■I ran this morning. It rained all morning yesterday and stopped in the evening, but strong winds blew up due to the development of low pressure. I thought it would be calm this morning, so I woke up at 4:30 as usual.
When I woke up, I was struck by the sound of the wind roaring outside the window, but I couldn’t reach my goal unless I ran today, so I changed my clothes and left the door. I put a bag of kitchen waste in the collection point and started after the preparatory movement.
I passed in front of my friend’s house, confirmed that the lights were on, and headed to the schoolyard of the elementary school.
I ran 9.87 km in 1 hour and 25 seconds this morning, piled up 51.45 km in 5 runs this month, and reached 48.54 km with 12 days left until I ran 100 km a month.
Anyway, the wind was strong, and even if I was running in the schoolyard, I was running in total darkness, so I was off course due to the strong wind without knowing it, and I knew where I was running for a moment. It was easy when there was a tailwind, but when I was running toward the southwest wind, it was difficult to move forward.
Still, I was relieved to finish running safely. There is no choice but to stack up.
■ The tablet iPlay40 that arrived at my house the other day is useful, but yesterday the Gmail app suddenly stopped working. In other words, I can no longer check Google mail.
However, there are loopholes. You can check Gmail from the browser Chrome, so you can process it from there, but it is troublesome because it takes a lot of work.
I don’t know why the Gmail app suddenly stopped launching on iPlay40. No doubt he’s not affected by his American sanctions on Huawei.
The problem may be resolved over time. There is no choice but to wait patiently.
I took a rest this morning. According to the weather forecast last night, it started to rain before 6 am and the wind was blowing all morning, so I took a rest at 6 am to wake up.
However, when I woke up this morning, the sky was covered with black clouds, but it was not raining. In this case, even if I got up and ran as usual, it might have been just barely safe.
Having said that, I moved around all day yesterday, so I’m tired and it doesn’t make sense to overdo it. Normally, it’s just the middle day of the month, but since there are only 28 days this month, the turning point has already passed.
From tomorrow, I will need to build up again in order to achieve a whopping 100km a month in February.
■ When I went to get the newspaper this morning, it was a holiday. Even newspapers need holidays, so it’s natural, but for me, who is looking forward to it every day, it’s kind of out of place.
So this morning I reread yesterday’s morning edition, which I couldn’t read slowly yesterday. Yesterday, I took a quick look and felt uncomfortable about Eiichi Shibusawa being posted, but I was convinced last night. The main character of NHK’s taiga drama was Eiichi Shibusawa.
Many people have learned about Eiichi Shibusawa, who has made countless achievements, at school, so it’s easy to imagine that it’s not much different from me, who seems to know but doesn’t know.
I noticed the contents of Shibusawa’s intentions written in a small column. This column is entitled “Lifelong study, valuing new ideas”. The article cites his words as the driving force behind his many achievements.
All people, regardless of aged or adolescence, will never progress or develop if they lose their mind to study. He tries to be new every day, and it is interesting to be new every day. When everything flows into the form, the spirit becomes poor. It is important to keep in mind that today is a new day.
The article concludes that it conveys the importance of not only continuing to study and living a formal life, but also having a new feeling every day.
I think that’s true. When people, including myself, grow older, they repeat the same thing every day. This is because I feel reassured to think and process what I have experienced so far. When faced with something you don’t know or have never experienced, you have to think for yourself. It’s very troublesome.
When talking to elderly people, I sometimes feel that the same thing is often asked repeatedly. If you spend your time with new feelings every day, you will become a new self.
Isn’t it the right and duty of those born in this world to live with new feelings every day until the day when their lives run out?
■ I took a rest this morning. I ran hard yesterday, so today is a rest day.
Well, the Chinese tablet I ordered arrived yesterday. I ordered it on January 17th, but it was shipped on February 9th. And yesterday, the goods arrived at my house. “All docube iPlay 40 UNISOC T618 Octa Core 8GB RAM 128GB ROM 4G LTE 10.4 Inch 2K Screen Android 10 Tablet”.
It’s a tablet that you can get for just over 20,000 yen, but it’s very popular and it seems that there were many orders from Japan. I received an email from Banggood, which I ordered, asking me to wait a little longer because there are so many orders that production is not in time.
Tablets, such as the iPad, have made great strides. As expected, I don’t own the original iPad, but I bought one to commemorate the 30th anniversary of my marriage. It was 2012. Will that be his third generation iPad?
It can still be used at home. Apple has a beautiful screen called a retina display. Even if it is a little sluggish, you will not feel any inconvenience unless you process the video or are absorbed in the game.
I read a book with lots of beautiful pictures in PDF format, such as Fabre’s Insects, on a tablet, but reading it on the beautiful screen of the iPad makes reading even more enjoyable.
The tablet I bought this time is not 4K, but it seems to have a beautiful screen called 2K. Simply put, the cost performance is excellent. The tasks I do on a daily basis, such as exchanging e-mails, enjoying YouTube, enjoying reading including color books, searching on the Internet, etc., are handled quickly enough.
