Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

This morning I climbed the road to Izumigatake by bike. It's for the first time in 2 years. Last year I didn't ride this road, because it was steep and long uphill, 7 km road with 400 meter elevation, and climbing this road was beyond the load suitable for improving high blood pressure. This year I decided to go, because I had confidence in my stamina, having swum a lot during the summer holiday. It took 41 min 20 seconds to climb, 3 minutes slower than last time. I was disappointed because it was much slower than I have expected. It's probably because the lack of bike riding experience for this year. This year I was away from cycling for mental and weather reason, although I was at least physically in shape, and going swimming every weekend. My stamina wasn't so bad, but I have long forgotten how to ride bike faster.

The other day I read an interesting article about learning English. The article was really about tips of getting a high score an English test, but it gave me an important idea about reading. 300 words per minute is minimum reading speed to enjoy. According to the article, if you feel your reading boring, you are reading slow, and in most cases because of your capability and your choice of what to read. You should choose books with easier words. This article is written about reading, but I'm thinking that it can also be applied for writing. If I don't enjoy writing, I write too slow, probably because of my lack of proficiency, and I'm trying to use too big words.

In order to achieve a good result in abilympics (web page creating) skills contest, getting familiar with Adobe apps seems to be essential. Last year, I tried Creative Cloud for 2 months, and I only acquired basics, rather than engage in real web site creation. This time, I'm thinking of getting much older version of Creative Suite. I think I would able to manage without Dreamweaver. I can probable manage with a text editor. The problem is photo processing. Although I have already have Illustrator, the right app to process photo is Photoshop. Some older version have activation and update problems, but still, I'm thinking that getting "essential functions" to edit image will be a minimum effort and investment to win the race.

Problem with getting air ticket a source of my anxiety. I have to wait until tomorrow, when I might get an answer for the right way to get the tickets.

In this week I want to keep this in my mind; I want to take action as early as possible, and I don't do unnecessary things in the evening and night. This is I want to keep myself in shape, especially having a quality sleep.

Width: 59cm Depth: 29.5cm I'm thinking of replacement of my bookshelf. some shelf boards are broken. Replacement of shelf boards can be a choice (Width 27cm, Depth 55.5cm), but I can't find the right size with a just glance of Internet search. I'm thinking of separate two shelves with much the same width and depth, if I replace the entire shelf. Disposal of my old shelf will be another problem.

It's hot in the day, but at night and in the morning, crickets are stridulating. Daytime is much shorter than June or July. It get dark earlier. Fortunately, it's still light outside at half past 5 p.m., when I return from a pool, after I swim.

If I have to ask my co-worker to do a workflow less advantageous than ever, I would try to communicate as polite as possible. I really want to avoid causing double-stress for one lesson, because I know how hard on my mind and body a double-stress was. Multiple stress for one issue tends to be exponential rather than proportional, on my vulnerable mind, with autistic spectrum disorder.

It's a good idea to take care of myself, in order not to lose energy to enjoy my hobbies, in spite of the fact that I have a lot of time at my disposal. Getting along in new human relations in the workplace is a new agenda I have to manage.

The last half of August looks like a bit more rainy than I had expected. I wanted to jog on weekday evenings, in addition to swimming on weekends, but weather discourage me from going out for jogging.

I'm good at neither speaking nor listening. This causes me difficulty in communicating with other people. But then, what am I good at? With a little more thought, I'm relatively good at communicating with myself. I'm always making questions and answers about my personality, thought, and things that I'm interested in. I have always been thinking that I'm valueless in society and especially on job market because I desperately lack skills of having interaction with a lot of people. These days, however, fortunately, I have begun to think that sticking to communication with myself can make me valuable, and if I'm able to the minimum skills to market myself with the strengths generated by a lot of self-communication, I will make much more out of myself.

"I hope her new way will be bright and she will be able to help those who are really in need. I feel kind of lonely, and combined with other sudden events making a hole in my mind getting even bigger, but I can manage myself finally." After talking to myself in that way, I just said farewell to her.

The first day I went to work after summer holidays was full of unexpected things. In addition to a lot of data to report, the changes to access information on a few websites annoyed me a lot.

From tomorrow I will go to work again, after long summer holidays. I will have major change in my working environment, not really of workplace, but who to report. I hope I will get used to soon. Especially, I hope I finish work of Wednesday without a major trouble.

Today I swam through 200 meter individual medley for the first time. At first, I intended to swim 50 m butterfly and 50 m backstroke together at a slow pace. Just the moment I had done it, I felt that I would be able to swim breaststroke right away, then after I swam 50 m, I might be able to swim freestyle. In this way, unexpectedly, I swam through 200 m individual medley. Regretfully, I didn't take time for that swim, but I guess my time was a bit slower than 4min30s. For the second time, I took time for my swim and it took 4min17s, and for the third time 4min09s. To achieve my goal, I have to cut 30 seconds, but being able to actually swim full 200 meter individual medley gave me a lot of confidence, and this make me fore into swimming.

