^{I woke up at 4:30. I got out of futon and opened the curtain of the window, there was snow outside, on the roof, too. It was windy today, and snowing this morning. I wonder if TV pretty weather reporter, Kaori, taught us last night it would be snowing here today. Anyway, it was true that it was stormy all day today. Her blog is the best very popular in Japan. By the way, I drove my mom to a clinic at 1 p.m. and got a call from her and went there again to pick her up soon at 3:30. She has a backache. By the way, KVM switch in the box arrived to me that I had ordered the day before yesterday on line. It is called "CPU changer" in Japan. It is used to change more than two PCs. I have had a used 15 inches display, IBM 2236, but I did not use and buy CPU changer, so the display cable was almost broken because I put it on PC and took off it again and again. Its neck got weak. The cable is connected directly on the display, so it could not be changed easily. I should have bought it earlier. So the machine is no problem, but the cable has been screwed by me to use. If I did not do it, the display only showed me in almost blue night on the display. I think it was twilight on it until last month. By the way, this my boots look made from rubber, but they were made from urethane. I bought them two years ago at DIY store about at $5.But I knew there was word on it by this picture. Then I looked up the word on the English dictionary now, but I did not know the meaning, BEISIN. Do you know the meaning?  I also thought it was Beijing in China at first. It almost made me thought that it was made in China. (MAR/31)}

My Boots This is I was walking to change tires on the bank on the way to come back. It was taken with self-timer.  MAP

^{I think I woke up at 5. It was a fine, but when I was on my motorcycle, it was blowing snow like leaves. It was windy day like yesterday. At first, I went to a bookstore, and I bought two language textbooks of NHK. They were German and Chinese, because I bought German CD dictionary last autumn, and I made up my mind to study Chinese and Korean this year last year, so I had to pick one of them up there, so I would have to pick Korean textbook this October. I listened to radio of English of NHK everyday, but I did not lean them with textbook at all from last month, so I wonder if I would study hard them from next month. I wonder if Miss Hermes would go to Germany to see a game of Japan team in the world cup football cup this summer with me like me. And I went to a 100yen shop after the shop. I wanted to get a battery of CR2032 for my PC. It is sold at $3 usually, but it was sold at $1 there, of course, it was made by famous Japanese manufacture. I came back home after noon. (MAR/30)} 

Packed Lunch This lunch was sold at the shop of FamilyMart. It is one of big convenience store chains in Japan.

Today's our city(my links)... Ichinoseki railroad station on March 31, 8:37 a.m. MAP

^{I woke up about at 5:30. I changed winter tire to summer tire of my car on the bank in the morning. I went there with four snow tires and a jack so on at 9 a.m. But it was too blowing wind there, but I was okay in only Tshirt and thin jacket. It was snowing in the afternoon. A housewife of next door came here at 2. (MAR/29)}    

Packed Lunch This is what mom bought at convenience store at 2.4Ukponds, US$4.1. These fried meat are pork. 

Today's our city(my links)... New built school building of the first high school on March 30, 8:12 a.m.  MAP

^{I woke up at 5. It was not a fine, or snowy today. It was rainy from afternoon. Raining with thunderstorm would start from early evening, according to weather reporter, Mr. Joe Zawinul on TV, but it started from 12:30 with hails, I saw dropping of them on the roof. We say panthers are dropping from the sky at that time like that. Hail is the same pronunciation with panther in Japanese. By the way, I sent mom and an old neighbor to a hot spring next to city at 9:30. And I headed for to the north to call at 100yen shop. I came back home at 11. Mom came back home at 4 in the raining. (MAR/28)} 

Ice Cream This is an ice cream that mom bought at convenience store after visiting dad's side ancestors grave.  

Today's our city(my links)... A chilid park of 8 bloks on March 29, 8:45 a.m.  MAP

^{I woke up at 6 o'clock. It was a fine day, but windy day today. My mom was looking for a health insurance card for three hours last night, but she could not fined it, I also was looking for it after breakfast, too. But she found it in her bag at last at 9:30, and I sent her to a clinic at 11 a.m. And we went to a supermarket. I was going to go to a bookstore next to the store while I was waiting for her, but there was a paper on the window of the door, there was a sad news for me there, it said that the bookstore was closed on February 6. It was the bookstore you saw on my blog before I was quite disappointed of that because it was the nearest bookstore for me. Then, I could not get to wait for her who was in the store for a long time for shopping in the comfortable bookstore. I had to wait for her in the hot car until she got back for 40 minutes. I had nothing to do in the car, so I drank a hot coffee that I had from the kitchen despite in the heated car by the sun. We came back home noon, and my older sister and her son came to my house after us soon. They had gone to his high school together, and called at my house on their way home. We had packed lunches together that she bought at supermarket after heating them with a microwave. He brought his video game, Play-station 2, in my house with him, and he stated playing a driving car race with it. I tried it, but I got a slight carsick by that. They went back their home at 3 p.m. (MAR/27)}

