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2024-08-16 10:05:39

Heading to the US, first time since before COVID. Will see family and a client. Somehow the flight to SFO tonight didn’t get cancelled, but Haneda is empty. ✈️

2024-08-16 09:32:14

“Bookie” is a good series, funny and dark with a great cast.

2024-08-07 02:26:48

PSA: as more than 120 people (many elderly, per AP news) died of heatstroke in Tokyo in July 2024, record heat and heat warnings continue. Learn the signs (high temp, lack of sweat, slurred speech, confusion, headache, nausea, dizziness etc) and first aid for heatstroke, and take precautions! 🥵
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/heatstroke-first-aid.png

2024-07-31 00:22:58

Is anyone using breathing techniques like the Wim Hof method or 4-7-8 or box breathing? I’m thinking of trying it for a while and wanted to ask anyone’s experiences. 🧘🏼

2024-07-30 21:59:48

Maru the Shiba doesn’t recently run around like a crazed mongrel after his walk, but today he ran around like a crazed mongrel after his walk. Of course we encouraged it; always good for a laugh. 🐾💨

2024-07-30 11:48:04

Some snaps from a night strolling and eating in Shinjuku Tokyo, a few years back. 📷
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2024-07-27 03:10:09

Maru the Shiba looking cool on a hot summer day 😎
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2024-07-27 02:53:24

If you use a Yubikey for MFA for your Apple Id: it failed for me during the install of a new Mac (rejected the correct PIN), so I opted to setup later. When I did so, MacOS raised an error about the Yubikey being a keyboard, so I resolved that first, then was able to setup Apple Id. 🤷🏼‍♂️

2024-07-22 06:31:23

Jogged about 13km from Totsuka to Kamakura in the Xero H-Trail sandals on Saturday early AM, then used the shower facilities at OSJ Shonan Club House before meeting A for lunch. Convenient, and they had a full range of Altra shoes! 🚿
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/img-6612.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/img-6610.jpg http://www.powersports.co.jp/clubhouse/

2024-07-22 06:21:30

Had my hugo build scripts all break at once, because of some deprecations. Fortunately an easy fix. ⚙

2024-07-16 06:13:01

I’ve been wearing “barefoot” shoes for jogging for a few years now, and decided to try these Xero H-Trail running sandals. Wore them this AM on a 3km jog on various surfaces, and they worked well even in the rain. The key was to not grip the toe post too much and to stay relaxed. 🏃
https://xeroshoes.com/shop/sandals/h-trail-men/

2024-07-16 06:06:55

My US driver’s license is expired so I am getting an International Drivers License to be able to rent a car when I visit. It should be easier than this, but, I just want to say that the process at the police station in Totsuka was super simple, friendly even. 👮

2024-07-03 06:05:42

JIS finally released the Japanese language version of ISO 27002, called “JIS Q 27002:2024”. This is the guideline to ISO 27001’s annex A, a good practice guideline for implementing infosec controls. Now we don’t have to rely on beta translations. 🚀
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/jrc-screenshot-2024-07-03-at-15.04.08.png https://webdesk.jsa.or.jp/books/W11M0090/index/?bunsyo_id=JIS+Q+27002%3A2024

2024-06-26 00:45:20

Plant Plunderage https://cogley.jp/2024/06/26/plant-plunderage.html

2024-06-21 03:58:56

Have you heard of the important BSI Standard PAS 5222:2024, developed to give guidelines for safeguarding children during out-of-school activities? My hope is that ISO and JIS pick it up. 🛝
https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/child-safeguarding-provisions-for-out-of-school-settings-specification/standard

2024-06-17 07:46:30

Maru’s favorite spot, looking handsome after his trim. 🐕
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2024-06-15 09:50:11

Lucky Brews for this lucky dad! 🥰
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2024-06-13 21:07:26

Daughter 2 brought delicious cannelè sweets in various flavors from Shinagawa station. It’s a celebration! 🥳
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/34d700f912.jpg

2024-06-11 06:57:24

Another abandoned building in my area, this time a “danchi” public housing apartment building. You can put them up, but it costs money to tear them down, so they sit and rot! (This is why we sold off the apartment my FIL built.)
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/img-6544.jpg

2024-06-08 00:10:49

Abandoned kindergarten where our girls went is supposedly managed by a Uni, but it’s just overrun with weeds. 😔
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/49cd3e23d2.jpg

2024-06-06 08:23:37

We are usually flexible when delivering professional services, but recently a client went so far as to complain about being billed for what they ordered, despite us having done extra scope for that job. It’s time to train them by strictly controlling scope. 🗡️

2024-06-05 00:16:08

The reactions of Trump followers regarding the unanimous guilty verdict handed in by the jury were predictable, and comical. I guess they don’t realize both sides select the jury?! 🤡 Also a pleasure to see the press refute every single lie spouted at the post-verdict press conference.

