Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

As planned, I went went to Shiroishi Riverside, famous for Hitome Senbonzakura, for its overwhelming number of cherry trees. As expected, cherry flowers there were yet to bloom. Still, it was beautiful riverside view with great weather, and color of the trees even though it would be a week before their flowers bloom.  I dropped by Kamafusa Dam on the way home. There were cherry trees also there, but they were expected to bloom even later, for its colder climate.

First bloom of cherry blossoms for 2018 has been reported today. I saw a few blooming on some cherry trees in the park in front of the office building my workplace is in. I plan to visit Shiroishi Riverside by bike for tomorrow, famous for Hitome Senbonzakura , literally great view 1,000 cherry trees at a glance, although it may be a bit too first for its trees to bloom.

How many letters do I write a day, especially for blog? I'm thinking of this, because I have many chances to type my ideas on mails and blog posts for my workplace. Also, sometimes I make the transcript for a speech. How much and how fast I can write depend on my typing (or writing) speed and the speed of composition, putting my ideas int words. I'm relatively fast in typing. Today I measured my typing speed and found that I can type more than 350 times a minutes (to type given Japanese words ...... it would be a little slower for me to type given English words.) In terms of putting my thought into words, I'm relatively slow. I especially have hard time to make both ends meet in my composition, even though I managed to take up with first words relatively fast. Especially when I'm tired it takes a lot of time to come up with idea of what to write, what subject to take up. Of course the quality of the writing, for example how informative, usable, and inspiring it is,...

I sometimes use vending machine to keep my motivation for jogging. I jog to a vending machine one kilometer or two away from home, and get my favorite canned coffee. The other day, one vending machine changed its lineup and there was a product I like very much, but it was sold out. I'm going to jog to check the machine, after supper, and check if it is available, and getting one if possible in a few day.

Taking advantage of a paid holiday, today, I made a monthly visit of mental clinic. On the way back I walked, taking photos of spring flowers. It was about 10 kilometers, and I felt a little bit heavy. Probably, tiredness from skiing on Saturday was still remaining.

Recent web designs typically assume full screen. This is probably from the demands from treat a website more like televisions or posters than references or notebooks. I prefer multiple windows, with narrower browser window, with text editor app or another window for reference, sometimes other pages. Even now I suffer the design "assuming full screen", editing this post. I'm editing this post on a window with width of about 900 pixels. I can see entire text box for the body of the post, but I can't see and reach all functions, like editing post schedule unless I scroll to the right or make the edit view full screen. If I think of the layout of a web page or site, I set higher priority flexibility of its layout, especially when the purpose is informational or about giving end users as many functions as possible. I think of full screen if I'm asked to show a site like a movie or television, although I myself prefer, surprising in spite of myself, letters and word...

Communication is my Achilles' heel, especially talking to a new person from me. The experience of being refused by the rest of class many years ago gave me idea that it's no use to talking to anyone else. It was only a few things of the past, only events of my childhood, but they have great influence on my seclusive and reticent personality so far. If I change these characteristic, new horizon will probably open to me, but it takes a lot of energy, and I tend to draw back to my comfort zone, the limited numbers of people I can barely talk to, and the limited topics I'm really interested to.