Last night I put the Kindle app on this tablet and read “A strong wind is blowing”. One of the great things about this tablet is that it has a reading display format, which means that when you choose it, the screen changes to a black and white version.
The Kindle has a non-LCD display style called eInk, so you can’t read color books, but unlike LCDs, you can read them in the same way as printed books. The feature of the terminal using eInk is
Electronic paper displays, also known as “reflective displays,” do not require any backlight and are similar to traditional paper visibility principles, so the brighter the environment, the clearer the visibility of e-paper. ..
When reading with an e-book reader that uses an e-paper display, the greatest strength is that it has a long drive time because it consumes power only when turning pages.
On the other hand, displays such as LCDs and OLEDs cannot display images without a backlight, and also have problems such as eye fatigue and are easily affected by blue light.
Last night I read it in the reading display format of this tablet and it was very easy on the eyes.
And what I feel most about 9 years after the iPad is the lightness of this tablet. It is 475 grams. The 3rd generation iPad weighs 662 grams, so the difference is huge for carrying around.
The iPad was more than three times as expensive as this tablet. The parts are lighter and really lighter, so you can easily take them anywhere. I think that such lightness, thinness, shortness and miniaturization was a specialty of Japanese companies, but unfortunately, it is no longer superior to Chinese products.
Some time ago, Chinese pads or Chinese smartphones were said to be synonymous with cheap but poorly made products, but now the situation is completely different. The flow of the world has really changed.
■I got up at 4 o’clock this morning and ran. The alarm clock was set at 4:30, but I woke up earlier than that. If you fall asleep again here, it will be very hard to get up this time.
I was tired yesterday, so I went to bed at 9 o’clock last night and took a rest early. Thanks to that, I think I was able to get up smoothly this morning. Today I ran 10.74 km in 1 hour 9 minutes 41 seconds.
This month I piled up 41.58 km in four runs, leaving 58.41 km with 16 days left to run 100 km a month.
I used Runkeeper on my smartphone to keep a record today. You will be notified every time you run 1 km, so you can keep track of the progress of your run and you can run with great peace of mind.
It’s a little short of the goal line on the 12th day, but I want to achieve a whopping 100km a month in February, which is 3 days less than usual.
I was running this morning and was able to run smoothly and lightly for the first 5 km, but after that I felt a little discomfort in my right knee, but I managed to run to the end safely.
■ On the front page of the Tokyo Shimbun this morning, there is a statement, “To resign as chairman of the Mori Organizing Committee, to take responsibility for women’s disdain, and to succeed Kawabuchi at the Tokyo Olympics and Para.”
The impression is that it’s finally over, and in a Japanese organization, the organization wouldn’t turn around without someone like Yoshiro Mori. After all, it’s a proof that the Tokyo Olympics have become virtually difficult to hold.
If it could really be held, Mr. Mori must have continued to serve as chairman. Will the Tokyo Olympics be held? The conclusion must come out not so long. Time and money are limited.
■さて今この文章の入力は、 Acer Chromebook R 13で開いた Google ドキュメントで音声入力しているのですが、昨日までの環境とは違って変換がとてもスムーズのような気がします。変換効率もとても優秀です。
昨日までは Linux を入れたパソコンで同様の環境から入力していたのですが、少なくとも Google ドキュメント上の音声入力は優秀とは言い難い性能だったのです。
それに何よりも、こうして文章を作り上げた後に、確認のためにテキストを読み上げて音声で入力間違いがないかを確認しているのですが、それは T2S と呼ばれる Text to Speech なるソフトなのです。このソフトは確認した限りでは Windows にも Linux にも見つけることができませんでした。
さらに Acer Chromebook R 13はタッチパネルになっていますので、必要な箇所へマウスを用いてカーソルを移動する代わりに指でタッチすれば事が済みます。これは結構便利なのです。
アメリカでは学校での占有率が6割以上と言われていますから、 日本ではまだまだこれから増えていくに違いありません。値段も通常の Windows パソコンに比べればずっと廉価ですし、何よりも動作がキビキビとしてもたつくことがほとんどありません。多くの生徒のパソコンを一括管理することもずっと容易のようです。
しかし私は Microsoft Office を持っていませんし使用していません。 こうなると大変不便なのです。ネット上で相手側のサーバーにアクセスして必要な情報をネット上で入力できるようになれば、面倒なやり取りがかなり簡素化されるのですが、残念ながら今のところそうなる様子はありません。
単なる一私企業の製品である Microsoft Office が事実上のスタンダードになってしまっている状況は、役所に提出する文章は一太郎でなければだめだ、と言われた昔々の時代を思い起こさせるのです。とてもおかしなことなのですが、もう誰もそれをおかしいとは思わなくなっています。それが、おかしいのです。
■I took a rest this morning. I ran a little over 8 km yesterday, so today is a rest day. Since I started running in the playground of an elementary school, I have changed the running interval and distance.
