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Stressful elementary school days and comfort of railway running by

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When I was at elementary school, the classroom and interaction with my classmates and schoolmates was usually pain for me. As I didn't want to repeat pain of troubles and failures, I tried to be a good boy from the beginning of every school day. I always came up with miserable result, finding myself crying from being rebuked by a teacher or bumping into trouble with other boys at school. In most case, I couldn't remember what was wrong. More than 100 times, some classmates said that the class didn't need me. One of my limited comforts at school was viewing railroad cars at the southeast corner of the ground of the school. The Tohoku line was running beside the school. Although express trains didn't run any more, after Shinkansen, running further east of our city, was in operation, square, massive, and powerful figure of trains encouraged me a lot. I enjoyed to speak details of railroad cars running then and ones of the past, having known by picture books in the second l...

The first hero's name was """" (four double quotes), player MaittakB with shypox, age 11 - My hero's name in computer role playing game was a combination of meaningless symbols like "****"

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 It was when I was an elementary student that the first three episodes of Dragon Quest series, one of the most popular computer games in Japan. This series also made the genre of computer role playing popular, and many follower games were on market. When I play Dragon Quest or other roll playing game, I had hard time with decide the name of the hero and other characters. Many computer role playing game prompt us to enter the name of player characters, and in some game we are advised to enter the player's own name for the hero, because players play the role of the hero. I didn't want to enter my name, because before I play myself Dragon Quest, I saw a few classmates playing the game and the hero of them died so often. I didn't want to see the character with my name were killed so often. Just a few days after I began this blog in September 2009, I didn't totally face up with the fact, and made that post.: From my past post The first day I played my favorite RPG "Drag...

My episodes with Dragon Quest series when I was at elementary school

Dragon Quest - one of the most famous computer roll playing in Japan. I refer to this explicitly probably for the first time here. I implicitly told an episodes or two when I first start blogging. They were one of those stuffs the least I want to remember! Well, like other classmate boys, I was a fan of Dragon Quest when I was elementary school. The first episode was published in 1985, when I was 11 years old. I didn't own the first two episode, Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest II, I borrowed them from my friends.

According to bullies in my childhood, I was likely to be speaking different "Japanese" than they speak - This is one of how I got despair of speaking, maybe any language

 Write, write and write. Post, post, and post. And I'm going to win [_blank_]. I want to make this the tactics for this month. I will see the strategy for the next after I see the result. To explain more seriously, I'm not sure what I really want to write about and I'm really good at, until I finish writing certain amount, say 100 entries or 20,000 words. I'm also looking forward to unexpected writing even when I feel like incapable of writing anything. Even now, I'm being surprised that I'm writing something at least partially, if not entirely, making sense, because I was so exhausted that I was thinking I can't write anything that make sense just before I began to write this. I know, however, I'm not able to tell what I really mean to tell. When I was at elementary school and junior high school, classmates often implied me that they don't understand at all what I was saying, by saying to me, "Speak Japanese". That literally means that ...

My daily things in August, 2020 - medication and exercise

I take a pill or two every. I get medication for high blood pressure. I also take the pill to mitigate anxiety. Last month I was away from exercise, because almost all days were daily. It wasn't good condition at all to go cycling, and it discouraged me from going out for jogging. Once or twice a week, I went out for a walk with my umbrella up. Each time the distance I walked was only about a kilometer whereas when the weather is fine, I jog three times a week, for each time 2 to 4 kilometers. In August the weather got much better, so I make it a rule to go out for swimming for each weekend, and go out for either cycling or jogging early in the morning as long as possible. In July, I didn't gain weight than I had expected for lack of exercises, but interestingly I gain one or two kilograms after I regularly do exercises.

Before I landed a job, I was too dependent in even finding my strength - especially in 2008 when I was under job training.

You may want to remember and express your strength briefly, if you are focusing too much on your week point to remember your strong point. What is my strong point? I'm interested in the root knowledge of information technologies, and I haven't given back blogging in foreign language, since I began ten years ago. In 2008 I was under job training for people with disabilities. Co-trainees who had mental illness but not on the autism spectrum are more likely to find a job early, but ones who were on the spectrum like me have a hard time with finding a job. I myself tried hard to raise the performance, speed and accuracy of data entry work outsourced to the training office I go to. I however didn't take any action by myself to find what work and what office are more likely to match my personality, my skills I've already acquired, and my interest. I totally depended on counselors, job trainers, and helpers there to find my strength and the place which I work at and help with ...