Prefectural Hospital This building was built about in 1970, but this hospital is moving to new place next week.  MAP   

Today's our city(my links)... Green Leaves Street on March 28, 8:40 a.m.  MAP 

^{I woke up at 5. I should have ridden motorcycle yesterday because it was fine yesterday but it was cloudy today. I was listening to baroque music on FM radio in futon after waking up. It was my daily joy. I went out today on feet to attend a meeting in neighborhood in the afternoon. I was at the house for two hours. I attended it for the first time, but I knew there were two strangers who I did not know in the meeting. By the way, I knew these days that OH director of Japan baseball team is interested in PC. They said when new PCs are sold at electric shop, he seems to get a new one quickly not to stand it. Of course, he is typing and sending e-mail to his family and friends with mobile phone. When I was a child, I knew only his name as a baseball player. When I read a newspaper, I was sure to look at his article whether he hit a home run or not on sports page every day. He was the greatest home-run king in Japan. (MAR/26)} 

Tohoku Line My motorcycle suddenly broke under the railroad bridge last April when I was riding it on this road.  

Today's our city(my links)... Mt. Sukawa from sports yards on March 27, 8:12 a.m.  MAP

^{I woke up at 6 a.m. It was a fine day, but I was at home all day because I had to touch my PCs. By the way, Becky's mother is Japanese woman. DJ Peter is English, too, but his wife is Japanese, too. Becky is living in Kanagawa Prefecture next to Tokyo. When she crosses the bridge between Tokyo and Kanagawa over the river to go to job, she changes to job mode. But she did not cross the bridge, and when she is in Kanagawa, she is in private mode. (MAR/25)}  

Shinto Shrine They say there are 8,000,000 gods in Japan. There is a solar water heater on next house roof.  

^{I woke up at 3:40 a.m. It was too early for me as I was an early bird. As it was at 6 o'clock, I went to a hut by scooter to take a garbage bag away. And I went to a drugstore to get two boxes of energy drinks to be asked to buy from mom at 11:30 a.m. It was a fine day, but also windy day. By the way, Kamekiti, a turtle was living in the pool in the living room, go this own house for the first time at last these days. He seemed to like it, he was almost at home all day long. It was a used house, No, it was a broken sake bottle. It is called tokkuri in Japanese, but a turtleneck sweater is called "tokkuri sweater" in Japan. I heard Becky has a tortoise in her house, and her farther was English. She with younger sister take care of the tortoise, but I wonder if it has a house like Kamekiti. (MAR/24)}  

Shinto Shrine This shrine is beside a temple of yesterday picture. The goddess name like the sun on the stone. 

^{I woke up at 5:15 this morning, too. I wonder why I woke up at the same time every morning naturally. I heard raining sound from the roof then, so I thought it was a hard work for newspaper deliveryman this morning. But I did not get the sound after that, but it changed to sleeting. I sent my mom and two Buddhism women chorus in neighbors to nearby temple by car at 10 a.m. in the rain. There was a funeral there. Basically I was at home all day long. (MAR/23)} 

Graveyard This is a graveyard of mom's side ancestors where mom and I go to together often, you know well too.

Today's our city(my links)... Maesawa Town from Mt. Tabashine on March 24, 8:30 a.m. MAP

^{I woke up at 5:15 a.m. But I had a hangover by two cups of sake(Japanese rice wine) when I had dinner last night. It is light, but it was very warm in the car because it was warmly day today, so it got to be worse. My mom and I went to two Buddhist temples this morning. At first,　we went to one of two that had mom's side ancestors after visiting mom's woman relatable in hospital. We met a young Buddhist priest coming thereto see us at their graves, and mom was chatting with him there for a few minutes. And we headed for another Buddhist temple for ancestors of dad's side. Today's picture was taken there when we were going back home. Our car called at a convenience store to get two ice creams and two packed lunches for dinner of tonight by her asking. We get back home at noon. (MAR/22)}

At Parking Lot This is our car with mom at the temple of dad’s side ancestors. A white mountain is Mt. Sukawa  MAP

Today's our city(my links)... The Hachiman (Shinto) Shrine on March/23, 8:45 a.m. MAP

