Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

A spring storm coming for tomorrow. It's fortunate that I'll be on a half holiday in the morning, but in the afternoon, probably reaching my workplace will be OK, but return train ride may be the problem due to strong wind.

It's not so cold outside compared to previous 2 weeks when low temperatures were sometimes 5C degrees below zero. There is wet snowfall outside. It's about my behavior. After I had supper I didn't do anything but browsing Internet news. I have no idea what to write.

Monday morning I was OK although I got up as late as 7a.m. I energized myself with a cup of Starbucks drip coffee. I want to cut spending on daily coffee, so I'm planning I count my spending by my original unit in which a canned coffee would be about a point. A canned coffee is 100 to 120 yen, and today's spending is a short cup of Starbucks (280yen, 2pts), one more coffee (108yen, 1pt), and VIA in the morning (about 103yen 1pt) so the points for today is 4. I won't count when I drink instant coffee, which is relatively reasonable. I would like to control points below 10 in a week.

Finally my wireless internet connection recovered its speed. Now connection speed is more than 10Mbps, while before this solution the speed was only less than 100kbps. I haven't added an access point. I changed channels of the access point, having checked the results of WiFi analyzer. I have used auto channel configuration and dual channel, which the access point use channel 3, which is actually busy. Channel 14 was the recommendation, but when I use dual channel I can only use up to 7, each of them is as busy, so I turned dual channel off. The I got additional alternatives up to 13. Channel 14 isn't still available in my current configuration, so I chose channel 13. This change, giving up auto configuration and advantage of dual channel, however, gave me more than 100 times faster wireless internet connection.

After all I went on skiing today. I got better in a night over long sleep. After I was home I trued my old bike wheels instead of going on cycling, because it had gotten much windy in the afternoon. I found that the hubs need overhaul. With its poor movement truing didn't go smoothly.

Last night I felt really cold although nights in several days were as cold or even colder than last. Today tips of my hands, foots, legs, hip, and eyes were sore. My body temperature are 0.3C degree higher than usual. I'm catching a cold, so I'll sleep instead of spend time in front of my PC, checking updates of my favorite sites, taking medicine. I had planned to go on skiing for Saturday, but this time I may be going to suspend, if I don't feel good enough in tomorrow morning.

Last night I recaptured the orchestra sound track of Dragon Quest 4 into my audio PC. I bought this CD when I was in ninth grade, that is, 27 years ago. Last night I suddenly wanted to listen to Dragon Quest BGMs on my audio PC. I had already copied from another device, but the Asound app threw an error, and didn't play back. I ripped the CD with Asunder (these apps sounds similarly and I sometimes confuse). After the audio files got available, I listened to the musics, and I had a few discoverys. For example I noticed that the theme of castles was played only by strings, while in the prelude and normal battle BGMs trumpets played the major part. When I got the CD, I couldn't tell the difference of instruments and I hardly knew the pleasure of symphony. I was just satisfied with the musics of great quality that reminds me the memory of the game (although I got the soundtrack prior to the game, and it was 2 years later than I got the CD before I actually played the Dragon Q...