2026.9.15

 It was rainy.

September 15 was used to be a national holiday called "Respect-the-Aged Day." But now it moved to the third Monday of September. Therefore, we will have a 5-day long weekend from Saturday this week.

I wished to travel but I have to work on Saturday, and there are some events in Tokyo, therefore I gave up traveling.

At lunch time I had a chance to eat with two colleagues. Our lunch time is flexible, because there are phone calls and other things, and we had to take the lunch time by shift. I seldom have the full one hour. For 15 minutes I watch the morning drama by NHK plus. But since I joined later, we enjoyed talking about traveling abroad for the first 15 minutes or so. Two of them studied in Canada and I studied in the USA, therefore we have some experiences in common. So, it was fun.

I overworked till 20:00 and came home earlier than usual and watched TV dramas after a long time.

2026.9.14

It was fine after 19 days or so. But it started raining again in the night.

If it is fine, I have seen the sun between the buildings when I come out from the subway exit in the morning, but I did not see it today. I felt the earth was moving.

In the evening it is already dark at 6 PM these days. I feel the season is changing. 

There used to be clear 4 seasons in Japan.  But these days we cannot say so. 

I overworked till 21:15 and came home around 23:10.

2026.9.13

 It was a rainy day.

I got up early and wore kimono. Since it was raining, I decided to wear the raincoat and rain shoes and bring a big umbrella.  But to my lucky it did not rain so much when I was in Tokyo.

First, I had lunch with my Facebook friend whom I met about 10 years ago for the first time.  It's been 10 years since we met last. It was unbelievable, but we communicate through messenger, we did not feel the long absence.

After lunch, we went to a tearoom to have dessert, but it was closed. So, we came back to the station. On our way we visited a shrine.  There were many gods enshrined. I felt like visiting there someday again on the 7th or 17th or 27th because it seems they have special charm or something.

After that I went to see the Japanese dance event from 1PM to 5:30PM at Minami Otsuka Hall because one of my friends performed.

After that 6 of us had Italian dinner to celebrate her birthday.

It was a nice day.