^{I woke up at quarter to six this morning. It was a national holiday "Vernal Equinox Day" in Japan today. I also had a day off today as usual, and I was watching the final baseball game of the world championship in the US on TV. And Japan team won to Cuba, 10-6, and they got to be the first world baseball champion team's members. I heard OH director of the team who was the homerun king in Japan was the son of Chinese food restaurant. His parents came to Japan from Taiwan. OH that is his family name means a king. Ichiro means the first son in Japanese. It was the most general boy's name in Japan. OH director was called One chan when he was a player, because his player's number was"1" and his family name was called "One" in Chinese. Ichi that Ichiro has means "1."　Anyway, Japan got to be the number 1 in the world by them. (MAR/21)}

On the Desk There is a white cap (sake) on this new keyboard, it was put there not to push the power button.  

Today's our city(my links)... The Tohoku(northern eastern) Superexpress from the bridge of Mt. Weaving on March/22, 8:10 a.m.  Ichinoseki Station at the right bottom  MAP 

^{I woke up at quarter past five. It was more terrible windy all day long today from morning than yesterday like a typhoon was coming here. It is because a strong low pressure seems to be passing through over northern Japan, according to weather forecast. It was a fine sky, but it was too cold by the blowing outside, and now snowstorm. It was in the early morning, too. By the way, my PC got a shutdown suddenly, and started the PC again automatically like someone pushed on the reset switch. I think it was by a power cut of electricity for just a half second. It was a power cut for just a half second, but it got a recovery in a flash. I think it was by the strong wind cut the electricity of the power line for just a second. I knew a thunderstorm was not good for PC, but I knew that too windy weather was good for PC from the PC accident today. It was too dangerous for PC in storm. So I could type longer than usual today. But it got weak than a few minutes ago, I don't have to seem to finish this blog writhing immediately. By the way, I sent mom to a clinic for her eye at 10, but we went to a drugstore before that. She bought five boxes of energy drinks. And then, I dropped her off at the clinic that would be closed in the near future, and I called at DIY store. I bought a handy pump at 2 UK ponds, $4, because the nozzle of my handy pump that I had been using until now since about 20 years ago seemed to be broken. So I could not send air into a little flat snow tire last month. I was going to push the pump for summer tires in the basement yesterday, I knew it was broken at last. I wanted a nozzle, or a hose of that, but they were not sold there, so I bought the new handy pump. It says it can blow up a balloon, too at the poolside. (MAR/20)}

In the Garden This is my motorcycle. This is when I was cleaning the front brake inside because it was terrible.

Today's our city(my links)... The Landowener Town Street on March/21, 8:40 a.m.  MAP

^{I woke up at 6:30 a.m. It was a fine but terrible windy day today. Strong north wind was blowing all day. I sent mom to the culture center at 8 a.m. and I went there again at 4:30 to pick her up after taking her call. My nephew said yesterday that he came to my house today again, but he did not come here without a call. I would not go to the jazz cafe with him. But it was no problem for me because I wanted to watch the world baseball game in the US on TV. But he should have given me a call even though it was windy day for him who rode a bicycle to come to my house because I was waiting for him even though I wanted to ride a motorcycle to go more countryside. I was watching the game this afternoon. Japan team won to Korea team, and they fight with Cuba team on the final game tomorrow. By the way, I wonder why there are many Korean people in the stadium in the US like that. Japanese people were very small than Korean. I wonder if many Korean people are living in the US. By the way, I rode my motorcycle today after an interval of two weeks before that. It was 17km for a half hour. I happened to see a walking raccoon dog on the big countryside road for the first time. I thought it was cat at first, but when my running motorcycle was approaching to it, I got that it was a raccoon dog. But it seemed to have a rear leg that was hurt. So I might see the wild raccoon dog on the pavement road for the first time.  And I listened to the first voice of a bird that let us know spring has come from the valley in front of my house. It was a bush warbler. I thought it had a great voice. (MAR/19)}  

IBM 2236 This desktop is my skeleton PCs. This used display is 15 CRT. I got it at $5 and postage two years ago.