2024-05-28 21:15:04

Google should pause AI overviews until they are sure the advice is sane. It’s like taking sarcastic Reddit copypasta as your source of truth. I signed Mozilla’s petition. 🤥
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/google-ai-overviews/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mofo&utm_campaign=24-Google-AI-Overviews&utm_content=Text_Tell-Google&utm_term=en

2024-05-23 10:45:02

I’m a Spingle fan. They’re a Hiroshima shoe brand, and I’ve had good luck with fit and durability. My old canvas ones rotted so I got these. 👟
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/dd91b3e330.jpg https://www.spingle.jp/

2024-05-20 00:57:24

I tried Uber Eats for the first time here in Japan, and there was a tip option. I feel like tipping is really American, but still I tipped. Sincere question: do the drivers not get paid unless you tip? Appreciate any insights…

2024-05-15 20:48:57

The “NY cheesecake” Lotte Chocopie is good. Really really good. 🤩
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/06575ca4d6.jpg

2024-05-15 00:59:01

Yesterday was removal of about 6000m of old LAN cable from an office that was moved out of. We installed this 20 years ago. 💪
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2024-05-15 00:52:45

In a Starbucks before a meeting, and the noise pollution is quite incredible. There’s the BGM, door open pings, mobile order bings, staff taking orders, and of course people in remote calls. Noisy! 💥

2024-05-13 09:56:25

“The Favourite” on Netflix is just fantastic. A hysterical romp. 😀

2024-05-12 04:20:42

We had decadent parfaits in Atami, and the food at the cottage was 5🌟
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2024-05-11 23:20:03

It’s been a hard couple of months with no Golden Week, so we are at a detached cottage in Ito soaking in the onsen. Lovely place! 😊

2024-05-10 08:47:02

The yen is so weak that what was bound to happen, has happened: pricing by whether a person is a tourist or not. As a white guy lifer, I am so not looking forward to having to prove I’m a permanent resident, to not get charged JPY 3000 for ramen. 🍜

2024-05-06 00:04:21

Today is gomu-no-hi or “rubber day” where the “gomu” is a goroawase word play on the date 5/6, “go” and “mu”, established as a PR day for rubber products. Did you know it takes ~5 yr to go from rubber tree to latex? Imagine a world without rubber… 🎈
https://cogley.jp/goroawase/

2024-05-01 21:28:18

Hi @help is the Notes feature supposed to work in iOS?
https://micro.blog/help

2024-04-29 09:23:59

Wondering when JIS is going to finally release 27002, which is a kind of “best practices” guideline for Annex A in 27001. JSA says within 2024 … 👨‍🌾⌛️
https://www.jsa.or.jp/ms-sp-1/isoiec27001-jisq15001devtrend/

2024-04-27 23:05:22

The slippery wriggling of the conservative justices as they try to find a way to grant immunity is just horrifying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-immunity-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-04-27 02:54:55

Are you aware of the ISO 37000 standard, guidance on the governance of organizations? It’s an interesting one, since there was nothing like before it was published. Kudos to the volunteer contributors who make standards like this. 🧑🏻‍⚖️
https://www.iso.org/standard/65036.html

2024-04-24 11:35:40

Dr. Hurth makes a good argument for why standards are important, even vital, talking about ISO 37000 Governance of Organizations. Check out the interview on BSI’s The Standards Show podcast. 〄
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2024/victoria-hurth.jpg https://the-standards-show.onpodium.co/episodes/why-i-am-a-standards-maker-victoria-hurth

2024-02-28 19:56:08

The other day in Otemachi of all places, I saw a group of 3 or 4 teen boys carving up a parking garage entrance on skateboards. It was jarring to see that in that area. 🛹

2024-01-25 20:44:24

With the release of Apple iOS 17.3 comes “stolen device protection” (盗難デバイスの保護), in Settings, Face/TouchID & Passcode. Tap “Turn on Protection” to require biometrics with no passcode fallback, if your iPhone is outside familiar locations. Slick! 🙅‍♂️😈
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-stolen-device-protection-iph17105538b/ios

2024-01-23 00:24:23

Kindergarten teachers and their charges at a street crossing. Must be stressful! 📷🎌
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2024-01-19 01:11:40

FIDO2 security keys for M365 MFA have been working at my firm eSolia for over a year. Enabling an Entra conditional access policy to require “phishing resistant MFA” for admins (aka FIDO2 keys!), caused an endless loop of pain.

