Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

This morning I went to Disney Artwork exhibition at Miyagi Prefecture Museum. Tomorrow the exhibition will end, so I was almost missing, but finally I enjoyed so much. I was especially interested in rough sketches of its early animations, and got motivated for me my self draw sketches even more.

One work day left for this month September. Submitting the time sheet and the report of counts of information I pick up by category every day are tasks for the end of the month. Avoiding extra work for attendance managements, I want no flaw on my time sheet.

Slow jogging is a good way to meditate and calm down when I'm upset. This is one of the reason I love it. Cycling and swimming have much the same effect, and even better if I have time and place to do them. Jogging is helpful especially after supper, because that period of the day is unsuitable to do those two of my favorite activities.

No time to lose, trying tens of sample code. Time is flying every time I type the codes, try and error. I'm reviewing PHP sample codes in a PHP textbook I found the most helpful when I started

Imagining what pictures to draw when I'm 50 and 60 years old will be important for my little dream of being an illustrator at the age of 70.

Today I went on cycling to Arahama, Watari , to take photos of sea. It was 100 kilometer ride there and back. Weather was blessed until I was home at 3:30 p.m., although weather forecast was saying I took most photos in Millennium Hope Hills in Iwanuma city . I learned a lot about recovery from disasters by 3.11 earthquake and tsunami. As a person living near Sendai, I can't think of the sea without thinking about that disasters even though, living in western inland areas near mountains, they, fortunately, didn't strike directly, and not so related to topics of disasters, recovery from them, and problems along the recovery. So I'm going to refer to the tsunami in some way, when I make web contents of the sea. My concept is likely to become an invitation and an encouragement for learning about many aspects about seas of Miyagi, Sendai is one part of it.

Fixing JavaScript codes is highly addictive. I spent more than 4 hours today, to fix the code of a slide show, about its timer events with the auto play function, adjustment of the width of slide frame and the offsets of slide contents, and re-calculation of its parts sizes when the window is resized.

I spent all the morning seeing doctors, one for blood pressure, and the other for mental health advice. I waited more than an hour, missed a bus, walked to the next station, and it was already noon when I received the medication for anxiety. In the afternoon, I had my hairs cut, shopped a few things, and then swam 2.6 kilometer. I missed one schedule, bring my skis to a tune-up shop.

I'm going to see a doctor for my high blood pressure tomorrow morning. My blood pressure tend to be especially high when I'm struggling for problems with web coding and programming, so it's not good for me to spend time even if I wake up early and have time to do so.

My biggest concern for this week, the monthly member meeting, has been over successfully. I feel my heart getting much lighter, but until then I have already spent most of my energy. After supper I jogged long, but with a really slow pace from the start to the end. I'm about to look up how long I jogged, but I feel so heavy that I haven't been taken up yet. Maybe right after I finish this post. 4.8 kilometers.

Handouts for the meeting tomorrow, I have finished. I've got over one critical point. Next comes speech I'm going to make. It gives me so much tension.

Today is much hotter than the rainy last week, but much cooler than this summer, with "dangerous" severe heat. The problem is my body's adjustment, for air conditioning feeling at one time cold, and another time not cold but I sweat a lot. I hope I won't catch a cold.

The main part of setting up my virtual web server with VirtualBox have been done, including FTP server and client setting. Now I'm typing codes of a PHP micro framework, with a textbook, and with the assistance from DreamWeaver CC. Code suggestions of DreamWeaver are so helpful. This is many professionals seem to like to use this design and development tool suite.

Setting up my second virtual web server on my laptop. I wanted to check if my programs run on PHP 5.x and 7.x, and I didn't want to change the configuration of my laptop. This is the reason I decided to install XAMPP on a Linux (CentOS6.9) virtual machine. In order to enable IP connection between my laptop and the virtual machine, I prepared an additional virtual network card with host only adapter. With this interface it connect to VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter I had set up when setting up my first virtual web server on my laptop. The first network interface was left "NAT" to connect to the Internet in order to download the XAMPP installer. As for installing XAMPP on a Linux machine, I have hard time with find the download path of the installer suitable to 32bit version. In order to enable the access to the virtual server from a web browser, I have to set up SELinux and iptables. Iptables setup I had done in my first server setup, but didn't very well re...

There were several frustrating things recently, but one thing I want to remember is, I'm able to work, and have a place to work, which I had struggled to find for years since I was 30. Also, I'm healthy enough to swim, jog, and ride my bike. Enjoying is much better than worrying.

