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Quick and easy Goya Champloo

Quick and easy Goya Champloo

I have some plants in my small balcony every year. Some of those are our standards, for example, Okawakame vine, basil, and Goya vine.

Goya vine is famous as a vegetable of Okinawa. It have bitterness but a lot of nutrients, and give power to us in summer. And its vine grow large leaves, which covers windows from strong sun ray, too…well, actually we didn’t…

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Gary Gygax and the Birth of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS by Michael Witwer

Gary Gygax and the Birth of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS by Michael Witwer

Actually, I’m a game player of TRPG since I was in junior highschool, however, now I reached at over fourty years old, then friends who played with me, are grown, have family, or went far for business. Then I never played for years.

My wife also played with me and love the games. So we still talked about it, and want to play.…

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A handmade alcohol stove for small fire stand

A handmade alcohol stove for small fire stand

As you may know, I posted about an alcohol stove I made. After that, I made some stoves just for fun. I sometimes took it for riding bicycle and made hot water to eat instant noodle. That was much fun.

Though I never did such things for over a year due to hard working, wanted to make another one, which suits my small fire stand that I got as a…

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Sweet orange peel from Japanese one

Sweet orange peel from Japanese one

This year, I happened to cook peel with sugar rather than usual.

For example, big Chinese citron, we call Ban-Pei-Yu turned into something like jelly because it’s actually a kind of pomelo and has fat inside peal. After that, I made orange peel from Japanese orange, Amanatsu.

In May, I found another Japanese orange, Ponkan, on a table.…

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Watching eclipse without looking directly

Watching eclipse without looking directly

Last week, I heard and read an topic many times; eclipse would come on last weekend!

Actually I and wife like this kind of astronomic events. We wanted to see the eclipse, however, such events often happen in bad weather, or we cannot see correctly due to location where we live. So we heard without much big expectations.

But at this time, weather reports told Sunday would be fine. And it…

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Nishi Aburayama Chuo Park

Nishi Aburayama Chuo Park

One day, I found my wife got nervous in the evening, and expected what made her…so I asked her to go out for refreshing a while.

She accepted, then gave a question “Where can we go?” well, well, we still did want to go into crowd due to the virus, but it was closer to night for enjoying nature, river, or seaside.

While we were searching on…

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Driving to an airport with packed meals

Driving to an airport with packed meals

Last month, we hold a party to celebrate my father’s birthday, mother prepared many dishes in her house and we had fun time. At the end of the party, when we said good-bye and would leave, mother asked us to take some of leftovers.

Of course we accepted that. She put meals into a big pack and gave us.

The next day, my wife said to me “Taking out that meals, we will drive and have dinner in car?…

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Making Pho from rice papers

Making Pho from rice papers

I have a bunch of rice papers in my food stock for long time. Actually that’s a memory of previous company I belonged. A Vietnamese coworker showed me foods uses rice paper.

Then I like that and thought of trying by myself, however, did not find any good cooking with those. Now it will be wasted after months.

Staying home gave me a chance to think that again. So I tried to make a famous…

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Little small workplace with outdoor furniture

Little small workplace with outdoor furniture

A movement for over two months, “Stay home” have ended in Japan, and we are trying new days with the virus.

Actually, re-infection caused at another city in same prefecture. So we cannot forget and have to be aware of behavior outside. As possible, we need to work at home.

I’m a freelancer of IT project management, and used to join into online things, for example, project management tools…

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Stanley Classic Bottle arrived

Stanley Classic Bottle arrived

Due to COVIC-19 disaster, we have been lost opportunities to take airplane for months. Now our government lifted the state of emergency, however, i guess everybody avoid it as possible, for weeks at least.

By the way, I have some mileage on an airplane company. The company announced that they expanded expiration of mileage considering the virus, then I felt safe to leave those. But it was about…

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Making cloth mask using handkerchief

Making cloth mask using handkerchief

I got a bit feeling tired of the virus for over months. It looked like decreasing, however, we’d better watch everyday and be careful to prevent re-inflation, for more months, at least.

Anyway, I and wife have stayed home long. When we went out for shopping once in a week, some of things still have been sold out, for example, bottle of sanitizer or alcohol to wash hands, and disposable mask!

For…

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Going to Blood Donation Center in the City

Going to Blood Donation Center in the City

When COVIC-19 disaster just began in Japan, I saw a news that amount of blood donation is decreasing day by day due to closure of schools and some effects from the virus.

I found I never donated my blood and never paid attention on such thing as usual. Then something stimulated me to decide I have to go. Especially, after I knew the limitations to donate blood, for example, not taking any…

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Kiyokawa Golden's takeout have begun

Kiyokawa Golden’s takeout have begun

Reading Facebook’s timeline, I saw some posts from friends’ restaurants, that they started takeout foods to response the matters by new Corona virus.

I have been worried about them, and afraid that they will close shops, so the news made me glad. One of them, I wrote once before, “Kiyokawa Golden” also began their takeouts.

When I met my parents, I told that, they quickly replied “Can you order…

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Making Banh Xeo at home

Well, the request of staying home have been kept until the next month at least. Comparing to other countries, our government did not force us, but we stayed at home as possible.

Instead of getting stress by the situation, we should focus on other things in house, for example, cleaning parts of house day by day, makeover for more comfortable spaces. We made new working space specified for…

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The next VPN, WireGuard looks good to me

Now in worldwide disaster of COVID-19. It’s spreading even in Japan. Still Japan have endured explosive infection, however, people suffered are increasing day by day, in my city, too. 

Thus, our government requested that people had better to stay in home, and will issue emergency  announcement soon. In the response of it, many companies ordered employees to work in home.

I’m a solo proprietor…

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Long time journy: working for twelve months

Well, well, well, I completely left the blog for months, due to hard work. I have come back, now.

Frankly speaking, I got surprised that a bunch of months flew as if water run over from fallen cup. Time flies like arrow, literally.

Last year, I was offered works from few companies at same time. All of those, my friends belonged to. One of them is in Tokyo, others are in my prefecture. The…

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Route-Inn Grantia Dazafu: working camp by myself

Route-Inn Grantia Dazafu: working camp by myself

Last year, I registered a co-working space, Yoka Lab. I love it and used to be there.

But recently I work for multiple projects, then I had no time to move there…unfortunately that payment had been wasted, so I left a membership of monthly one.

Though still I can use the co-working space for hours or one day, it’s expensive and cannot get concentrated without any locker. Occasionally I needed…