Today's our city(my links)... The bank of the Iwai River on March/20, 8:36 a.m. Wind was blowing, and carried warm here. Spring will come shortly, won't it? Why don't you try to love? MAP

^{I woke up at 6:30 a.m. this morning. It was warm and a fine this morning, but it turned to cloudy after that. My mom and I went to a nearby temple at 10:30 a.m. to pray my dad's grave. You know, March 21 is Vernal Equinox Day three days later from today. Day and night are of equal length on this day. It is a visit week to grave of our ancestors. It started from today, so we visited to his grave today the first day of that. When we got at there, my sister family was already at his grave. We put some bunch of flowers in front of the grave, and some sweets, and lighted joss sticks to burn and offered incense sticks for him. We came back home together after that at11 a.m. My nephew came to my house after a long time since New Years Day. He seems to be promoted to a higher degree at high school somehow not to be failing an exam, but he said two classmates failed the exam to promote to higher degree. He got the flu at the exam week on last month, but he took the exam and he could not go to the same class from next month, too. He said to me he was interesting with plastic models now. And my woman cousin with my aunt also came to my house by her truck at 11:30 a.m. for the praying week. Mom made a call to Chinese restaurant to ask to order dishes for them after 11:30. But it was Saturday and during the week and lunchtime, so they seemed to be very busy. And he came to my house with seven dishes we had ordered at 12:30 at last. We ate strawberry as our dessert after the lunch and strawberry cake, too. The cousin and aunt went back home at 1 p.m. and my sis family, too at 1:30 p.m. to want to watch TV for nephew at home. He said to me he was interested in a speaker of stereo now, so I said to him there was a famous Jazz cafe BASIE that had a great speaker that was well known all over Japan in this city. I asked him whether he did not know about the cafe. He did not know about it, but I was talking about it, he said he had heard his teacher in junior high school went to the cafe often. I gave my suggestion to him, "If there is not a school rule about that to go into cafe, why don't we go to the cafe together to listen to jazz music with the grate speakers by the master?" The latest visit was in January 1992 to go to the cafe, so I wanted to visit to the store to listen to jazz music like Eisan. The cafe's name was named from Basie who was a really famous band master of the Basie big band. He visited the cafe sometimes during his lifetime when he came to Japan. (MAR/18)}  BASIE

Skeleton PC This is back of PC. I put this black switch of reset on plastic board because I-O panel made space.

^{I woke up at 5 o'clock. It had been raining still then, although, it had started last night. It kept raining until noon, and stopped, and it started cleaning up from 3 p.m. I got wet while I was in futon because my futon was the same with in the middle of the winter and it had been warm by rain. And then I had a runny nose as I wake up, and I took a cold medicine S-tack this morning. Then I felt really sleepy by the medicine, so I took a sleeping for two hours in futon this afternoon. That's why as you know, I was at home all day today. By the way, the radio basic English course 1was the last lesson this morning that I have been listening every morning since last October. We could listen to UK English on that program. It was sad news for me. I bought a textbook of business English course for next month yesterday. I will keep listening to the radio from the next fiscal year, too, as this year whether I can understand it or not. (MAR/17)} 

Skeleton PC This was Fujitsu PC before. But I changed to these three colors LED and a switch put on the tape. 

^{I woke up at 5 this morning, too. It was cloudy today. I sent my mom to middle town at 11 a.m. and I went to a clinic to pick her up after getting up her call from there after 4 p.m. She said her knees have hurt and her back. I was watching a baseball on TV in the living room this after noon, but I also watched another channel, too. Hirosue Ryoko (25) appeared on the TV of Miss Kuroyanagi after a long time. She said she came back TV last August, but I saw her on TV drama from last April to June. She was born and grew up until 14 years old in Kochi. Do you know Kochi? It is the city that Yamauchi Kazutoyo built his castle about 400 years ago. She must watch the historical TV drama every Mondays. She said her father was running his store in Kochi. She said he was good at remembering his store's customers, faces and names of his customers. When his family, off course, with his daughter Ryoko together, went to Italy about 5 years ago, they were taking a walk together, a young woman with a dog was walking to them. But he called her name suddenly, so her daughter Ryoko was really surprised by him. What a coincidence! She was one of his shop customers. She seemed to come to his shop very often when she was a student. But the other way about that, I am not good at remembering human name and face at all.  He must be a good shop manager. (MAR/16)}

Pond I think this pond at valley is for rice field. I took this picture because there is an island in the pond like this. MAP

