Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

This morning I climbed the road to Izumigatake by bike. It's for the first time in 2 years. Last year I didn't ride this road, because it was steep and long uphill, 7 km road with 400 meter elevation, and climbing this road was beyond the load suitable for improving high blood pressure. This year I decided to go, because I had confidence in my stamina, having swum a lot during the summer holiday. It took 41 min 20 seconds to climb, 3 minutes slower than last time. I was disappointed because it was much slower than I have expected. It's probably because the lack of bike riding experience for this year. This year I was away from cycling for mental and weather reason, although I was at least physically in shape, and going swimming every weekend. My stamina wasn't so bad, but I have long forgotten how to ride bike faster.

The other day I read an interesting article about learning English. The article was really about tips of getting a high score an English test, but it gave me an important idea about reading. 300 words per minute is minimum reading speed to enjoy. According to the article, if you feel your reading boring, you are reading slow, and in most cases because of your capability and your choice of what to read. You should choose books with easier words. This article is written about reading, but I'm thinking that it can also be applied for writing. If I don't enjoy writing, I write too slow, probably because of my lack of proficiency, and I'm trying to use too big words.

In order to achieve a good result in abilympics (web page creating) skills contest, getting familiar with Adobe apps seems to be essential. Last year, I tried Creative Cloud for 2 months, and I only acquired basics, rather than engage in real web site creation. This time, I'm thinking of getting much older version of Creative Suite. I think I would able to manage without Dreamweaver. I can probable manage with a text editor. The problem is photo processing. Although I have already have Illustrator, the right app to process photo is Photoshop. Some older version have activation and update problems, but still, I'm thinking that getting "essential functions" to edit image will be a minimum effort and investment to win the race.

Problem with getting air ticket a source of my anxiety. I have to wait until tomorrow, when I might get an answer for the right way to get the tickets.

In this week I want to keep this in my mind; I want to take action as early as possible, and I don't do unnecessary things in the evening and night. This is I want to keep myself in shape, especially having a quality sleep.

Width: 59cm Depth: 29.5cm I'm thinking of replacement of my bookshelf. some shelf boards are broken. Replacement of shelf boards can be a choice (Width 27cm, Depth 55.5cm), but I can't find the right size with a just glance of Internet search. I'm thinking of separate two shelves with much the same width and depth, if I replace the entire shelf. Disposal of my old shelf will be another problem.

It's hot in the day, but at night and in the morning, crickets are stridulating. Daytime is much shorter than June or July. It get dark earlier. Fortunately, it's still light outside at half past 5 p.m., when I return from a pool, after I swim.