Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

It's possible that rainy season ends in the beginning of July, even in Tohoku - I'm talking like this with my mom. It's already been reported that rainy season in Kanto and Koushin area has already ended. Hot weather has been continuing also in Sendai since the Thursday before last.

Finally got home, relieved that I've got finished safely the work for the week. I checked the thermometer at the entrance. "29C (84F)." I said to myself. "It reached 37C (99F) in the day" I doubted my ears. Didn't she mistake the indicator of the thermometer, 35C for 30C? She continued "the thermometer of the air conditioner, with digital display also indicated 38C." Looks like it was that hot around home when I was away. In the day I was near Sendai station, and it was burning hot there too.

Summer heat in Sendai continues. Looks like hot weather continue for a week, with temperature over 30C (86F) on weekend.  I barely escaped from heat stroke, but still I feel weaker than usual. Keeping on being careful, taking water and minerals before I feel thirsty.

I have a tendency to have a bad sleep after making a lot of speech. I hope to sleep better tonight, making every effort to relax, after a meeting of adults with developmental disorders.

Monthly report for this month has been over. Looks like I did well enough, especially in my speech. Now I need some rest, for I pushed so hard that I called that "overload mode", and my heart is still slightly beating.

Yesterday and today it was really hot for the time of this year, with temperature over 30C (86F). It is going to be as hot as today, almost all through this week. I hope my body will get used to this heat.

Today it was really hot for this season. The thermometer at the entrance of home indicated 32C (almost 90F), in the afternoon. I ran an air conditioner in my room, with power off timer. Once the air conditioner turned off at 6p.m. the temperature of the room rose to 30C. Tomorrow it's going to be as hot as today, so I need to continue to be careful of heat stroke.

Today I swam in a local indoor pool. Last time was probably 2 weeks ago. Swimming is one of a few ways to cope with my shortage of exercises these days, for, for some reason, I feel discouraged to going on cycling since I ran Sendai International Half Marathon. Last year, if my memory serves, I swam once or twice a week, unless I didn't have an extra event or my condition was really bad. Well, but it may be not really so often in this time of last year too, for the state of my mind and body wasn't so good, as is open happened with me in this time of the year, either rainy, humid or extremely hot season.

This week I was much slower than usual in doing regular paperwork. I guess this is because of hidden tiredness from the LPIC 200 exam I took last Saturday. In spite of its good result, I was much affected by the tension before and after exam, which may be overload on my mind.

A holiday can be just an all-day rest, but as well as it can be rehabilitation of having a leisure. Today, taking one, I had hard time to resist to play a video game all the day, went to a zoo and enjoy walking and sketching. The zoo was too big to enjoy on a day, especially when you want to enjoy details. I'm thinking that it's good to visit there to enjoy again on some weekends and (perhaps half) paid holidays.

Much slower recently things other than work. Well not really slow. I'm thinking to as much as I used to, but now I'm aware that most of my thoughts disappear before I take notes. I still feel and think a lot about my present situation and my past, but thoughts appear and disappear in a short period like bubbles.

I was one of the worst candidates for recruiters when I was about to graduate from university. There were a lot of problems with me, mainly about communication problems, but the worst problem was that I was unbeliever of myself. The greatest problem was that I was obsessed with the idea that nobody wanted me, and I was the least unwelcome, which was wrong idea, in spite of the fact that I had fatal problem of shyness and mental instability. Some of you may feel similar feeling, because you have serious communication problems. However, in spite of all that, you may want to start to believe in yourselves. I have learned that the disbelief in myself was the worst thing killing my capabilities, proficiencies, and even my life.

Recently the line-up of soft drink vending machine near the station has been changed. Now all items are cold. I miss hot canned coffees, especially in the relatively cold weather in the rainy season.

Yesterday I passed LPIC 202 exam, but in order to be certified as LPIC Level 2, I also need to pass LPIC 201 exam. I already start studying from yesterday. I want to take the exam before August 15, taking a possibility that I have to retry at least once. I can't use all energy and time to study all for LPIC exam. I also want to prepare for Abilympics, vocational skill contest for a month away. I participate in the competition of web page making.

