Well, that’s my librem laptop finally packed in. I was hoping it would eek out its pitiful existence long enough for frame.work laptops to be available in Japan as I’d like the next laptop I buy to be the last. I guess I’ll need to search for a refurb to tide me over for now.

Quite the turn of events today.. cheeky wee rascal turned down a drip, and an overnight stay with her 3 favourite people in order to stay at home with her papa.. that was unexpected.. maybe I’m higher than 4th after all.. good times had and we may take our first papa and daughter trip to the cinema tomorrow if there is anything at all on that I will be able to understand.

Our tomato farming friends gave us a big bag of tomatoes which were not pretty enough for sale.. they are utterly delicious.. made a pizza sauce with some of them this evening.. was fantastic!

There may be an almost complete lack of vegan options for eating out here but the swathes of fresh produce, frequently free, makes giant strides towards making up for it!

Been really enjoying listening to music on SD card in the car rather than streaming (from my jellyfin server).. so just purchased a second hand Sony Walkman mp3 player online so that I can listen offline elsewhere. looking forward to it arriving!

I have now participated in a Japanese wedding (ours) and a Japanese wake, tomorrow will add funeral to the list.. I intend only to be a witness when we get to the creation of life ceremony, two is plenty.

Here in Japan there are clothes with slots for fans, or fans sewn into them.. this is likely true of other hot countries too but Scotland.. not so much. Anyway, I haven’t looked into them much as I imagine they devour batteries.. but I just thought to myself, what if they could be paired with a solar powered backpack.. the maybe we could go for a cycle in the Summer.. and now I may have a fun project to explore..

A curious thing just happened.. just before bed I picked up the kindergarten bags of both my daughters as is my habit, in order to grab the used clothes for washing..

Due to today’s shenanigans our 1 yr old didn’t go to nursery, but when I dropped off her older sister I also dropped of her bag as we anticipated her attending after the local doctor checkup..

So obviously there were no used clothes in her bag.. but all 3 face cloths were wet..

They were in a water-resistant zipped bag, just by themselves.. if she wasn’t in attendance how did they get wet? Why do we have to brand everything we supply with our children’s names if they are being used even when they aren’t even there? Wtf?

Wow, been living in rural Japan for a year already.. seems to have passed so quickly, especially in the context of sharing a bedroom with a (now) 1yr old sleep thief.

I quite enjoyed season 3 of The Mandalorian, more so than the previous 2 seasons, but let’s be honest.. it’s no Andor.

This was some day for one day, we had our meeting about the site we want for our brewery with the son who is representing the family who owns it..

.. lovely people, their concerns were about how it would work for us rather than anything relating to themselves.

.. they are open to us buying it on one condition, we take all of their land in the village..

.. so we need to find out how much land that is whilst testing water quality etc.

.. beyond exciting!