Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

I took a walk with my umbrella in my hand. It took 30 minutes. This time it didn't rain and I didn't use the umbrella I took. Every day in this week, I had to start with the worry of rain, because it was rainy throughout the week, the first half much cooler, and the latter half, the heat kind of come back and even more sticky. I'm making it a habit to take a walk after supper, and almost all days of this week, an umbrella was must, although some day I actually put up and used, and some day just taking with me without opening like tonight.

I feel really week, although I have done most of my paperwork for the month. Bad weather these days make me tired even more. If only it would be fine on the next weekend, I would be able to enjoy cycling and beat most of my stress.

Today when I was about to leave the workplace and return home, my energy, especially mental energy had been still running out. I rode train and barely got off the station near home. When I got to the station it was raining so weakly that I thought that I could arrive home without putting up my umbrella, but when I turned the last corner to home I couldn't stand the rain any more and put it up.

I walked 2 kilometers after supper as usual. I was reluctant because it was raining outside. I was thinking "at least 500 meters", taking, putting up my umbrella and started. The rain was lighter than expected, and my body got lighter and lighter as I walked further. It was lucky that I was able to keep the habit of walking or jogging after supper.

Recently I'm always thinking about losing weight after I gained after 3 barbeques. However, did I enjoyed those barbeques? Well, yes, I think so, but haven't I showing the gratitude and pleasure of those opportunities of meeting people? If not, I'm just making myself lonely and grumpy just seeing my weight. Well losing weight is one problem, and having these meeting opportunity is another important thing.

I do not lose weight so easily. I gain weight to 75 kilograms, having 3 barbeques in this August. Perhaps the last time I had barbeque was about 2 or 3 years ago. In the mid of August, I went cycling and swimming every day in weekends. Each time I ride about 20 kilometers and swim 2 kilometers. After supper, I walk or jog 2 kilometers. This is for good night sleep rather than for losing waight. On workdays, I do stairs workout for every bathroom break. Looks like it takes more times to take effect of works seen as number of weight, so I keep on this habit all the time, even after I see myself I lose weight.

Medication for high blood pressure began. In January, I took medical checkup and there was problem with my blood pressure. 6 months later, I received a notice, visit a doctor as soon as possible. :At first I was worried, then I planned my visit on a doctor while taking regular exercises to improve my condition.

Today I opened the package of a portable bike pump I got in May. It was almost 3 months since the product arrived home. My motivation for cycling had been so declined, after the somehow miserable result of Sendai International Half Marathon (although not really miserable in that I finally finished with the time 2 hours 19 minutes).

My LPIC Level 2 certification will be no problem as long as "Linux Professional Institute" concerns. I checked that my status has been updated on my user page under lpi.org. As to updating my status in LPI-Japan and getting "Linuc" Level 2 certification, it's likely I have about week to wait. I sent email to LPI-Japan, attaching evidences including a copy of the score report that I passed the 201 exam on Aug. 18, 2 days passed, I haven't get any response, and my status on LPI-Japan site hasn't been updated either.

These days it's much cooler than the end of July and the beginning of July. There were some days high temperature didn't reach 30C degree. But the last week of August, severe heat is likely to return. According to the forecast, Sendai's high temperature today is 33C degrees, and Yamagata City 36C degrees. Recently I hear much less frequently the word "Dangerous Heat", I heard in the beginning of this summer. I guess the reason is that more dangerous two typhoons are coming to western Japan, with areas huge flood and severe heat had struck.

Jogging after supper is for good night sleep. In this jogging, it's not good to push myself too far, too fast.

The result of LPIC 201 exam I took last Saturday hasn't been viewable on any sites which are supposed to related to LPIC exams. I hope I will get certification viewable on the web or posted before long.

Repeating solving practice questions and reading explanations of questions and your textbook is important. I contributed a exam review post of LPIC 201 to the e-learning site I use frequently. I have contributed exam reviews of CCENT, CCNA, and LPIC Level 1 and 2 exams.

