Scent of autumn.
Look around and found the tree yesterday.
金木犀
Sweet scent from those orange flowers.
実に良い香り
Air is getting cooler day by day.
I could follow the scent to search where it comes from. One of pleasures of this time of the year.
If you, a friend or someone you care is being in Japan, it’s necessary stay indoors not to go out tomorrow through Sunday morning.
Buy a bottle of water (2L per person/d), keep the bathwater in the tub, find a flashlight, matches and candles.
こわい
残念
Most of public transit, bullet train and probably airport will get impact.
It’s very unfortunate and I regret it.
Still as RWC Committee announced, safety is utmost priority.
Where there is life, there is hope.
I’ve experienced huge typhoon twice in my life.
Once in Guam and other one in New York while traveling.
In both cases, airport destroyed and could take flight days later from the original flight schedule.
Pongsona in Guam, what I recall first is washed my hair at the broken water pipe on the street. It was hot, humid, and developped itchy.
while we were in the eye of the storm, We stayed on B1F, all sit on the floor through the night.
Water stopped, power outage, public transportation was not available. Lights had fallen at many intersections.
Mom and I, our hotel room was on 18F, the hotel served a meal several times a day so I took stairs from 18F to the entrance floor and back to 18F holding two meals and water bottles for two.
To flush the toilet, I drew seawater from the hotel pool at 1F, using a garbage box installed to our room.
It was early 2000, the Internet environment was not like now, we all had to wait for announcements and guidance given from the travel agency.
Sandy in New York, I followed my husband’s business trip to New Jersey.
We did sightseeing during the first few days. We knew hurricane is moving toward the city.
The city had taken measures prior, that saved us from many could-have-faced problems.
When we returned to the hotel in New Jersey, we were ordered to move to another hotel where supposed to be safer.
It was snowing outside. I saw a squirrel on the tree and a deer freely walking in a parking lot.
Date, time odds for 3 Nov 2012
News report
At night
By midnight power was down and we stayed in front of the fireplace with other guests.
Next morning we found out that JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty all of airports were devastated by the destructive storm.
Flight schedule had to change. I think two days just waited.
Day three or so I could take flight somehow to Seattle.
Waited a half day, and finally took flight to Narita Tokyo.
Natural disaster we cannot fight, heed the wisdom and wait out the typhoon is pass.
This summer was crazy hot and it lasted longer than usual.
Removed weeds myself twice, but that’s not enough. so here it is.
It looked overgrown and over my head.
モジャ
モジャモジャ
We made a reservation to a one of landscape gardeners close to home, it was in Sep, there are too many bookings more than they can handle at that time, and we were in queue for a month.
庭が
こんなに
きれいになった
庭だけ新築
ありがとう庭屋さん
I got an email from Amazon regarding information leak.
Got little worried and contacted to Amazon customer service.
The person answered my chat said he/she is not in charge of the issue, it’ll be transferred to an another customer support team.
I asked to distribute my inquiries to the customer support team,
that I’m worried and I’d like to know if there is any possible access during the time my ID was visible to other people.
Also to the explanation “Amazon has taken measures for preventing recurrence, I’d like to know more details.
What I received was the same email, a brief version.
I love Amazon, it’s hard to imagine living without it.
But they should know how huge they are and how many customers they are holding. I’m just a ordinary person but it doesn’t mean my ID can be a tiny sacrifice for Amazon.
I’m sad.
There used to be six living under one roof.
Today only mom and my older brother living at my parent’s home. With two cats.
G san and Chobi
I’m living separately in an apartment. It’s 4 train stations away.
Thought about it for a while, and started clearing away to make room for us to move back home.
Living with parents-in-law is still the ordinary in case of marrying to eldest brother. In other words, a male partner moves in to his partner’s parents home is something you don’t see everyday.
Fortunately, my partner agreed to move in.
He helped me, and my family, directly and indirectly a lot while I was occupied. Being with him I am being able to remain calm, kind and peace.
Disposals: a table, benches, bed, shoe box, book shelf, pipe chairs, countertop table. At houseB
Broken furniture, kitchen tools, clothes, shoes, chair, shelf. At houseA
Must remove: 1.fridge 2.sofa 3.double sized mattress and base. At houseA
4.hanging chair. At houseB
It was easy filling in some info then apply to Trefac, it’s a second hand goods company. A pick up schedule they suggested was on Sunday 6th Oct.
At the same time, my partner put those must remove stuff on the Internet Yahoo auction site.
And the fridge was bought by someone at the possibly highest expected price to cover the delivery fee.
Next would be sofa, bed, a hanging chair. They are less popular though.
Not for a daily use..
All of disposal and packing will be done by early Nov.
What is good about moving?
It gives an opportunity to review what we have, what really use, and what we can release.
Every time I experience moving, the number of my possessions reduced.
For weeks, mom and I are running errands changing ownerships from dad to mom, or to my brother.
We made a contract to a person who has certification and can apply legal administrative documentations to the office for us.
He’ll take care of land and property ownership change, and tax on inheritance.
And insurance, bank account, credit card, mobile phone, utilities, donation, membership, subscription and all of belongings will be in-basket of remaining family to take care of.
While doing things for dad, I learned lessons at first hand, that is less possessions would be better, easier and kinder.
Like dad, I prepared my living will note.
In one page “account in electronic”,
list up all of ID/PW.
The site would be WP, slack, OneDrive, google drive, iCloud, ownCloud and so on. Also email address and password.
A mobile contract and a bank account.
For some I have subscription contract so those must be terminated,
but it can only appear in my banknote,
and banknote these days is an electronic form,
meaning it will be overlooked without sharing email notifications.
And put a link of termination page on each website.
Tangible is easy as it’s existing right there, like a car in a parking lot.
Hopefully someone develops one-stop app that allows user to fill in SNSs account/password to execute account termination all at once.
It’s the must have app near future.
We had a guest cat.
Haha.
Sleeping.
Finally, awakened.
It’s day before yesterday.
Sadly we don’t see outdoor cats like used to these days.
It’s not accepted feeding outdoor cats in a parking lot any more, if I do I’ll probably get sued by a neighbor.
Hope he’ll be able to feel safe out there.
Continuing from my previous blog about oil painting.
We purchased beautiful masterpiece it’s a Claude Monet.
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
Next to Van Gogh, Monet is in the sun.
No TV, no music, just seeing paintings.