2023-12-26 19:05:28

“Kiji” pheasants have a grating call that I always said sounds like a rusty gate, but I found a more apt comparison: the scraping sound of sliding plastic hangers along a pole. 😬

2023-12-25 19:50:42

It’s not a thing where I’m from, but Boxing Day each Dec 26, has an interesting origin of being a day for the more fortunate to give to the less so. There’s also Cricket and big sales. 🎁⛪️
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

2023-12-23 22:33:38

NYT Connections is a cool game where you pick groups of four words with some connection from easy to hard.
Puzzle #196
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

2023-12-22 19:16:38

On 12/23 in 1982 Japan NTT designated this day “telephone card day”. My first real job was at a design co that licensed idol and actor photos, selling “tereca” printed with them and some English text, to dept stores. 🎌☎️
https://www.ntt-east.co.jp/ptd/contents/mag_card.html

2023-12-21 19:23:19

Per GEDA, 12/22 1997 (H9) marks when generic medicines were first allowed by MHLW, giving Japan consumers access to cheaper alternatives. Med patents expire in ~20 yrs, after which generics can be made. 🇯🇵💊
http://www.ge-da.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug

2023-12-20 19:13:53

Today 21 Dec is the anniversary of the first “word-cross” puzzle, published in the New York World in 1913 (T2) by its editor Arthur Wynn. 📰
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword

2023-12-20 18:59:25

Walkers have precedence on the highways and byways of Sumida… 📷🇯🇵
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/9a773a0d-785d-4f31-893a-50ec6911d105.jpeg

2023-12-19 19:02:20

Optimists waiting in the cold to buy their 年末ジャンボー “year end jumbo” lottery ticket. 📷🇯🇵
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2023-12-18 22:09:54

Red down left 📷
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2023-12-18 18:43:31

Baron Yoshitoshi Tokugawa (relative of the last Shogun) piloted Japan’s first powered flight 19 Dec 1910 where Yoyogi Park is today. 🇯🇵🪽
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitoshi_Tokugawa

2023-12-17 19:00:53

Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in one of the Terminator films has a good line in the new Reacher season on Amazon Prime. Someone asks about an alias: “Who’s Sarah Conner?” and his character quips, “I don’t give a shit, just keep an eye on that hotel.” 😆

2023-12-16 19:01:41

2023-12-16 18:54:37

Dec 17 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was the first 4 manned flights by the Wright Brothers over a short distance. Today you can hang glide it! 🛫📷
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/c8ed6424-a3c8-4d1f-821d-30c448233d1b.jpeg

2023-12-16 18:36:47

Dec 16, 1890 (M23) marks the start of phone service between Tokyo and Yokohama with 155 and 44 phones respectively. The 7 female operators (with 2 males on night shift) could connect you for 240K JPY in today’s money. 🇯🇵📞

2023-12-15 16:04:06

Destruction of the ancestral “jikka” home under tarps, 2019. 📷🇯🇵
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/3cca3f90-f954-4551-8167-ea41d1ad23aa.jpeg

2023-12-14 19:15:25

A program in place since 1906 in Japan, Dec 15-25 marks the period during which you can post a 年賀状 “nengajo” postcard for Jan 1 arrival. 🇯🇵🏣📷
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/c60a0fdf-d5f9-4046-be1f-d344285780ad.png https://mailmate.jp/blog/guide-japan-new-year-greeting-nengajyou

2023-12-13 17:55:24

Maru the Shiba came back from day care and the staff who drove him said he and other Shibas hadn’t pooped. A border collie friend kept running up like “hey! Whatcha doing!? Any good smells there?” causing poopus interruptus. 😂🐕
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/8235516d-05d9-4f42-979d-71c4b3627630.jpeg

2023-12-13 17:55:20

Empty Tokyo restaurant. 📷⏳
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2023-12-12 21:06:09

