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Kokubunji, 2021.11.15

Every year, I make photo books detailing the kids' lives. This year's batch arrived early this week and now they're on their way. I tried to do this myself but the lady behind the counter made it impossible by only offering high-cost, quick-delivery options that I didn't want. When Mari went in to do it, she said the lady was trying to suggest that we ship the books as paperwork for some crazy reason. Of course that broke my pathetic Japanese.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row