 Today's our city(my links)... culture center on March/17, 8:40 a.m.  MAP

^{I woke up at 5 o'clock. I think it was a fine or cloudy today. I went to DIY store and 100 yen shop today. By the way, Colin is a ninja like spy, but Erica is ninja like the mutant ninja turtles. Her face is covered with the food anytime. Her favorite cartoon is Ninja Sasuke. He was a little boy yet, but he was a real ninja. But he lost his mom, so he missed his mom sometimes. Anyway, if Erica represented Japan in the Olympic Games as a gymnast about 400 years ago, she must have won the games, and must have got a gold medal. And I think Asada Mao could become a ninja, too. She is a figure skater. If she represented in the Olympic last month, she might have got a gold medal. But she was too young to represent in the game by the Olympic rule, so she could not represent the game. I think she is a contemporary Bodhisattva. I was really thinking her face was like Bodhisattva. I think she is a living Buddha like Dalai Bla-ma 2 in Tibet. He came to India as a refugee by the China Government when he was a child. I have watched the movie Seven Years in Tibet. We would pray her with joining our hands in front of her. We would see the twinkling gold medal on her breast, and her figure on the top of the victory stand with her head surrounded by a halo. But I think she would not prefer what I was saying so, so I have to say about her that she is a pretty fairy on the ice. She is an only 15 years old yet. Erica can skate on water, too, because she is a real ninja. Anybody has never listened to her footsteps so far, because I have never heard somebody listened to her footsteps. Off course, I have never listened to that of hers until now. (MAR/15)ELICA}   

At Rice field These fields are near my house. I like riding it on this road. Erica can ride a horse very well, too.  MAP

Today's our city(my links)... The Upper Bridge from a bank of the Iwai River on March/16, 8:18 a.m.  calm morning. grass on the ground at riverside park started turning to green a littel by littel.  MAP 

^{I woke up at 5:30 this morning. It was snowing when I got out of futon at 7 a.m. and there was a ground covered with powder snow like sugar. It was cold day today, as you know, I was at home all daylong today, too. Colin was born and grew up in Shizuoka Prefecture, and it is really warmly place in Japan the city, she was born, has the head office of Yamaha Motor company, but she likes falling powder snow than yellow pollen. There is a snowing day a year at most there. She opened her mouse to face it for the sky, when it was that day. But now, she cannot open her eyes to the sky that makes yellow pollen fall. By the way, I do not have to send a present for women, because I did not get it nothing from them on St. Valentine Day. (MAR/14)}  

At Garden There are some footprint here. This metal scale was what I got at 100yen shop to sound snow deep.

Today's our city(my links)... Asahi town on March/15, 8:40 a.m. MAP

^{I woke up at 5 a.m. It was windy and cold day today, and it was snowingsometimes. I was at home all day. By the way, I also watched a Japanese historical TV drama last night, but Colin, a girl ninja spy, did not appeared on the drama. I thought she was busy to spy somewhere. Do you know theRainbowMan? He was training in the deep mountain of India, and got to be the RainbowMan by that at last. When he transform himself into the RainbowMan, he is sure to have to repeat a part of the phrase of the Buddhist scriptures himself to become the RainbowMan. So the short phrase was my Buddhist scriptures that I knew at that time. Then I knewthe famous phrase as the real phrase on the actual Buddhist scripture afterthat. On the other hand, Colin received her training in the deep mountain ofKoga, too. She was fighting with pollen of cedars like yellow powder that washer worst enemy in the deep forest of Koga in every spring. Do you know Yamauchi Kazutoyo. By the way, do you know the symbol mark of Mitsubishi?It is called Three Diamonds. His wife made a standing flag on his back, but the mark of Mitsubishi was designed from his family crest. The original design was three leaves of oak. He got to be a load of the castle in Kochi at last, the founder of Mitsubishi was a merchant in Kochi. It is put on my car, too. His wife asked to him last night, "What was the girl name?" "Colin, I think.." "COLIN? That's a strange name!" She also said to him so. Of course, it was not by a man name, I mean, there was not any foreigners in Japan at that time, she might have felt that sound was very strange. But it was not strange even though it was like a boy name, because she was a real ninja spy. I wonder if Japanese mask women, ninja spy Colin wins to MaskMan who really loved women by her sexual weapon in NY. (MAR/13)}  

Footprint Do you know what animal did print this? Colin knows that. She does not leave her footprint anywhere. Anybody have never seen her footprint.

Today's our city(my links)... The Nishiki-town Suitengu(water god) Street on March/14, 8:33 a.m.
Cold! I was thinking here came to warm, but it returnted to the winter again. MAP

