2026.7.3

It was fine and cloudy.

I have been busy and overworked till 9:40 PM or so and came home around 11:40 PM.

There was something I wanted to do after finishing the one that due date is today, but unfortunately, I finished it after 9:30, so I could not do at all. Maybe next week.

Usually, I wait for the starting train to sit at the Shinagawa station, but I have not waited for two days and had to stand for more than 1 hour or so in the train on my way home.

It was too late when I came home, and I did not feel like cooking and skipped eating dinner but ate some sweets. This lifestyle is not good.

2026.7.2

It was raining heavily in the morning so that I decided to bring the new umbrella.  But in the afternoon, it stopped raining and I did not have to use it.

Today we had a visitor from France and enjoyed lunch together. 

In the afternoon I went to post office to send certified mails. At that time, it was already cloudy.

In the evening we had a visitor and I have talked with her for an hour or so and got various information to deal with.

I overworked till 8:50 PM and came home around 10:45 PM.

It was another long working day.

2026.7.1

 A new month has started.

July is shichigatsu (7月, 七月) or fuzuki (文月) in Japanese.

Today is the first day of the second half of 2026.

On the first day of the month there are some rituals for me to do such as to post the calendar of good days, to change plants, rice, salt of the inhouse shrine, to change the 5 mounted salt in house, and to visit the nearby shrine as otsuitachi mairi (お朔日参り).

I got up earlier to do these, and I took a later train than usual.

It was fine in the morning but became rain in the evening.

I worked at the office until 11 AM and went to the Haneda Airport to meet participants of the program around 1 PM. I took one of them to Shinagawa station and after that I went back to the Haneda Airport again to meet another participant around 7 PM. It was rather hard.

I had lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Haneda with my colleague.  It was a good chance to talk about us besides work. We had something in common.

I came home around 10:00 PM or so.