2025.6.21

It was fine and hot.

Today is summer solstice when the daytime is the longest in a year.

I arrived at Expo West Gate around 8:08AM and waited for the Gate Entrance time of 10 AM. It took two hours to enter.

Today I could not get any reservation but enjoyed visiting pavilions and event show.

My Expo 2005 colleagues and I got together and enjoyed talking and visiting Australian Pavilion where one of them was working.

We had dinner.

It was fun to see them after 20 years.

After saying good night, I came to the hotel in Kyoto.

2025.6.20

It was fine and hot. Extremely hotdays compared to the average years.

After work I had quick supper and took a bath.

I did homework and submitted.

Around 21:40 I left home and walked to the station and took a train for Yokohama.

Meeting spot is different as usual.

Now I go to Osaka to visit EXPO for the 4th times. Tomorrow I may see some colleagues from EXPO 2005. It's been 20 years! Unbelievable!

To my surprise my seat was booked double.

2025.6.19

It was fine and hot.

I stayed and worked at home.

From today present campaign of 170th ebook started.

I asked the carrry case dalivery.  There was the return delivery too. So it was yen3620.

I got a reply from crypt currency support, and knew why the data was not appeared.

2025.6.18

It was fine and hot.

It is ichiryu manbaibi when one grain becomes 10000 times.

I tried crypt currency transaction.

There is something I do not know and I am asking.

I saw the post that my friend would go on around the world trip by first class by mileage. I feel like doing so too. 

I saw the other post that my friend harvested biwa. I feel like trying that too.

Life is too short to live alone. I hope to pickup what I really want to do and do so as much as possible.

2025.6.17

It was fine and hot.

I published the 170th ebook about the bus tour to Yamanashi last Saturday.

In the afternoon I went to help the reception of the annual international program. 

Last year it was heavily raining, but today it was very hot like summer.

I harvested 10 plums and freezed. them. Those I harvested last time became riped, and I put them in salt.

I prepared for this weekend.

I received the postcard I sent from the 5th station of Mt.Fuji.

2025.6.16

It was fine and hot.

I saw the beautiful sunset.

I distributed my souvenir from Yamanashi.

To my glad I received sweets and souvenir from three colleagues.

I watched some TV programs.

I made 170th ebook.

2025.6.15

It was cloudy and fine.

I went to the nearby shrine as a ritual of the 15th of the month.

There was a mayoral election.

After that I went to Yokosuka Iris Garden for the first time.

And I went to Yokosuka Museum of Art after a long time.

I visited Kamoi Hachiman jinja shrine.

I went grocery shopping.

There were three zoom sessions.

2025.6.14

It was cloudy and rainy.

I got up later than I was supposed to. So I changf the route and headed for Shinjuku and ran to the parking lot. 

Departure was 7:30 and I got on the bus at 7:29.

I went to Yamanashi by bus tour. First destination was Fujisan World Heritage Center, Yamanashi. 

Next was 5th station of Mt.Fuji. I visited the shrine and post office.

Third destination was Chateau Katsunuma.

Fourth destination was cherry picking which was the main purpose of my choice of this tour.

We came back to Shinjuku around 18:30 and I headed for Ueno to visit the Special Exhibition Tsutaya Juzaburo: Creative Visionary of Edo.

I had dinner at a Korean restaurant with my friend.

It was a nice day.

2025.6.13

It was fine and warm.

Today our colleague of the different section brought his first new born baby at office. He is less than two months old. Very small and so cute.

Tonight I watched some TV programs. One was about 30 dancing songs of top 10 at each Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa era. The No.1 dancing song of Showa was YMCA by Hideki Saijo who died several years ago. His son appeared and sang the song with all the guests and audience.

The other program dealt with Imagine by John Lennon.

I published the ebook ”Art Is Unlimited” several years ago. Music is also unlimited.

Cooking is also unlimited. Stories are unlimited. Possibilities are unlimited.

2025.6.12

It was cloudy but I saw the beautiful sunset.

I stayed and worked at home.

After work I harvested butterburs and plums.

At night I attended two online events.

One was zoom meeting and the other is webinar.

 

Besides these I watched some informative TV programs.

2025.6.11

It was a rainy day.

I took a day off to attend a seminar in Ikebukuro.

I walked to the station so that I can drink after the seminar.

Seminar was interesting as if I went to see the Rakugo performance.

After the seminar we went to Izakaya where you can taste local sake around Japan.

2025.6.10

It was a rainy day.

