What's up with you, Hannah?My cat Hannah, female 3 years old, has been a bit acting strangely for some time (a week).
She usually sleeps along somewhere in the room unless it is extremely cold a bit away from me. She slept inside the sleeping bag with me when we were camping in a tent last Spring with the temperature inside the tent close to zero Celsius.
She sleeps with me (on the cover) since a week ago. Strange. I know it has been a bit colder but it is not too cold.
I don't mind her change at all. I like it better but I don't know what is going on with her. I will see if her change lasts.
Mazda MX-5It has been my car for the last five years and I love it. If and when I decide to come back to Japan, I will bring it home with me. It is after all a Mazda, a Japanese car.
Japan adopted England (or the UK) style transportation system when it wanted to be motorized more than one hundred years ago at the end of Samurai ruling period. In my view it was a unfortunate decision, though.
It the Japanese government had decided to adopt the US or continental European system back then, things would have been very different by now.
It is possible to maintain a European Mazda MX-5 (Mazda "Roadster" in Japan) reasonably in Japan, I guess. Parts are obtainable from any Mazda dealers all over Japan. Some parts, however, will be very difficult to get in Japan, I imagine. Namely, the interior parts because the driver's seat is located on the "wrong" side in my car.
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テーマ:愛車と日常 - ジャンル:車・バイク
- 2022/11/07(月) 19:25:32|
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A rear boot (or trunk) end spoiler arrived a long while ago but ... I bought a small soft spoiler from seemingly from a Taiwanese manufacturer and sent from Hong Kong a while ago. It has arrived soon after it was ordered (and paid).
The transporting agent at least the international crossing-borders part was handled by Fedex, which was the reason the it traveled at a light-speedish rate.
Alas the final delivery in Luxembourg part was handled by a small company (probably a Belgian company?) and this agent did (at least the time of the delivery and likely even now and sometime in the near future) not have a Luxembourg base. It meant that the delivery options in case the delivery target (in this case me) was expected not home on the expected delivery date were the following: 1. to designate a new address 2. to designate someone in the neighborhood who could receive it 3. to leave instructions where to hide the package around the building 4. to set a new delivery date on t heir Internet site.
I did not want to bother my employer (by changing the delivery address to my work place) so the only sensible choice was to take the fourth one when I would be home if I wanted.
It (the transporting agent) did not even have so-called pick-up points in the area, which was the reason I guessed it did not have a base in Luxembourg. Most transporters have pick-up points in Luxembourg, where customers can pick the package up at their convenient time.
Anyway, on the new delivery date I waited until 14:30 in the afternoon but nobody came. I had to leave for work that day. I left a small note on a piece of paper stuck on the button to ring saying that I went out of time so leave the package somewhere or someone.
Later when I came home the package was there by the door to my room inside the apartment building. OK I got it.
It was a long time ago but I haven't installed it yet as I was lazy.
One of my favorite pastime: crossword puzzlesI had know what crossword puzzles were like I was small. I came to know what "real" crossword puzzles were like when I began to live in the United States of America in the early 90's. I watched the Presidential campaign all the year where Bill Clinton won the race. That meant I moved there late 91, I guess.
Since then solving them became my favorite pastime. I did not have access to them while I worked in Japan in the late 90's up to early 2000's. I steadily enjoy them since I moved to Europe.
Anyway, crossword puzzles are not popular in Japan and Japanese versions are quite different from real English ones mainly because the differences in the two language structures, namely the characters. It is basically impossible to make a Japanese crossword puzzles following the strict rules set by the English crossword puzzle creation manner. For example it is impossible to form symmetrical black-and-white forms in Japanese puzzles if you want the puzzles to be bigger than few columns and rows.
Occasionally I come across some answers that make me smile or grin. I have an app on my phone. Here are some screenshots to show what I mean.
The images are coming!
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- 2022/11/01(火) 16:39:41|
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