After the holidays, work environment has a major change, although what I actually do doesn't really change. However who I report will change. This gives me some anxiety, but I'm thinking myself that it wouldn't make a big deal.

These days, I'm practicing flip turn. Taking my condition into consideration, I swam at a slow pace today. However, the turn is the part one spend their energy the most. By every turn, I get breathless, and when swimming at a slow pace, I recover my breath.

Today I decided to take a break from going for a swim. My muscles were sore a bit and I felt that I was going to catch a cold if I push myself too hard. I'm planning to go swimming from tomorrow again, as long as public transportation is not suspended due to a typhoon.

Managing audio files, especially podcasts, is another problem on the way of PC migration, because I use Walkman rather than iPod as an audio player. The up-to-date official app, Music Center for PC  doesn't support podcasts any more, just as the older version Media Go did. Looks like Media go is phased out for security reason. I installed a third-party sound file manager to download podcast, and transfer to my Walkman. It takes some configuration, and sometimes I operate my Walkman directly as a storage, but I managed to find a way to download podcast and transfer to my audio player anyway.

Day 3 of my summer holidays. On day 1 and 2, I went swimming, and today I had planned to go. Considering my age, it's not a good idea to push myself too hard in on 3 days in a row in swimming, I had decided to keep to a slow pace. When I swam 200 meter freestyle, it took 3m58s. The target time is 3m40s in individual medley. Clearing 3m40s in freestyle may be a feasible goal to pursue first.

How many days do I go to swimming in the 9-day summer holidays? I'm thinking I could go every day during the holidays, but I have to be careful not to push myself too hard.

Friday morning, I registered for Network Specialist Examination, a category of Japan's Information Technology Engineers Examination(ITEE) by Japan Information Technology Engineers Examination Center (JITEC). The exam date will be Sunday, October 20. I hope to certainly pass this time. In this spring, I took the Database Specialist exam of the same organization. At that time, I didn't have so high an expectation to pass, and I didn't prepare not really seriously, but I did much better than I had expected. Passing the exam proves competence in understanding deeply fundamentals of a certain category and capability of following up-to-date topics of requirements in businesses. Apart from the fact that passing the  JITEC/ITEE certificates  level 4 isn't likely to affect my career, I'm thinking that I should pass the exams, because the way of thinking in information technologies seems highly familiar to me, with my innate way of thinking and feeling, findi...

I got 9 days off. Be careful of counting days, so that I can go to work again on the right day.

When I stopped complaining, I became quiet. I'm surprised so much part of my mind is occupied with dissatisfaction. I may want to look for some topics which are fun to share.

I had almost caught a cold, from the gap of temperatures, between outside summer heat and chill of air-conditioned office environment. My condition has gotten better, although I sweat a lot, especially around my right arm.

In spite of severe summer heat these days, the real problem is my body is chilled by relatively strong air cooler on a train or at the office. I'm almost catching cold. Sweating from hot weather may be a little bit uncomfortable, but I feel much healthier than in "comfortably" air-conditioned room which cause my foot cooled overly.

My favorite canned coffee has been gotten rid of the vending machine I often go to and buy from. This is a sad news. The canned coffee was with milk and low sugar, but sugar-substitute and artificial aroma free. It tasted much more coffee than a typical canned coffee with milk and a lot of sugar or sugar substitute. Most of "low sugar" canned coffee are even more sweeter than ones with milk and sugar, because sugar-substitute is in them.

A sketchbook within my reach from the bed. Also a few text books I want to focus to learn. These are part of the environment I want to build for taking up study with much less effort, even if I give into the temptation of playing a video game.

This is the first post from my new desktop PC. The screen and the PC body was larger than I had expected. It wasn't easy to put them onto my untidy (physical/literal) desktop. Finally I put them tidily and now I enjoy how fast my new PS is, although it's rather a budget model.

The heat of this summer is tough both on me and my computer. In Sendai area, high temperature reached 35 degrees on yesterday and today. In the morning, I was thinking that I would perhaps begin to work up with my desktop, but in this heat, more than 30 degrees at 6 p.m. I don't have energy any more to begin the work for tonight. Maybe next morning?

Finally my laptop got back to Windows 10. I have just installed virus security software. So far, all tasks I have worked out is just for my old laptop, until now 2 days after my new desktop arrived. I didn't even open the package. Probable I will work out with new PC from this coming Saturday.