They say rainy season has set in in Kanto area. 

June10 is anniversary of time.

When I got out, I saw beautiful sunlight and clouds, so I decided to stop and take some pictures at Tateishi.

After that I went grocery shopping.

I revised the 169th ebook. That is one of the good things of making ebooks.

2025.6.9

It was a rainy day.

I took an hour off to go to the Pension Office to submit the documents.

I arrived earlier and had to pay yen 1320 for parking.

After comimng home I made supper.

I attended a webinar at night.

I got a call from acquaintance whom I met long time ago at some seminars.

2025.6.8

It was rainy at first, but became cloudy.

My 169th ebook is released.

Today was the last day of 168th ebook promotion campaign.

I went to Sugita to have my hair cut and perm.

After that I went to a kimono shop to buy many things because the shop will be completely closed this month and they are having closing sales of 90% off, 70% off, and 50% off. 

And I went to Hinodecho to attend a monthly seminar.

After the seminar I visited Iseyamakotai jingu shrine and Naritasan Yokohama branch temple as usual.

Since today is Taian I saw Omiya mairi family and wedding couple.

After coming back I went grocery shopping.

There were three webinars at night.

2025.6.7

It was fine.

I stayed at home all day long.

I cleared the kmono.

I watched some recorded programs and attended some zoom gathering, looked for the restaurant for luncheon and booked.

I published the 169th ebook.

2025.6.6

It was fine and rather warm.

Recently I applied for the bus tour going to Yamanashi for picking cherries.

Today I got a call and email saying that the tour was cancelled because it did not meet the minimum number of participants. 

Since I was very looking forward to the tour I was disappointed.

There were two options to take. One is to change the date. The other is to go to other tour on the same day.

I could not take neither way unfortunately.

There are still other tours by other companies but far much expensive.

I do not know which way to take, to give up going or to pay more.

2025.6.5.

It was fine.

I stayed and worked at home.

At lunch time I picked up plums for the second time.

This time I decided to make plum syrup.

Compared to the last time, some were smaller. I made one by rock sugar, the other by honey and I also tried with soy sauce and vinegar.

Today is the day of snake and ichiryumanbaibi, which is a good day for money related things. So I paid the travel fee and transferred crypt currency.

At night I had a zoom meetiing with IWPG members.

2025.6.4

It was fine.

I saw the beautiful sun in the morning and sunset in the evening.

To my glad my 168th ebook is No.1 in Japan.

In the afternoon I listened to online meeting at work for the first time. I did not know it was OK for us to attend this regular meeting. 

At night I attended a zoom meeting.

2025.6.3

It was a cold rainy day.

To my glad my 168th e-book became No.1 in Japan.  

From today present campaign started.

I hope many people will enjoy.

Mr. Baseball, Shigeo Nagashima died of pneumonia at the age of 89. RIP.

Today I applied for the ticket. There were 5 people. To my lucky I got the one. 

I booked a tour to Yamanashi for cherry picking.

2025.6.2

It was rainy in the morning but became fine in the afternoon.

Last Friday it rained heavily so that we postponed clearing the wasted paper today.

Today is the day of Tiger when is a good time to spend money. So I paid car tax and seminar fee and went shopping too.

There were many direct mails for stock holders general meetings.

At night there was a zoom meeting. It used to be training to use the products, but the organizer decided to change the purpose.

2025.6.1

A new month has started.

June is rokugatsu (6月、六月) or minazuki (水無月) in Japanese.

It was fine and rain.

There are some rituals I do on the first day of the month; to change plants, rice, salt of in-house shrine, change mounted salt, and visit nearby shrine.

I posted the calendar of June.

Today after visiting the shrine I went shopping for the container, rock sugar, and white liquor to make plum wine.

After coming home I picked up the plums, washed, wiped, and put into the container with rock sugar and white liquor for the first time.

It will take for a few months to be able to drink. 

Present campaign of my 168th ebook was over.

I pubIished the168th ebook.

2025.5.31

It was a rainy day.

I wore kimono and headed for Yokohama to attend a luncheon of 133 participants  sponsored by Kimono shop.

To my glad I got a QUO card of yen2000.

After that I walked to Yamashita park, China town and Yokohama stadium and headed for Tokyo.

I visited Shiba Dai Jingu shrine and Zojoji temple and went to the Tokyo Prince Hotel to attend a seminar of 1200 people.

After that I had dinner with my friend at a Vietnamese restaurant.

To my glad my 167th e−book became No.1 in the USA.