^{I woke up at 3:45 a.m. despite Sunday morning today. I slept for only four hours. But the newspaper deliveryman who came to my house at 4o'clock by motorbike would wake up early time than me. The sky was covered with lead-colored clouds all day long like middle of the winter. So I was not in the mood for motorcycle to ride today. I should have ridden it yesterday because it was very warm, but I was busy about my PC setting. The warmest time was at 1 a.m. today, and it was going down, so the coolest time was at 4 p.m. until now today. I saw falling snow after 2 p.m. It was falling for an hour. I could not put up with the cool in this room, and I turned on a kerosene fan heater at last. I was at home all day as usual. By the way, do you know about my PC problem of LAN board? LAN boardis also called Ethernet card. I could download the driver last night, and I copied it on the floppy disk, and when I put the Ethernet card on the PC again, I used the floppy disk to get the driver for the card. It was very easyway than when I did not even know the card's name. And I could not believemy eyes when I went to the kitchen to have a dinner after 6 p.m. last evening. I saw there was a white big envelope that had something on the table. The word of written TBS on it. It stood for "Tokyo Broadcasting System." I mean, I got a present from the broadcasting station by mail. I sent an email to thestation to the radio program to get a present from him. The DJ is Gorge. Mylatest gift by mail was about 6 years ago. It was Swatch of the Tokyo MotorShow from a car magazine. And I got a present from a radio station after aninterval of 18 years in 1988 again. It was from Miho who was living in Paris now on LF. She read my postcard about a banana on my school trip when I was 8 years old on her radio, and she gave me an original music box of hersong as my gift. I wonder how she was living in Paris with her daughter now.I listened to his program on Mondays night, but I did not listen to my name, but he must call my name on his radio. I opened the envelope today becauseit was too early to open. It had a can. I think it was a piggy bank like. Thanksto Gorge that I got it. I think he want to be that it would be filled with a lot of gold coins in the future. (MAR/12)}    

My PCs These PCs are at the side of my desk. The left one is my main PC now, and the right one is my first PC.

Today's our city(my links)... A city office on March/13, 8:16 a.m. MAP

^{I woke up at 5:30 a.m. It was warmly day today. The sky was covered with thin clouds in the daytime. I wanted to ride my motorcycle today, too, but I was busy to have to touch my new old PC, so I could not ride it today after all. I put my old hard disk into the PC, and installed Windows 95 to the PC. And I saw that it was basically okay, especially it was about what the display showed me how many colors it had. It was okay, but it could not connect to the Internet easily. I did not have the driver of the put LAN board already in the PC. So I put my board to connect to the Internet after taking out of the one of my PCs to connect right instead of that. But I had a manual and FD disk of that in the box, and yet it could not connect to the Internet at all. It did not have that easy accident until now. But it found another PC on the line at last, but it could not connect to the Internet, but I did not give it up despite having to type for my blog. And then, it could connect to the Internet at last at 4 p.m. And I was looking for a used LAN board on auction site some times before, and I saw the LAN board I had in the PC by chance. And I knew the name of the board, and I could find the driver of the board at last. I was thinking I had to ask it from the former owner. Then I could download the right driver from the web site. So I did not have to buy it at the site anymore. I was glad that I did not tender for it. I would try to put the board in the PC again, and would try to install the installed driver from the FD I installed. (MAR/11)} 

Chinese Dish Please, help yourself. It was $7, but they did not charge us any money of delivery cost with bike.  MAP

^{I woke up at 3:30 a.m. naturally even though I was not a milk deliveryman. It was a cloudy all day long. It was the death day of my uncle today. He died on this day in 1986 just 20 years ago. He was my mom's older brother. We headed for his grave, but we called at her sister's house before that. My driving car picked her up in front of her house at 10:30 a.m. and we headed for the temple together. Her younger sister said to mom in the car that her one of classmates at elementary school died suddenly. So she had to visit her house after visiting their brother's house. My car stopped at a parking lot of the supermarket on the way to the grave because they wanted to buy a bunch of flowers for him. The car with us got the temple, and we visited his grave to pray his soul rest in peace forever. We visited on this day together every year. And I drove them to his house, and dropped them off, and came back home at 11 a.m. By the way, this is a dish of fried noodle with a chop-suey-like mixture on it. My mom called a nearby Chinese food restaurant for us for lunch. And I took a picture for this delicious dish, because we were rare eaten Chinese food of restaurant. I mean, it is for that I can eat a cup of rice without any side dish with this picture that I am seeing. (MAR/10)}    

Chinese Dish Mom asked to deliver for us three these dishes by phone, and they were delivered with motorbike.

^{I woke up at 5 o'clock. It was a fine weather all day long. As you know, I was at home all day today, too. I got a used RAM by mail for the skeleton PC this morning, and got an old used PC at 3 p.m. too. I paid a deliveryman$14 as the postage. I am touching PC all day these days. Typing a diary in English for my blog is so, too. I can get a PC that I paid money, but anybody does not send me a PC as my present. I was so tired of because I was too waiting for that. I am going to get a latest new PC for free, but I got a too old PC instead of that PC because I could not waiting of that anymore. (MAR/9)}

XL125R I put 3 blocks under the engine to lift the front tire, but it did not leave from the ground, so I put 1on it. 