In a home page I have to prepare for the contest (Abilympics), require a slideshow with more than 10 photos is required. More than a photo must be photos of sea. The slideshow must have auto play function, next button on the right, prev button on the left, and stop button. I'm thinking of what contents I'm going to focus on. I'm not so familiar with the sea, having been grown up and living in inland areas. My experiences with the sea was always extraordinary, and even nearly exotic when I look back on them. Then the concept of my preparation homepage want to focus on extraordinary experiences with the sea on holidays, with articles with photos also appearing to the initial slideshow, describing my experiences and additional information which may be useful to those who want to have similar kind of holidays.

Taking advantage of paid holiday, I went to Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium . The admission fee, 2,100yen for adults, is not cheap (I got 50% discount with a mental disability certificate and actually paid 1,050 yen), but there was many interesting exhibitions, and explanations specialized in the Sanriku sea.

Today is the day of Windows monthly update. As usual it will take more than an hour to update. This time I take supper and then go on jogging, and hope, after those, all update process will end and my laptop will be available again.

Both the schedule and the budgets are tight, for the coming 2 months, considering reference books, my business shoes renewal, and yearly payment for skiing association. Controlling my spending on coffee and lunch is one key.

In the last week of August I felt so tired that I decided to take a holiday on some day in the first half of September. I'm going to take one on this Thursday. When I asked for a paid holiday, my condition has gotten much better. Anyway, taking a day off or two definitely helps me in shape.

Details of specifications of Abilympic, homepage contest has been unveiled. The theme is sea. Competitors have to build a website about sea. The contents can be anything about sea - about an existing sea, and in the homepage there must be a slideshow with more than 10 photos, at least including one a viewer can see a sea. I'm not familiar with the sea, so the theme of the competition is a bit tough for me, but fortunately, I have some photos of sea I took in a train trip along Uetsu line and Sanriku sea.

My swimming pace: when I swim long, I swim 25 meter. in 35-45 seconds. If I swim with a pace of 37.5 seconds for 25 meters continuously, it follows that I swim 2,000 meters in 50 minutes. I have 2 hours for one session, including changing clothes, warming up and rests, at a pool I usually go. Then the maximum time I have for actually swimming is 1 hour and 30 minutes. 3,000 meters for a session, in an hour and a quarter is a milestone fro me.

No task between two is a tip for continuing walking after supper. I'm sometimes discouraged from starting for walking because a few task are left, writing an entry for a blog, checking emails, changing clothes and so on. Getting rid of these tasks and having been prepared for walking when I have supper helps me get motivated the most.

Walking habit after supper, writing today's entry, measuring my blood pressure ...... I'm so worried about what to do first that I waste 30 minutes beginning none of the above.

I saw blue sky for the first time in 10 days. It was after a typhoon passed my area. From the week before last, it was rainy and cloudy, and I seldom saw the sky in the period. This was fine day I had been looking for then. However there is one thing I was disappointed by. When I returned home after work it had already been dark outside. In August it was still light when I return home from work.

Today's mistake in an additional setting up on my test server. I made a new account for new test (study) site, and created a folder for web documents . Then I logged in as the user I had created, moved to the folder, and created an index page, with a command "touch index.html". Then "Permission Denied". I checked the mode of the directory with "ls -l". The directory was writable. I spent 30 minutes in vain attempts. Then I noticed that the owner of the directory I had made was "root", because it had been made by "root". I logged in with su, chown, and changed the ownership to the intended user. There are many stumbling blocks when setting up a test server.

Before I begin lessons of Dreamweaver, I set up a test server, a virtual machine of my PC. Setting up appropriate virtual NICs, choosing an appropriate install option and additional application packages, setting up server apps and firewalls, and appropriate ftp settings communicating between host OS and guest OS through virtual network connection. It took time especially with following three. 1. Settings of iptables and SELinux 2. Getting and setting up ftp server, and confirming connection from host OS to guest OS. 3. Setting an appropriate permission on the public html folder.

In the morning I was so tired that I even felt empty. I went to a local church, and I stood feeling empty for a few minutes before every action I took. I didn't know where to sit when members have lunch. Some church member helped me. I was feeling so down that even asking for a help was a burden to somebody else, and I was almost incapable of doing then. Even though the energy for swimming was left for me. Swimming may be a tough exercise, but being free from gravity gave relief to some extent.

I started subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. I plan to subscribe for 2 months. I would like to learn how to use Dreamweaver especially. I practice along a lesson book I got yesterday. I have to make a presentation website before Abilympics, vocational skill contest, and this time I want to get used to the most famous web authoring tool.