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Akashi city

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We went to akashi city because my company's branch held a track meet. The athletic field is located inside akashi park in front of akashi station. After cheering, we walked around akashi city. Akashi city is famous for akashi-yaki, which is a kind of tako-yaki. We walked along the shopping street and there are several akashi-yaki shops. We entered this shop because it shows that it is 550 yen($5) including 15 peaces of akashi-yaki for one person. Akashi yaki is called tamago(=egg)-yaki. The surface of ako-yaki is solid but surface of akashi-yaki is soft, shaped like an egg (color is yellow like egg) so it might be called tamago-yaki, I guess. It tasted very good. This is famous akashi-yaki shop. Over this shop, there are sea-shore and we walked aroud there. It was fine day so we enjoyed walking around akashi-city. Akashi city is not big city but I liked this city.

Hirakata T-site

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Hirakata city is good place to live but there aren't many fashionable places. On the north of hirakata, there are kuzuha town and there are kuzuha mall which is most fashinable place in hirakata. But recently most fashinable place was opend. This is hirakata T-site. T-site was built at where departmentstore was built. It is old-fashion store, so it was closed and this building was renewally opend. This building was organized by Tsutaya,  so this is called "T"-site. Tsutaya is unique campany which deals with books, CD/DVD/blue-ray rental and many building is housing sturbucks coffee so atmosphere is very good. Recently this company produces unique bookshops and also handling SIM free smartphone. This campany was first started at hirakata-city, that's why T-site was opend in such normal city. (T-site was located several city around Japan, maybe number of this shop is under 10) This shop houses many shops like glossary shop, wear shop, etc and there ar

Making good usage of commuting

From last July, I've been commuting about 2 hours from my home to my working place so I have certain amout of time at commuting. Commuting is very precious time for me because I can keep certain amount of time for study. Studying English is one option but I don't want to spend much time for it. English is just a tool so if I have a time for studying english, I want to spend time for another things. Studying English is merely like a machinely training for me. It doesn't need intelligence. I don't want to waste my precious time for such a training. (But english is good tool to get huge amount of information so I'm listening english materials at walking, transition period of station because I can't read books in such a situation ) By the way, first priority is reading books. I often read science articles using RSS feed via smartphone but book is special for me. Good books contain wonderful knowledge and wisdom so we can get such informations about $20-$30

Harvesting sweet potatos

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Today, we harvested sweet potatos. It had been raining continuously so today is best day for harvesting. Our parents also came here because my son called them and we began to harvest. It took about 1.5 hour, very tired. I bought 20 peaces of sweet potato's seedlings (about 1000 Yen, 10$) and harvested 70 peaces of potatos. It might be that one peace of sweet potato is about 100-200 Yen so it is not so bad. I chose "naruto-kintoki" brand which is very popular one in Japan. After harvesting, we shared potatos half for parents and us. My mother-in-law immediately cooked "daigaku-imo" which is popular home cooking in Japan.  My son loved them very much.

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