Today's our city(my links)... The second high school on March/10, 8:37 a.m.  map 

^{I woke up at 5 o'clock. It was I slept for eight hours. My mom said to me when we had a breakfast this morning, "I would like to go to a beauty parlor shop to get a perm this morning, about at 10 a.m. Can you send me there?" I drove her to the shop at 10:30. But she had to draw out her savings from a post office on her way to there before going to the shop. By the way, Colin who is a woman ninja spy still has hay fever this year. I felt strangely for her because she sneezes without pepper these days despite a sexy spy like Bond girl. I know she is having a fit of sneezing without a thick mask in the spring every year. "Bless you." I would not be able to count how many I said it to her in a day. She looks heavy hay fever. She is sure to put glasses like goggles on her pretty face and a mask, too, when she is outside to protect her from pollen despite a sexy girl ninja spy. So she cannot use the best weapon that she has. And she stands out by the figure even though she must not stand out in town as ninja. I mean, it is she looks like just MaskMan in town. So she will be the only human towin MaskMan. I want her to fight with him in NY as a Japanese woman strong ninja. Between you and me, as you know, her weak point is dust and pepper instead of pollen. So she gets strong in rainy day, but she gets weak in the spring.  Anyway, her nose gets pretty red like Rudolph by blowing her nose many times despite a sexy ninja spy. But she had to train hard to become an actual ninja in the deep mountain where it had a lot of cedars that scattered yellow pollen that she hated. She was a strange sexual ninja spy who was sure to put a mask and goggles on in the deep mountain. But she likes playing with turtles at beach, because the mutant turtles are the same job with her. I also put goggles on my face when I ride a motorcycle like her. But she has to put them on her pretty face when she is even walking outside anytime in the spring. So she should be on the back seat of my motorcycle, too. It is not seen strangely. But when she wants to sneeze on it, I am okay, but it is more better she should turn her face toward any sides to avoid the back of my head. It is easy way for her because she is an actual ninja. (MAR/8)}   

XL125R I do not ride it easily even at a part of snowy path, but Rudolph also do not like this path on little snow.  MAP

Today's our city(my links)... an avenue of cherry tree at the side of the bank of the Iwai River on March/9, 8:20 a.m. the bottom of this avenue is the direction for the Upper Bridge, this white building is the citizen pool at right side, and next the green fence for the citizen tennis coat. MAP

^{I woke up at 4:40 a.m. It was a fine, but very windy today. So I felt cold when I was outside. I put a battery on my scooter after charging it for 1 hour. I also saw footprint of the tire of my motorcycle on the ground in the garden then, too. I have a printer. It is a footprinter that prints on the ground. I wrote here that I had become Merchandiskii yesterday, but I want to get to be Yamauchi Kazutoyo, too. He is samurai. The sexual ninja like a spy like Bond girl that I wrote yesterday has Epson printer like me, too. Her name is Colin despite a beautiful girl, because she is an actual ninja. Her hobby is touching PC like me, too, despite ninja. She has a lop top PC. But she has hay fever, too. By the way, I was at home all day today, too. (MAR/7)}  

XL125R This is my motorcycle of Honda. I wrote a line by these tires on the snow like this. It is my footprinter.  MAP

Today's our city(my links)...The steam rocomotive, C58-103, at the side of the culture center on March/8, 8:40 a.m.  MAP 

^{I woke up at just 5 o'clock this morning, and I got out of futon, and when I was walking through the living room, I saw there was a footprint of my motorcycle on the ground in the garden by chance. It was a fine until about 9 a.m. this morning, so the footprint line was so clearly that it went into my eyes. I like looking at footprints of tire of motorcycle that I rode on the soft ground. So I choose an off-road motorcycle that has tires that make a lot of caramel blocked holes on the line to ride. If foxes around here want to make a caramel, it should use that. That's why I do not choose a motorcycle that has on-road tires that do not make a lot of holes in the line on the ground as my footprint to ride. I think it is the same play like we played with mud as a child. I saw footprint of the fox on the snow on the snowy path yesterday, when I went out by my motorcycle for the first time this year. There were no footprint of car or motorbike there, but there were footprints of animals like dots on a line on the snowy path. I had to put mine on it to go forward. My rubber boots ran on the same line with foxes. By the way, basically it was cloudy today, but it was warm day, according to weather report on the Internet. I was at home all day. I did not have anything to do. By the way, when I was watching a Japanese historical TV drama last night, I became a Russian, Marchandiskii, again. She was a really sexual pretty ninja. (MAR/6)}  