It is now becoming a standard to run 10 km once every three days. Theoretically, even if you run 3 km every day, you can run 100 km a month with a little extra work, but I can’t get rid of my tiredness when I run every day.
In short, the resilience from fatigue may be declining with age. I think I’m fine for 67 years old, but I’m sure it’s age-appropriate.
■ Now, I’m inputting this sentence by voice in his Google Docs opened on Acer Chromebook R 13, but I feel that the conversion is very smooth unlike the environment until yesterday. The conversion efficiency is also very good.
Until yesterday, I used to input from a similar environment on a computer with Linux installed, but at least the voice input on Google Docs was far from excellent.
Above all, after composing the text in this way, I convert the text to voice on a personal computer for confirmation and check if there are any input errors. It is a software called T2S called Text to Speech. As far as I checked, I couldn’t find this software on either Windows or Linux.
In addition, the Acer Chromebook R 13 has a touch panel, so instead of moving the cursor to the required location with the mouse, you can just touch it with your finger. This is quite convenient.
It seems that a personal computer was introduced by the GIGA school concept at Numazu City Ohira Junior High School, where Sun is going out as a supporter, but the model introduced was his Chromebook.
Perhaps because of this initiative, his Chromebook market share in notebooks has increased sharply since last year. It is now said that one in four is his Chromebook.
It is said that the occupancy rate in schools is more than 60% in the United States, so there is no doubt that it will continue to increase in Japan. The price is much cheaper than that of a normal Windows PC, and above all, the operation is almost never jarring. It seems much easier to manage the computers of many students at once.
If the kids get used to her Chromebook at school, they’ll eventually buy and use it themselves.
The point of Chromebooks is to complete the processing of data online. It is an attempt to change the conventional way of processing and exchanging data using software called Microsoft Office, like a Windows personal computer.
As a measure against corona infection, the government requires you to submit various documents, but most of them are sent in Excel format, and you have to fill them out and return them.
But I don’t have or use Microsoft Office. This is very inconvenient. If you can access the other party’s server on the net and enter the necessary information on the net, the troublesome exchange will be considerably simplified, but unfortunately it does not seem to be the case so far.
The situation where Microsoft Office, which is just a product of a private company, has become a de facto standard, reminds me of the old days when the text to be submitted to the government office had to be created by Ichitaro, a Japanese word processor software. It’s very weird, but no one thinks it’s weird anymore. That’s strange.
If the Japanese government creates the Digital Agency, I would like all processing to be completed only on the Internet. That is true digitization. It’s a shame that I can’t expect it so far.
I ran this morning. It’s been 4 days since last Friday, 5th. I ran 8.90 km, and this month I’ve piled up 30.84 km in three runs, leaving 69.15 km with 19 days left to run 100 km a month. As of the 9th, it is almost the target line.
I used runkeeper as a running app this morning. This is because voice guidance is available. It will give me voice guidance every 10 minutes and every 1 km so that I can check the pace while running and easily consider how much more I should run to reach my goal.
I felt that the time was very long while I was running, probably because I was tired today. As usual, I passed in front of my friend’s house, checked the lights, and then headed to the schoolyard. I set the timer to 35 minutes this morning. Judging from my physical condition, I set it to a reasonable level.
■ By the way, a special article entitled “How to treat yourself” was published in the Tokyo Shimbun.
“No matter how brilliant the talent or the person who has to be a company, we cannot escape the weakening of the mind and body. Whether to continue fighting or to withdraw gracefully. Each person has 100 years of life. Now that life planning is being questioned in the times, think about how to treat yourself. “
One of the people mentioned is Mr. Teruzo Ina, the former president of INAX (currently LIXIL). Born as a child of the founder, at the age of 42 he naturally became president of a company with more than 3,000 employees. He served as president for 16 years, and at the age of 58, he took over the president to an unrelated employee.
When asked why he quit early, he replied that he began to realize that there was a limit to the way one person could think if he continued for a long time.
Ina decided to quit the president at the age of 60, quit all industry and regional positions by the age of 70, and spend the rest of his life as an individual with no organizational benefits or restrictions. Ina wanted to maintain a connection with society even if he had no title.
At the age of 70, he resigned as chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and at the same time resigned from all public offices, but two years before that, when the Chubu International Airport opened in his hometown, he decided to work as a guide volunteer.
Finally, Mr. Ina says: “Even if I don’t belong to an organization, I think there are many ways to continue to be involved with society as an individual according to their age, ability, physical strength, etc., as a person in this era. Regarding the connection with society, I want to be “active throughout my life.”
It should not be as easy as it sounds for someone like Ina, who has been active as the top of the organization for many years, to work with men and women of all ages in the same position as a complete volunteer. I think many people will hit a mental wall such as pride and retreat. This is because they cannot stand an equal position, which is different from before.
I felt that there was a lot to learn from Mr. Ina, who has lived a life of unity.