I'm taking plunge to get Raspberry Pi 4, for test server purpose

I ordered Raspberry Pi 4 starter kit taking advantage of a time sale. It cost a bit more than 10,000 yen. Looks like power supply, micro SD storage, OS installers, HDMI cable are all included. Since 3 month ago, I've wanted to get a Linux host at hand, to test SSH connection and port forwarding, virtualization like docker, and test web server with CMS like WordPress. This recent version seems to be powerful enough to serve as a desktop, but my first priority is testing a Linux server at a local network.

I realized again, Remembering garbage collection day is the first step to keep my room tidy

Empty bottles related to coffees are easy to scatter. I realized again that remembering the date of garbage collection of every kind is important to keep my room tidy. This morning I washed two empty bottles of instant coffee and two empty cans of canned coffees. Instant coffee is easy to deteriorate through rainy season and long time after I opened, so it was not good idea to buy a big package of refill because it looks cheap for its amount. Considering keeping your space clean and neat is the first step of housework, remembering the day of garbage collection of your area perhaps is the very first step of it. Turning back to my room, it's far from neat and tidy. Although I disposed a lot of waste, still I barely see the floor of my room, which is scattered with books, cloths, and sheets of scribbles. I'm too attached to some of them to dispose of as wastes, because most of them are things related to my memories of when I was university student, and when I was regarded as a pro...

I know few real person, but looks like it isn't really a problem to find who I can talk to help

These days, thanks to a lot of blog posts that suggest how to grow and get success from a blog. Helping someone, and as many people as possible with its contents are the key for success. A good blog also always thinks of and talks to target viewers. Since I began this blog 11 years ago, it's a great disadvantage that I know few real people who speak English (in addition I know not so many people total, even who speak Japanese, my native language). An enlightening idea taught me that I was wrong. I was told by that idea, "You can and may want to help you in the past, who went through great failures or troubles. You only have to tell the lesson you learned from those miserable experiences." According to that concept, the effort I want to make is figure out and describe my past mistakes, troubles and lessons I learned from those. This is much more realistic than trying to know more people, which would be much less likely successful.

I posted even when I had nothing to write - How has this helped me?

Since November, 2013 until November, 2019, I have posted here almost every day. The policy, the priority was posting every day. I didn't pay much attention to the quality of each post. Most of the posts were of low quality. They were even lower than those of diaries of elementary school kid. Well, I even hesitated and shied away from writing "I'm tired from work and train.". This stance hasn't helped me grow this blog. Then should I consider quality of posts more? I would answer no. Although posting every day didn't help this blog grow, but at least I had acquired the habit to write something even when I had no idea before I quit blogging last year. When I was blogging every day, my proficiency was too low to care about what to write and quality of my writings. I'm learning that the quality of blog posts is about how they help people who want and search information. Having missed this perspective then, it was too early to think about quality of posts. I ha...

Sendai has been home since 2005, but it wasn't the place I grew up

In April, 2005 I came and live this home in Sendai with my parents from Sapporo. Although it was current home of my parents, it wasn't the region that I was brought up. When I studied at a university in Sapporo, they moved there from my hometown. When I myself was moved there in Sendai, I had just finished my master's degree, but I was too shy to say anything at a job interview. In fact I even didn't reach one. At job fairs, I was frozen and shutdown, extremely scared of job hunting.

[1] When Do I Taking Blogging Here Seriously First?

At first, when I opened this blog in 2009, I didn't blogging so seriously, in the sense that I tell someone else about myself. My priority then was, leaving a few smallest footsteps by me on the Web. Even posting those humble posts in the beginning of my blog , it took me unbelievably great courage to do so. I was, and is so shy. [From the end of 2013 I kept up my mind that I post a blog entry at least once a day. This habit has continued until now.] At the mid of 2013, I made up my mind to post something on this blog, however trivial and meaningless it may be. In the meantime, I got rather inactive on my Japanese blog, because motivating blog friends reached next stage of their lives and graduated from blogging. [This happens in 2019] Thanks valuable encounters from Web search, to improve blog, I'm learning to be more candid. On the other hand, I had to say goodbye to a blog service I was familiar with, Yahoo! Japan blog. There I met a lot of blog friends. I liked its s...

