Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

Business shoes with insoles of running shoes. I go to work wearing two pairs of business shoes in turn. One pair was felt too rigid at first, but after I wore a year, it fits very well and make me less tired when I have to walk long or when I have to stand on a train for a long time. The other pair seemed to be softer and to fit better, but after a few month I felt it too soft. It's a little bit tough when I have to stand on a train in a half hour. Today, I inserted insoles of running shoes into too soft this pair of shoes. I felt that the insoles were so thick for the pair that I felt the top of my foot a little bit compressed and sore, but the bottom of my foot was felt much better than the pair without the insoles. The insoles became available after I decided to let go an old pair of running shoes, but I kept the insoles for this pair hoping to improve the feeling of the softer business shoes. It looks like they've improved the feeling greatly. If the compresse...

This Monday was national holiday, so I had enough time to jog longer. I jogged 6.2 kilometers. While jogging, I counted down from 1000 to 0 one by one. I counted down aloud for pace control, because the pace you can chat is a good pace for jogging. Counting down aloud while jogging was unexpectedly tiring, so it's not like enjoying a chat, but it was also surprising that I never gave up in spite of all that. After all, I like counting down approach for fluency training.

This morning I took a walk and took a rest for a while at the station I regularly take train to work. I sat on a bench and looked at a bulletin. There was a poster of a seminar, whose theme is understanding mental disorders and how family and region can support though with mental disorders. The seminar will be held on monthly basis and in several sessions, a person with mental disorder speaks as a lecturer. This poster reminded me that speaking about developmental disorders or the autistic spectrum, as well as mental disorders, from the point of view of an insider is one powerful key to enhance understanding of these disorders. In this respect, as many people in a region look like being interested in what these disorders are like and how they can cope with problems around people with such disorders, so people with such disorders, if they can, look like having chances to building better relationships with regional people by speaking about themselves. This has gave me a good su...

Recently, I've been making a mini blog program with PHP and MySQL. This coming November, I plan to participate in a web creating competition. According to a requisition made public in advance, I'm supposed to make a function of posting a comment. To implement this function, I'm thinking that being familiar with PHP and MySQL is very important as well as making static web pages. I began with a database with a quite simple table to manage posts with 4 columns, whose fields were, entry_id, entry_title, entry_body, entry_date. I struggled with registering posts and displaying posts, and finally I succeeded to display posts. Next, I desired to add a function to attach comments to a post. Although I haven't implemented actual comment function, I made a table for comments. This table required unexpectedly many fields. In addition to the title, the content, and the date of a comment, it should have columns the name (and contact information) of who posts the comment...

It was Saturday today. In the morning I visited a mental clinic. There were so many visitors and I arrived so late that I had to wait about an hour. These days, swimming around 4-5 pm is a regular schedule for Saturday, but today at 3 pm I felt so sleepy and so weary that I hesitated to go to swim, but finally I decided to go. I walked from home 2.8 kilometers to a pool run by public. When I left I was warned that the forecast told that it would rain around 5 pm. It was fine weather then, and I couldn't imagine this very well, but I took a compact umbrella with me anyway. It was kind of sunny, but the edge of cloud seemed really sharp. I had planned to swim 1 kilometer. Today I also had planned how I count how far I swim. Usually I count by how many times I swim a 25-meter lane. This worked pretty well, but sometimes I forget how many and sometimes I count double, which make it difficult to know the pace. Today, however, I decided to count strokes instead, not trying to calc...

I take my iPod with me, wearing like a pendant with a leather holder and a strap, and earphones with a short cord of 60 centimeters. I've continued this style for 4 years a little while after I bought my iPod. It's convenient when I'm on a train, when I walk and when I jog. I changed holders 3 to 4 times, and I don't exactly remember how many times I changed earphones, but probable around 10 times. Today I bought a new pair of earphones because the plug of my old one is about to be broken. It took several minutes to locate the pair of phones I was looking for. I struggled to find so much that I even began to worry that it wouldn't be on sale any more. Finally I found the pair of phones the same type I've been using now, Panasonic natural fit. It was the third time that I chose this type. At first I chose one with cord length more than 1 meter, which was more typical type. After I determined the style in which I take my iPod with, the cord length of 1 mete...

This week ended with a bit of anxiety. My performance, especially my report skill couldn't totally satisfy my boss. My report for the day was just a self contentment, although I was careful enough of the time to hand it in, and the effort to explain the changes. I lacked the clarity in what she finally gets. Next time I want to be more conscious of what my boss will finally get.