Dec 13 marks the formal start in Japan of 正月事始め（shougatsu-goto-hajime） when the Big Tidy activities start and it’s off to the mountains to get 門松 (kadomatsu) materials. 🎍🇯🇵
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu

2023-12-12 20:38:12

Bean bun boogie, Shinbashi Tokyo. 📷🧆
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/e192b7dd-96bb-4106-b90e-e2ff9e79345f.jpeg

2023-12-11 19:02:25

Alien traffic safety mascot approaches. 📷👽
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/97b825b5-376d-47c2-b55f-33e66be853c4.jpeg

2023-12-10 22:15:43

Dec 11 is International Mountain Day, a day to think on our impact on vital mountain ecosystems. I wish I was hiking today! 🏔️📷
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/dc7edd3a-d726-4822-8bb2-2b636ece4c3d.jpeg https://www.un.org/en/observances/mountain-day

2023-12-10 19:42:57

Scaffolding went up before the old “jikka“ ancestral home was torn down. Four years ago already! 📷🏡

2023-12-10 09:20:37

Yesterday our 大掃除 “ohsouji” or “Big Tidy” task was replacing the ugly brown mats we’d laid downstairs with nice wood-like flooring. Took all day & was really hard, but looks good & we can use the heated floor. 💦

2023-12-09 21:24:16

This weekend is 大掃除 “ohsouji” or the “Big Tidy” as I like to call it, where the nooks and crannies get so clean even Marie Kondo blushes. If you’re not in Japan, do you do this? 📷🇯🇵🧽🧹
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/22188f84-7304-4f3e-8de4-4cae9b24db45.jpeg

2023-12-09 21:24:13

8000 US $ per hour?! Wow.

2023-12-09 19:34:07

Udagawa Yu-sui-chi is a little nature conservation area near a park we take Maru the Shiba to almost daily. You can’t go down into it but you can peer at it to see birds. 📷🦆
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/614a707c-1749-4615-b6ec-bd74d073d8bf.jpeg

2023-12-08 19:24:15

Snaps of a Hillman in Higashi Azabu, 2016.
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2023-12-08 19:24:02

Dec 9 is International Anti-Corruption Day. Corruption follows and causes conflict globally, and is inherently undemocratic. It’s worth your thoughts and fight! 🤛
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/image-2023-12-09-4-14.png https://www.un.org/en/observances/anti-corruption-day

2023-12-07 18:05:44

Japan marks Dec 8 as “Start of the Pacific War Day” although we don’t really hear about it that much. May all those who died at Pearl Harbor and after, rest in peace. 😔

2023-12-06 18:35:09

RIP Norman Lear whose work shaped my childhood. 101! Such influence; a life well lived. 🖤🤍

2023-12-06 17:55:28

Dec 7 is World Kamishibai Day! It’s the art of telling a story to children while showing cards mounted in a box, popularized in Japan in the 1930s. Have you seen it or something similar? 🇯🇵👩‍👩‍👧‍👦
https://www.kamishibai-ikaja.com/en/kamishibai-eng.html

2023-12-05 22:25:40

Atsuta Horaiken is a famous eel shop in Nagoya since 1873. Two hour wait, and 3100 yen for lunch in 2011! The servers looked bored, but were chatting, pretty in their pajama-like purple kimono uniforms. 📷🇯🇵
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/6f49eefe-8497-4a37-a327-322eea0c6eb5.jpeg

2023-12-05 22:25:37

23andMe confirmed the leak of 6.9 million users’ ancestry data. That’s just stunningly bad. You’d think they’d have superior cyber security but no, they’re only just now getting around to requiring 2FA. 😱
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/hackers-stole-ancestry-data-of-6-9-million-users-23andme-finally-confirmed/

2023-12-05 12:28:51

Besides it being my sister’s birthday 🥳 it’s also International Volunteer Day. Did you know you can volunteer online? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/image-2023-12-05-21-22.png https://www.un.org/en/observances/volunteer-day https://app.unv.org/

2023-12-05 12:10:43

At my checkup, asked about flu shots this yr, and they had had a cancellation so I jumped on it. Got a garlic and B vitamins shot to counteract the flu shot. Ever had? 💉🦠

2023-12-04 19:03:13

Can I get your PIN? At a 370 yr old wagashi sweets shop in Nagoya called Ryokuchiya Korekiyo, 2011. This person was kindly explaining and answering my many questions. 📷🇯🇵🍡
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/8e9956d9-8dd5-4e54-bddd-41ad585e3549.jpeg

