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Barbecue party

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Today , we did barbecue with wife's parents living near our home. Today's weather forcast were 60% rainy bit we were lucky that it didn't rain. This time, I used this item I'd bought the other day. It helps burning charcoal easily like below so I tried. Indeed, it is very easy to fire charcoal. I bought it about 2000 yen and it is a foldaway one so it's very good. There are some improvement points. two barbeque is better. This time I used charcoal booster written above so if I brought second barbeque, I can use this for charcoal booster while cooking at another barbeque. It's better to check if charcoal go to pieces before doing barbecue. Our charcoal I bought about 1 years before have went to pieces ! towel is neccesary. I sweated heavily today. enough water is neccesary. we all were thirsty.

Repairment of air bed

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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. 

Camp at shiga

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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)

A waist cushion

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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.

Coleman XP Hexa Tarp /S

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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.

A story behind brain research

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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

Nest of long-legged wasp

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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