I passed LPIC 202 exam. There are several questions I wasn't sure, and the score wasn't as high as that of my level 1 exams. I also saw several keywords I had never seen when I was practicing exam prep tests: It's important, however, to be able to answer, what I remember through repeated practice. After all, the situation I have to choose an unknown keywords, chances are I miss the question anyway. Fortunately, I chose known words in more than 90 % of the questions, and guessing from my score, it looks like I answered correctly 80-85% of all questions.

The ink of my ballpoint pen has been running out since the beginning of this week. I prepared a refill on Wednesday, and take this and the pen with me, but the ink hasn't really been run out until today.

Before I start for work, I regularly decide the point I especially want to take care of, in order to avoid mistakes and continue working with a good mental state.

I wore to work my new undershirt and socks I had got on Saturday. I didn't feel so comfortable when I tried them on right after I purchased, and thought it was my bad choice. After I wore all the day it wasn't so bad, at least as good as to I can forget about them at work.

Yesterday, I disabled high contrast mode of user assist on my father's laptop. It seemed to have been triggered by keyboard shortcut or other unintended operation. I learned a lesson from this event: When an unintended user assist function of a PC is triggered, it is possible that the user, especially beginners, may think that PC has been out of order, because its screen looks quite different than normal or the results of key stroke can be quite different from them he or she is used to.

My philosophy for blogging, under constructions:  Writing smallest things every day.  Try to find what to write in my daily life and my past life events. New attempts I want to make  Trying to introduce my favorite things in my childhood  Historical monuments near my home.

Schedule for this week:  Wednesday I visit City Branch Office to renew certification for mental health medical care deduction. I took a half holiday for the day beforehand.  On Saturday, 10:00 a.m., I'm taking LPIC 202 exam. Looks like I've learned by heart, the answers for practice question and tests. However I'm going to be tested whether I really have enough basic knowledge to maintenance network application servers.  Some time this month, I will have to renew bike insurance, taking annual bike maintenance.

I'm setting up 3 Linux virtual machines. I downloaded CentOS 6.9 2 weeks ago. It took 4 hours to download the ISO image, required for its install. As is a thing likely to happen my Wi-Fi network condition, with not so high reliability, I had failed the download twice. At the third time I got to know download was successful, with checking MD5 value. It was 2 weeks before I actually begin installation, because my condition was not so good in the weekend and I was pretty busy on weekdays.

I scheduled LPIC 202 exam for June 16, about a week from today. I practiced a lot questions in an online study site, an exam guide, and a practice test book, and I've come to be able to answer correctly most of them. However, I haven't really understood some of configurations, so I'm trying to remember sample configurations of each server application that is a subject of the exam.

Every month at work I make a monthly member report in the end of months and take a few questions. From the limitation of space, the Q&A sessions have been held via email. From this month, it will be face-to-face and I'm going to report and answer with speech. To practice Q&A speech, I'm thinking it's a good idea to make weekly review, reflecting on the week, and make a speech from the monthly review, recording it, and perhaps listening repeatedly my report speech. Especially at home I can record my speech with my laptop, so I'm thinking why don't I beginning this approach as soon as possible.

It often happens to me that I waste a lot of time, trying to write something that requires much more ability and knowledge than I have now. Also, I need to prepare a lot to write an article about a certain subject. Meanwhile, I can collect notes for the article and show them, thanks to free blog services. My current style of blogging, I have noticed recently, is sharing notes about my daily life and other subject, rather than share article on a particular subject.

Small amount of waste is much better than never. I keep this in mind when I hesitate to clean my room.

Continuing basic small things every days. Posting something here can be said an instance of this. I may want to do this also in cleaning and other pieces of housework.

Sometimes I feel shot by music, especially when I'm mentally tired. Especially on Sunday, I'm easily to be shot by sound of piano in a worship service, because typically I'm tired with my daily work. This is one of my sensory problems, one of the panics likely to happen in my daily life. It's only recently that some of my panics are caused by sensory problems, in this case from the sound.

I swam for the first time in a month. The motivation for physical exercises declined after the half marathon, but fortunately, it's slowly recovering. My physical and mental state is not so bad either.

Fixed elements on a web page, gadgets or ads, with fixed size are frustrating when I view pages with small viewports, especially when I want to use multiple windows, like viewing while editing. Sometimes, these elements even cover most of the contents of the page, and really hard to view them. When I use fixed elements on my web pages, I may want to consider their usability.