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.

2026.2.1

A new month has started.

February is Nigatsu (2月、二月) or Kisaragi (如月) in Japanese.

On the first day of the month there are some things I do.

One of them is to change offerings of the in-house shrine and change mounted salt.

The other is to visit shrines.

I decided to walk to the shrine and take awalk for a while because it was such a nice day. I happened to see a sign borad of the shrine, so I decided to visit there. It has a long history.

After that I decided to visit one more shrine which I visited last new year's day.

I visited one more place where my neighbour recommended me last week. I was going to buy some vegetables if there are, but it seemed that all were sold out.

I walked more than10 kilometers.

After coming home I ate sweets I bought yesterday with green tea.

At night I attended a zoom gathering.

I prepared the 197th ebook.