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.
■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 took a rest this morning. I was walking all day yesterday, so I was really tired. I went home last night and went into a kotatsu, but maybe because I was tired, my body was heavy and I felt like I was starting to catch a cold. I took only one dose of Kakkonto and went to the futon early to take a rest. At times like this, it’s best to sleep. Thanks to that, I was able to regain my energy this morning. As expected, I stopped running and postponed it tomorrow.
■ This morning’s Tokyo Shimbun This special news department is 50 years since the birth of “That wonderful love again”. It is written under the title of “Love”, which is written by Osamu Kitayama. As expected, Mr. Kitayama’s sharp points are studded everywhere.
“People in this country like the side-by-side love of looking at the same thing side by side. Like cherry blossom viewing, autumn leaf hunting, and fireworks. Seeing the same scenery, everyone confirms that it’s beautiful. I like it. “
Mr. Kitayama also quoted the old tale “Yuzuru” and said:
“We are really animals, but we live by pretending to be humans with wisdom. In reality, everyone is this Yuzuru. Everyone is hurt, and we are forced to do so that the cloth can never break. Everyone is afraid to be a target and hides that they are cranes, but when someone finds out that they are cranes, they make a full attack to protect themselves. “
Mr. Kitayama republished “My Own Nooto” (Sogensha) in late January. There is such a passage in this book.
“In the first place, loneliness is a strange name. To me, being alone means being together. To me, loneliness means to restore various aspects of myself that have been separated. I believe that being lonely is an important act that is indispensable for loving and correctly recognizing oneself. “
“Because I always meet and interact with someone, I think some people may not have had the moment to be the only one. Loneliness is not an avoidance, but a great opportunity to think about yourself.”
I think this way.
Being alone or lonely is like a baseball pitcher throwing with a bullpen. Face yourself silently without a batter before standing on the mound. What kind of state are you in now? Is the overall balance good? This is the only opportunity to confirm it. Solitude is an important time for everyone.
■ I took a rest this morning. Yesterday I ran more than 10km while recording with my smartphone’s running app, so today is a rest day. Even after the alarm clock rang at 5:30, I was drowsy in the futon for a while. As always, it’s the best luxury time.
■ The other day, an article entitled “Map of Japan in Seicho” was written in the “Big Waves and Small Waves” section of the Tokyo Shimbun. “Seichou Matsumoto reading on a map” (Teikoku Shoin) by Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Kaya Tokuyama and others was published. The “Japanese Map of Seicho’s Works” at the beginning of this book describes the places that appear in Seicho’s works, from Sapporo and Yubari in Hokkaido to Ibusuki in Kagoshima.
The place name of Kamedake that appears in “Sandware” is especially famous. Looking at the homepage of the Okuizumo Tourism Association, there was the following description.
Seicho Matsumoto’s “Castle of Sand” is a masterpiece of a detective novel serialized in the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1960 and became a bestseller. , It became an opportunity for this region to be widely known. The monument was erected at the entrance of the approach to Yuno Shrine in 1983 by Seicho Matsumoto.
In fact, there is also Seicho’s work set here in Numazu. I was drawn to the story of uncovering the secrets hidden in the accident on the highway.
–Masakazu Tamura embodies “his father’s obsession” … approaching the truth of the traffic accident that killed his daughter! Seicho Matsumoto’s original “A coincidence of 1 / 100,000”
It was also broadcast on TV in 2019. I missed this TV drama. I read the original in 2020, so it seems that it was a year late.
In this way, Seicho Matsumoto has left his mark all over Japan.
■I took a rest this morning without running. I ran a little less than 10 km yesterday morning so today is a rest day.
I took 1mg of melatonin from Non-chan and went to bed last night. Melatonin is not commercially available in Japan, but it seems to be available as a supplement in the United States. It seems to be widely used as a sleep inducer.
One tablet is 1 mg, so I decided to take one tablet and see what happened. However, it didn’t seem to suit my constitution at all. It worked well in terms of introducing sleep, but after about two hours, something went wrong.
Mysterious dreams that didn’t make sense appeared one after another in my head, as if they were crackling like fireworks. In other words, I didn’t feel a deep sleep. Of course, I’m not asleep, but it’s been really painful.
I used to use roselem as a melatonin receptor agonist, one of the three major insomnia treatments, but at that time, I was so confused that I couldn’t work the next morning. At that time, there was no particular problem while I was asleep, so it seems that melatonin itself and melatonin receptor agonists work differently in my case. It may happen, though.
