End of Life

My Bluetooth ear phone is now dead… after use of 5 years or possibly longer!

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One-side… left side has no sounds coming through anymore.

Time to replace this...

Order Placed!

Has to be done sometimes before September this year for sure.
Finally… order is placed!

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Here it is!
Contract is now official and valid. Happy
When to be delivered? That is the remaining question for us.

Engraving Complete

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Requested engraving of my nickname is completed.
So I received a call for pick-up.
Here it is!

Back to my collection… will be part of my work life from tomorrow? Maybe next week? Hehehe.

Looks AWESOME!
Don't you think?

Reunion

It was a good... better than good.
It was a GREAT reunion.
Saw two guys who were part of my life particularly in previous career.

Ex-boss and ex-coworker.

ex-boss just retired and got hired as post-retirement career development!
Congrats!
He must love to work. I would do retire in ordinary way at age 60 for sure. Hehehe.

ex-coworker in picture just got relocated back to Japan.
Welcome home!

Spent time about at least several hours after work tonight.
Our conversation over our past was definitely unstoppable.
It was very fun memories. Lots of incidents and accidents.

Though, we worked in a harmony. Like a family.

That is why, still today, we can easily get together over drinks.
And now I owe a big task.
I have to organize a big spree for all friends in order to celebrate those two.

Ex-boss is to be assigned a job overseas soon.
ex-coworker is back in Japan for 1st time in 6 years or so.
Yeah, indeed worth to hold a big festivity on those facts for sure.

Maybe 15-30 people can come to have fun with us? Hope so.
Will see how well I can organize such an event.

Anyway, surely I had more drinks than I should.
Hahaha.
One more day to go for this week.

Well, I have another appointment... oh boy.
I am so fortunate! Hehehe.

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Counting Everything?

Hi folks. What's up?
Much better climate today - compared with previous day which was quite hot!
Today, things seemed to be very mild. I like it.

For work, I at least made some progress.
Productive enough? That is a good and critical question. Hahaha.
At least I know what I am doing and my stakeholders should appreciate the direction that I am hitting to.

Is that dream? No. It is a fact. Winking

My schedule, particularly after work, suddenly became quite tight.
Received several emails from friends - ex bosses.
They are free for remaining of the week. Not busy? Not sure.

Thus, tomorrow and day after - both days are now booked. Yeah, sold out! Winking

For this month, the number of days with alcoholic intakes seems to be rising.
Do I count? Sure I do.
I do count such for a long time... at least over several years.

Thus, I can tell when I drank with who in where, etc. Hehehe.
Everything is pretty much in record. Not only of this blog, moron! Winking
This month... so far the number has reached 9.

9 days out of 15 - May 15th... I took some kind of alcoholic beverage.

Too many? Too few? What do you think?
Compared to last year - which was 10 for whole month.
Compared to year before last - which was 12 (ditto).

9 for half month is quite high!!!
Call me alcoholic!
Plus, 2 days are going to be added after day after tomorrow.

Oh boy. The number is to be 11 (days)!!!

Last night, I was newly informed that MoonFlower changed her plan (once again!).
No longer planned to go home to see her month from Friday for 2 nights.
She actually postponed it.

Meaning, my plan is FORCED to adjust such nature.
Hmm.
At least she will be out on Saturday; I can go to cut my hair, etc. Least I can do.

At least I should enjoy my own time. True freedom!

Planning Weekend Already?

Hi folks.
It was quite warm today... actually hot!
Well, I was wise enough not to go out at all during the day.
I stayed and worked pretty late in the office.

Yeah, I worked to avoid the heat! Hahaha. Just kidding.

Agenda for the day shifted quite bit from the beginning.
I was supposed to conduct some research.
Though, single email from my boss changed the entire view for the day.

I was requested to brush up some presentation along with some research for validation.
Totally different topic. In fact, totally unfamiliar discussion.
It was of corporate taxes.

I hate tax stuff and in fact not familiar with it at all.
Hard to deal with tax terminology in English on top of everything.
No wonder that I couldn't go lunch at all.

My lunch bag from convenience store came around 3pm. Oh boy...

Anyway, the day is over. I can do my own agenda tomorrow... even though postponed from today.

For coming weekend, I found that things are not along with my preference.
MoonFlower seems to go on her own.
She needs to see her mother and goes to school for her usual learning.

It means that I will be entirely FREE!
Is that good news?
Well, I have two boxes of plastic model (of figures!) to assemble.

Perfect to my time to spend for such hobby? Sure thing.

Wait. When MF is going to leave? Friday or Saturday?
That makes a big difference. Hehehe.
Another question is of course about when she'll be back.

I would say, this weekend is just last one before going into tight schedule.
Thus, I should enjoy myself as much and do things that I need to do.
That should include hair-cut and possibly perm.

Wow, I would get quite busy then.
I'd better plan it well.
Planning carefully... Hehehe.

At least we cannot go to any auto dealer during this weekend.
I originally thought that we would go to Mercedes Benz.
Maybe another weekend.

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Photo just arrived. From my mother received flowers that I sent for Mother's Day.
Pretty nice!
I never knew of that beforehand because placed an order online. Hehehe.

Dealership Visit

Original plan was totally different.
MoonFlower wanted to go to Ginza for (window) shopping.
Because of some special sales in some department store.

After her (intense?) consideration, we no longer needed to go.

Thus, we went out by car. To where? Dealership.
In fact, visited 3 different dealers within today. Fast, huh.
First, it was Audi.

Audi dealer shares the parking lot with some restaurant.
The guide in the parking lot thought that we were for food.
Hahaha. MoonFlower and I did not look like one going to Audi.

Maybe because too luxury brand for someone like us. Hehehe.

Checked out A1 and A3. Even test drive with A3. NOT BAD AT ALL.
Actually, everything was cool and nice. Very smooth.
May be too good... to feel anything while driving.

The showroom was notably luxurious and spacey. Nice.

Stopped by 2nd place, Alfa Romeo. Yes, Giulietta.
It was first touch for MF - Italian car.
She definitely loved the exterior. Very stylish.

Test drive... very fun to drive. COOL. I liked it.

Then last not least... Winking BMW. Went there around 5pm.
Many luxury cars were placed within limited space!
Sales man was very proud of what he was selling.

BMW is great car with lots of neat technology!

No wonder that so many friends around me did buy such car.

I liked 3 Series so much. Though, MF cannot drive a big car.
Thus, we shifted toward 1 Series.
Unfortunately, no 1 Series for test drive available today.

So your big question must be like "Are we seriously going to buy a new car?"
Well, I do not know.
Today, it was nothing but just educational.

Understanding what kind of car is in the market for how much value.

Maybe we ought to try MB. yeah, Mercedes-Benz, next time. Hahaha.
Wait. Have I ever thought about the budget?
As far as I know, I have never ever estimated or came up with any particular figures.

Nothing in my mind... BAD, huh. My fault.
Well, will see how this our interest in buying a new car develops hereof.

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For supper, we went into an Italian restaurant nearby.
Got a couple of glasses of wine over dried food and pasta.
Good and easy dine-out tonight.

All right. That is all for this weekend. Happy

GW Ends with Home Drinking

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Jam, New Wallet, and Wine

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House Cleaning & BBQ

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Yokohama

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Friends and Oysters

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