional paper books and another is e-books. I'm a fan of amazon kindle. Kindle is very good for me because it is light, easy to read because it contains dictionary so I can find meanings of unknown words immediately, and is restricted for reading books. I commute about 1 hour 50 min. for one way and it is good time for reading. To make use of separated short times in a dairy life is good for reading. I fully use of this time for reading. And most important things is to choose good books. There are many garbage books around us but also there are very good books around us so getting informations about good books is very very important.

Reading today's nikkei newspaper's advertisement of University, I'm surprised to find that almost all of them says we are seeking "globa". Everytime I see this word, I always feel that it is empty word. Are they want to show their foolishness using this word ? As writing  here , It does not matter for me. But I'm wondering that if many japanese university is like that, japan is over. People want to study so they go, that's all I think. But many japanese people lose these most important thing. It is same in top university's student (of course all of them is not like that, but as far as my experience, many japanese people care about "ability of study". It's very sad. ) My opinion is that the right to study is a basic right for human beings, so it is nonsense to spend much money for studying. From that point of view, Japan is good country because public university's fee is low compared with other western university. But japanese pe

I knew her song when reading this blog  in 2007. I like her sorrowful song. I don't know much about fad but music rooted on traditional sounds like fad is good. I had gone to Portugal once, walking around Lisbon. I didn't go to music pub of fad but I remenbered the memory of Portugal in 1991.  We always listen popular music and it sounds similar, Japanese songs, USA songs. Hearing such songs, I feel freshness and sometimes I was deeply moved.

This week ,   we can see Mars very closely so I and my son watched Mars. From this picture, it is like dot. But as seeing from our naked eyes, it looked big,bright brown color. I was very surprised to see this largeness of star. My son also liked this star. I also used tablet app "Star map" to find Mars. It is very useful because we move my tablet towards stars and this app indicates a name of this star. When I was a child, I used a real star map on a circuit plate. Ciuruiting map by date, time, I can find which stars was found in certain direction. Both is good tools for science lovers.