My LPIC 201 exam was successful! I have already passed the 202 exam. However, there is one thing I'm concerned about. When I access the LPIC member page of LPI Japan, I saw a notice, which reads "Now this site is disconnected from LPI Canada headquarter database, and we can't show exam results and status from Aug. 16 here on this website. Sorry for inconvenience." It will be fine if this is just from trouble of systems, and it'll recover soon. I hope this is not because of a problem problem of organization relationships, one between LPI headquarter and LPI Japan, which now has equivalent, but more highly localized Linux certification, "Linuc".

Perhaps I can take a good night sleep tonight, without running air conditioner, just opening the windows of my room. Today it was sunny and still cooler than any time in this month, although heat of days before still remains in my room.

It looks like my first workday after summer holidays went pretty well. All I had to do have been done without a major trouble, although I sometimes fumbled with emails I had to send at work, and had to make a few revisions my blog post at work.

The last day of the holidays. Early in the morning I went on cycling. I road near my home repeatedly. The total distance I road was 19 kilometers. After that, I got so sleepy that I was on my bed until lunch. In the afternoon, I did final check for LPIC 201 exam. I was able to answer practice quizzes, but I'm not sure about some of concepts, commands, and options. I'll supplement what I miss and what I'm not sure as many as possible until the moment of the exam. Then I went on swimming. I swam about 2 kilometers. In the morning it was so sunny that the temperature reached 37C degrees, and in the afternoon thunders approached our area and it rained several times. This was the reason I took bus instead of go swimming by bike.

I'm just home from 2-day trip to Towada, Aomori, with my parents. I was worried a lot before I started, but all went on fine. Tomorrow is the last day of the holidays. I'm planning doing some exercises, because I ate a lot during the trip.

From this Monday to Wednesday, I got 3-day holidays. I hope it'll be a good chance to relieve my tiredness from stress, mainly I make myself from my anxiety.

These days I take a walk after supper almost every day, for my health and good sleep at night. Although summer heat still remains, I see and hear autumn approaching. At 7 p.m. it's already dark and I hear crickets stridulating. In the beginning of July it was still light oustside.

My LPIC Level_2-201 exam is just a week ahead. I'm practicing practice quizzes repeatedly. Now I can answer correctly most of the questions, but I'm thinking that I'm missing some important commands and their options. Also, during practicing, I fail to click properly. I may want to careful enough not to do that in the real test.

I have long been just at the stage where I just write what is in my mind now. I haven't even reached the stage where I communicate propagate messages what I want to tell. Successful bloggers always tell what many people want to know on a subject they are involved in.

A typhoon is approaching. Nearer than expected. It's fortunate that public transportation is running as regularly in the morning. Tonight will probably the problem, when it's going the nearest of our area. I'm not sure if my umbrella works and JR line are still running.

A Typhoon approaching. Slower than expected. It's likely to pass near Sendai tomorrow night. I hope it won't hit seriously our area.

I first go 500m away from home first. This helps keeping habit of walking and jogging after supper. When I start I'm so weary that I barely take tens of steps and be tempted to get back right away, but after I take more than 500 steps anyway, in most cases, I want to take more steps.

Thunderstorms follow after "dangerous heat". I hope it won't bring our area a disastrous flood.

This summer heat is severe to computers too. The sound of the fan of my laptop gets frequently louder than ever before. The sound is especially outstanding when I'm doing other thing and leaping the PC on. Fortunately it hasn't gotten shutdown because of overheat. It may be a good idea to turn my PC sleep mode if I'm away from the PC unless there are background tasks or updates.

Visiting a mental clinic, having my hair cut, having my skis repaired, and swimming. I'm relieved that I have all done the schedule for today, without coming down with heat stroke, under severe summer heat still continuing.

How long and how fast should I jog after supper, in order to have a good night sleep after that. When I jog too long, more than 3 kilometers, I tend to find myself hard to enter sleep. The slower may be the better, but when I start jogging, in order not to give up right away, I want to jog at a certain speed in a short time, and repeat this several times. This help me want to continue to jog further. If, however, I do this too many times, again I have a problem with entering sleep.

This morning Starbucks Short Hot Drip coffee. I ordered Hot again for lunch one more coffee. It's not so bad to have hot drink even in this cruel summer heat.

Dangerous heat returns! Over 35C and almost 100F even around here. Fortunately, I work indoors, in a room with air conditioning. I sweat a lot, as soon as I get outside.