I continue to learn a language, even if there's no one to talk to. Talking to myself has already almost satisfying me | My motivation has been turned into "Understanding and Helping"

With my personality, communication for itself easily wear me out. Just for communication is hard to be my motivation, unlike people who really like and enjoy and seek any kind of communication as often as possible. It goes against my personality. Instead I prefer to probe many field of knowledge, in some field deeper, and in some feel not so deep but wide. I like to know and understand, even if there are no one to tell. In this way, I reached this conclusion. I will continue to learn foreign languages, even if I have never a chance and no one to talk to. This is what I thought in October, 2019. I was busy, and to be honest stressed out while preparing for Abilympics. At that time, I was extremely easily to get tired out after I meet someone else. I was seeking opportunities to talk with adults on the autism spectrum, but kind of found it disappointing, because what I was and am interested in, career in the computer industry but I couldn't find anyone who was interested in that fi...

The more I write, The more I remember

Off the blog, it seems that I remember nothing to post as a blog entry. In most cases, this is a lie. I'm able to remember and I'm able to post at least something on a blog. The other day, I wanted to post something on my blog, but I couldn't because I didn't come up with any idea. Even today, at first all I was able to remember was how hot today was. Then I recalled what I studied and looked up today. Finally I recalled a few episodes of my past. Ideas in my mind are encapsulated and sealed hard in my mind, and they won't melt to get ready for me to communicate until I utter or scribble my first few words, which is typically meaningless. I'm always being tricked by this whimsical nature of my memory, and sometimes, I feel as if I lost my memory, and almost behave in that way, and someone who talks with me see me as incapable of speak, think and remember until my memory gets ready for me to communicate.

What I remember after work for the day

Over 35 degrees high last week. The next Monday, today, a bit lower, a bit above 30 degrees, and it's hot enough. I was working with a PC and sweated a lot. I adjusted the air conditioner of the room to 27 degrees, and the thermometer inside indicated 28 to 29 degrees. I looked up and read a few know-hows of success bloggers. First, never quit writing. Second write for readers. Third, know your strength. Looking back on myself, this is all what I'm able to write and what I'm able to communicate. I practiced Microsoft Office VBA, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, after enabling "Developer" tab.  I also looked up information about WordPress. 7 years ago I tried to run a WordPress blog but after posting a few entries, I quit. After that, I continued pay for the VPS hosting the blog was installed on for 2 years. I'm thinking of restarting a WordPress site fore self enlightenment.

The nightmare right after I entered elementary school

The first several months after I entered elementary school was a nightmare. Every day at school I was rebuked from the teachers or classmates and cried hard. Even if I try to be good boy, at least a few hour after I find myself in trouble, totally different from the image I would behave like too good a boy. In that way, my self-image of behavior, human-relationship, and relationship was the worst, even though I come up with good marks in exams. Even though I got full marks in exams, I didn't think that getting high mark in exams gives me high values. As adults and classmates then told me, without behaving in group activity I wouldn't be valuable however excellently I made it in exams. In that way there wasn't no factor with which I could regard myself as of some value. Being alone in elementary school for a few months or years, I enjoyed a few things. I especially enjoyed viewing picture books of railroad trains and automobiles. The elementary school I was in located by rai...

Even though it means nothing to you all, I'm thinking of breath regularly here again

I'm back to work after 6 days off. I spent home almost all the time, but went swimming four times, during those days. After this August came, I've almost lost the passion to learn more about information technologies. Also I lost touch of almost all people who helped a lot when I was in mental distress. After COVID-19 shock, my apathy had gotten even more stronger. Since a year or two ago, I have been thinking that being assertive about my disability won't make anyone happy. My behavior and my way of thinking is far from those anyone else feel comfortable, and especially quite different from the personality of those who gave me comfort when I was talking with them. Whenever I utter what I was really perceiving then, how I was exhausted after meeting with different people, how lonely I felt when I was studying about information technologies and network technology because no one considered me as a teammate of their engineer team while they are learning almost the same things I...

The last question I want to hear in an exam "What would you say if you were in his place?"

I had a difficulty to answer a question like "What would you say if you were the man in the picture." This made the question and answer section of an English test particularly hard time. Such a question remained as a trauma in my mind even though I finally passed through the interview test after almost 10 time attempts. First I had a difficulty of imaging myself as someone else or in someone else's place, even though I was able to understand that they are structures to express an imagination typically against the fact. Second, I was usually too quiet or too panicky to say something that someone else understand as speech in a particular language, when I met a particular situation. Also, I didn't really understand when a character in a story say a comment about a particular situation, some people around me are also likely to say in that way. 

The New Post Button Back

"New Post" button came back to the left-top of my Blogger dashboard. Thank you Blogger for your improvement. Now I don't have to worry that I can't find anywhere in my dashboard.