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twenty-eight years and a million words

Fukuoka, 2024.06.07

I found myself in the office by 07:30 yesterday, and again today. I've noticed this before when I'm in town. I suppose when I'm visiting this office and have nothing to do at home, I wind up here more than ever. But in reality, I'm out the door by about 07:15 at home anyway when I work in the Tokyo office, so it's more of the same.

One thing I'm pleased about: the watch I put together on the weekend has held up all week. Looks like I finally have a keeper some two years after first buying the body that I suspect was magnetized.

rand()m quote

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.

—Jorge Luis Borges