Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

Now the skills competition ended, I was free to go out for early morning bicycling. I went for "autumn color hunting" along Hirose River, running through Sendai from west to east. It was as cold as 5C (41F) this morning. In the western mountain area of Sendai has gotten fully in autumn color in higher elevation areas, but the area near home was yet to fully get in autumn color. Still I enjoyed the scenery from several bridges upstream. The problem was the I wasn't fully prepared for this coldness. When I road downhill, my ears and ankle was chilled. Next time I hope I'll see the scenery in fully autumn color near my area, preparing some equipment which make me warmer.

My performance of the skills competition (creating web pages) wasn't up to satisfaction, so was my result. In the competition, each player was given 3 hours and 4 requirements, plus descriptions of improvements each player made during the time of the competition. I spent too much time on one requirement, for 2.5 hours out of 3 , installing a slide show on my website. I hadn't perfectly mastered the usage of JavaScript setInterval function and jQuery removeClass method, which made me spent twice time as I had expected. I had little time to cope with the rest 3 requirements, so my overall score wasn't up to any award, but when I heard the comment from the judges, my score was a little bit lower than those who won medals, and if I had chosen the right strategy, I might have won a medal. This experience showed the result of my effort and my weakness, which also often appear in my work every day.

Today is the day.  In this afternoon I'm going to go for the competition. Today is the day. In this afternoon I'm going to  go for the competition. There are still a few hours until the competition actually begins. I'm having a cup of Starbucks VIA coffee to energize myself. I have no idea if all my efforts are going to produce something worth an award, but at least I have done well that I finally didn't give up or run away from participating in the competition.  I have no idea if all my efforts are going to produce something worth an award, but at least I have done well that I finally didn't give up or run away from participating in the competition.

The opening ceremony of the skills competition for this morning, and in the afternoon inspection on and setup for the PC I'm going to use tomorrow. I'm relieved that the ceremony and the setup have been done successfully. In the opening ceremony, there were hundreds of, perhaps more than one thousand participants from all over Japan. There are 22 skills they compete in, including cleaning a building, serving as a waiter, and data entry. People with disabilities, with brushing up and competing their vocational skills, will obtain confidence more as working parts of society.

I'm really grateful that many invisible helps that brought me here. I has been poorly in shape in my state of mind from this September. It's already been the end of October. The time I've really worked hard with web page creating, but I'be been fighting with great anxieties from my poor state of mind. It's been a victory to some extent, and this is every reason to go to the coming competition with my face up.

It's time for final check for a skill competition. It will be a four-day trip. I'm checking if all data required will be available and luggage for the trip.

I learned a lot about customize of a Wordpress site, a day before the departure day of a skill compatition. I have to make a DVD-R medium with the data of my work before I start in the next afternoon. I don't bring Wordpress document with me, but a html and css reference book for reference, so I would like to do as much as possible on Wordpress tomorrow morning.