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Kokubunji, 2025.02.19

I've been involved in a process by which we're leading 14-hour days for this thing everyday at work. It involves being in a basement from just after sun-up. I managed to slip away to buy some lunch today because of my reduced duties on this eighth day. It was about eight degrees as I made my way to a nearby "Maruetsu" and bought lunch. Looking up, I could see bright white snow blowing on the wind at about five hundred meters elevation under mixed cloud cover. It was breathtaking.

Three reasons to be thankful:

  1. Almost done with my obligations!
  2. The Boy is OK with my missing his final game as captain of the all-star basketball team for western Tokyo last week
  3. I've certainly learned a lot while doing this

rand()m quote

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—-Antoine de Saint Exupery