2023-12-04 00:10:55

For #MicroMonday I’d like to share and thank Sven Dahlstrand (@sod), who is a great help in the m.b forum & makes great posts and plugins. 📅🙏🏻
https://micro.blog/discover/micromonday https://dahlstrand.net/about/

2023-12-03 18:07:03

In 2010, the famous dept store Matsuya in Ginza Tokyo was wearing a Louis Vuitton livery. 📷🇫🇷
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/9ba3fa8e-b1cf-4f1e-a49a-6a98b3972e1a.jpeg

2023-12-02 23:21:32

Some snaps from a morning jog in Tennozu Isle Shinagawa Tokyo, 2016. It’s a whole feeling to wander among these buildings when there’s nobody around. 📷🏢
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2023-12-02 17:24:13

Dec 3rd is “International Day of Persons with Disabilities” a day to reflect on what you have, and how you can help differently-abled others. 🤗
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/02b71329-b518-4a3d-aebb-a82db514a8df.png https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-of-persons-with-disabilities

2023-12-01 19:10:48

Dec 2 is World Nuclear Energy Day, from Fermi’s success on this day in 1942, in getting the first sustained chain reaction at Pile-1 in Chicago. Ponder the pros and cons today. ☢️🌐
https://worldnuclearenergyday.org/

2023-12-01 18:12:01

I liked this lettering: not only front to back on the truck but italicized in the opposite from normal manner. Wonder if the tilt is consistent on the left side of the truck. 📷🚛
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/4eed10c8-bc90-4449-8533-6b1a054215e0.jpeg

2023-11-30 17:17:39

The old are replaced … 📷🚕
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/6ce6c38a-6b42-4920-8110-3056ac654c30.jpeg

2023-11-29 21:21:10

Japan Post’s 巡回郵便 “junkai yuubin” service truck (Shinjuku 2010), picking up and delivering near organizations with large mail volume. Usually it’s a SuperCub! 📷🇯🇵📮
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2023-11-28 21:41:04

Goroawase is flexible. Today 11/29 is いい肉 “good meat” day, but also ワンワン服 “doggy clothes” day according to Global Pets of Yokohama. 🇯🇵
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8053/2023/33f3b267-3758-4d5f-a5d5-3dacdb509708.jpeg

2023-11-28 18:17:46

Evening walk with Fuji. 📷🗻🇯🇵
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2023-11-28 10:44:00

Learners of Nihongo, can you guess why today 28 Nov is フランスパンの日 French Bread Day? A certain friendship association used goroawase to make it so. 🥖🇯🇵
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2023-11-27 22:23:41

Mokichi Foods Garden in Chigasaki serves great food and has a lovely interior with luxe lighting. 📷🍷
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2023-11-26 18:29:52

Today 27 Nov in 1895, inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel executed his will creating the eponymous prizes, after having read his own obituary in which he was dubbed “the merchant of death.” 🏅🧨

2023-11-26 18:08:23

Daughter 2’s bf came over to meet us, so we had a barbecue. It was so cold the charcoal was fighting the weather. Used a burner to get a nice caramelization (on the meats not the guy!). 🍖🔥
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2023-11-25 22:33:32

Lo! The “dent of authenticity” along the top of a real, genuine Milk carton! No “milk drink” for these Cogleys, no sir. 📷🥛
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2023-11-25 20:02:42

Daycare sent us this snap of Maru the Shiba and his Shiba friends. 📷🐕
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2023-11-24 23:24:26

This grass along the river was a pretty orange, more saturated than you’d expect normally in the fall. 📷🌾
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2023-11-24 19:52:44

Maru the Shiba of Awaji Island turns 3 today; happy birthday little buddy! He still doesn’t like his birthday hat & bib, but he loved the special meal K made! 🎉🐕3️⃣
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2023-11-24 06:05:00

Today 11/24 is the anniversary of the first opera performed in Japan, Faust, in 1894 (M27). 🎭🇯🇵

2023-11-23 23:07:46

Our visit to Shirakawago a couple years ago was lovely. We missed the snow by a week. 📷🏔️🇯🇵
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2023-11-22 21:01:27

Thanking you for your labors since Labor Thanksgiving Day 勤労感謝の日 was established in Japan in 1948, cats everywhere say “now feed me”. 📷😅🎌
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