There are really individual differences in how the medicine works. The side effects are similar. Even with anti-allergic eye drops, I have been in trouble because of drowsiness. You don’t know if you take it internally, and even with eye drops, you need to be careful when using the medicine.
I took a rest this morning. As the weather forecast yesterday, it was raining until this morning, so I set the alarm clock to 5:30 and kept it in the futon without getting up.
Last night Sun went to a hot spring inn in Mito with Non-chan. I cooked my own supper, took a bath, and spent time alone.
I saw Hitchcock’s “Bird”. That story is about birds suddenly attacking humans. It must have been a lot of trouble to shoot because it was an era when there was no computer graphics yet.
There is only director Hitchcock, who is said to be a suspense master, and there are many scenes where the spine gets cold. One of the most memorable scenes was the interaction of the residents at the restaurant.
It is a scene in which the mother of a child who was frightened by reports of abnormal bird behavior one after another accused Melanie, the hero of the stranger, as the cause of such an abnormal phenomenon, “You are a witch.”
A pandemic caused by the new coronavirus is occurring, but under such an abnormal group psychological state, witch hunting must have begun.
Witch hunting should never be the story of the distant medieval times. In a situation where anxiety dominates many people without knowing the exact cause, human psychology may not be cured unless someone is sacrificed as the cause.
It is hard to imagine how many people were sacrificed under these unusual groups of psychology. The movie tells us that it’s not a story from a long time ago.
I was waking up with the intention of running this morning, but I was really tired. I ran the last 7.8 km on Saturday and achieved my goal of 100 km a month. And yesterday was golf with a big friend. It was a fun day with the best weather, but I didn’t feel like getting up this morning.
I spent my time in a warm futon from 4:30, but what is the luxury?
It’s February from today. Spring is just around the corner. This morning’s photo shows the Tachikawa City Half Marathon, which I participated in with Taku in 2017. The start is the Ground Self-Defense Force station runway, which is a unique tournament that can only be experienced at this tournament.
It will appear in the novel by Shion Miura, which I am reading, with the theme of Hakone Ekiden, “Run with the Wind.” The Hakone Ekiden qualifying session seems to start from here. The course that goes around the runway twice, leaves the garrison and runs in the city is drawn, but when we run, it feels like we ran around and went out into the city.
However, the distance between the qualifying session and the Tachikawa City Half Marathon is 20 km, so I may have run the same course. The vastness of the runway is depicted in the novel, but if the athlete runs to the very end, it may look like a bean grain from the spectators’ seats.
When I leave the garrison and enter the city, I drive on a fine double-lane road, but I rarely have the opportunity to drive on such a wide road. I realized that I was really running a marathon.
As I read the book, I remembered that Sunday, March 5th, which was four years ago. That weekend was a really fun weekend, celebrating the eve of the tournament and having a drink, and the next day, after running, we went to the one-day hot spring that Taku checked and healed our tiredness.
I participated again, but when I looked it up, it was decided to cancel early in 2021 due to the corona disaster. I’m really sorry that I can’t participate.
■I took a rest this morning. I was off from the afternoon yesterday, so I usually use that time to shop and go to the post office, but yesterday’s rain forced me to stay home.
From the evening, the temperature dropped sharply and it became colder. When I was watching the news on TV, it was snowing in Oyama Town in Shizuoka. It was reported that the temperature dropped sharply in Tokyo and sleet was fluttering in the city center.
And today, it is forecast that a low pressure system will develop rapidly in the Sea of Japan, and in Hokuriku, the Tohoku region, and Hokkaido, there will be another blizzard.
Here too, the wind has strengthened since 7 o’clock and the leaves of the trees are shaking violently. The outside is a blue sky, but it must be heavy snow on the Sea of Japan side. The weather is stormy before Setsubun.
■An article entitled “Co-development of his vaccine between Iran and Cuba” is written on page 9 of the Tokyo Shimbun this morning. Both countries have approached each other in recent years under the circumstances of suffering from US sanctions.
It is written that Iran wants to take advantage of Cuba’s high medical technology to develop domestic vaccines at once. Cuba is known as a medically advanced country, and it is said that medical cooperation is an important means of overseas strategy, but such information is hardly known in Japan.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif visited Havana, the capital city last November, and praised Cuba’s medical technology as “impressed.” The two countries are said to have confirmed cooperation in the medical, chemical and energy fields. This area is described in detail in the following article.
The current situation in Japan is that information on countries that oppose the United States is somehow out of our reach. This sometimes makes it very difficult to judge the current situation correctly.