Lunch This is a Chinese food packed lunch my mom bought at supermarket at $4.2. We ate it for dinner together.  MAP

Today's our city(my links)...I take a view of the central town of Senmaya from the baseball ground, and the Mt. Murone(895m/2926ft) over there on March/7, 8:13 a.m. MAP

^{I woke up at 9-3 a.m. It was a fine and warm day today. My cousin, mom's niece, came to my home to pick her up by her truck to go to a grave to pray at 8:30 a.m. And they went there soon, and they came back 1 hours later after that. I took a battery of motorcycle from a kitchen to in the basement, because it was warm where mom was there anytime with kerosene stove. Batteries are weak to cold. I added water into the battery to the upper level, and charged it for two hours. They came back home, so we took a rest with a cup of coffee in the living room together. And I broke up the front brake to clean its inside because it was too bad feeling last year. Thanks to the bad feeling brake, I did not want to ride it in cold season. Mom called to a Chinese food restaurant for our order to delivery at 11:30. A deliveryman came to my house with three dishes in the box on motorbike at just noon. We had them on the table of kotatsu for lunch together. She went back home by her truck at12:30. I tried to wake my motorcycle up, I kicked a pedal to start. I could not believe it, but it wake up by an only my kick despite after an interval of three month. I was on it quickly, I started riding it immediately around here. I did not almost feel cold on it, so I rode it on a country road at 25km(16miles) for 50 minutes. I happened to ride it on the snowy path in the mountain, too. But it was really fun! I came back home at 2 p.m. The front brake's feeling got better. (MAR/5)}    

New Mouse This is my new mouse, SPEED, made in China. It gets electricity from USB, but it's boring without it. 

Today's our city(my links)... Genbikei from the Tengu Bridge (over the Iwai River) on March/6, 8:20 a.m.  MAP

^{I woke up at 5:20 a.m. When I woke up, I felt happy because I noticed I did not have a stomachache. We can feel happy that we don't have any illness. By the way, at last early evening, I took a herbal medicine for stomach before dinner at 5:30. I was feeling the stomachache was similar to the stomachache in about 5 years ago. I kept having the stomachache every day for three month because I had an old strong dripped coffee myself. But I could not find a medicine easily to get well, Then I could find the herbal medicine at drugstore at last three month later after that. I felt a little bad yet, but I took the medicine, so I had a pack lunch that mom bought at supermarket with mom together in the living room at 6:30. It had a fried meat, but it went to my weak stomach. When I watched "Forest Gump (1994)" on TV again in the living room after dinner, but I felt my heavy stomach was going to be better a little by little about at that time at 8 p.m. I could go to futon without a almost stomachache at 11 p.m. By the way, basically it was a cloudy, but it was a fine in the early morning. I was at home all day.  (MAR/4)}  

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New Mouse This is my first optical mouse $3.3 on new mouse pad $1for optical mouse, and a new keyboard $3.8.  

^{I woke up at 3:45 a.m. It was too early to wake me up. But I did not feel sleepy, so I was thinking about PC in futon. And I turned on the radio and the bedside PC for the Internet. By the way, I got out of futon, and went to the kitchen and drink a hot water from the pot, but I had a stomachache from then. I did not the reason, but I had a can beer 0.5 liter after a long time last night after taking a bath, but I wonder it was bad for my stomach. I keep having a stomachache now, too. I took a medicine in the morning, but it does not almost get better. By the way, I went to a supermarket by car at 11:30 because I got a call from mom at the supermarket after shopping after the dentist to pick her up to take her to another big supermarket with me. She got into the car, we went to the store for shopping. I bought a PC magazine, and a motorcycle magazine at bookstore in the store. I was reading the magazines until she went back to my car. And then, she went back in the car after my car stopped for 40 minutes at a parking lot because she got lost to come back to the car, and she got some time loss, she said to me so in the car. But she bought a pack lunch in the store to give it to me for dinner with hers. And we left the store, my car got into a self-service gas station to get kerosene. I had a prepaid card of the store, so I could buy it cheaper 5yen a liter than cash price. I put kerosene into the put tank in the boot. It was easy work for me. And we came back home at 1 p.m. I poured kerosene from two plastic tanks into the big steel tank of bath quickly because I saw it almost ran out of it yesterday.  (MAR/3)}   

Torii This is a gateway at the entrance to Shinto shrine. It is new one that was just stood at the end of last year.  MAP

^{I woke up at 5 this morning, too. It was a fine day today. I took a big plastic bag filled with glass bottles, and styrene foams out to the hut to recycle by car at 7 a.m. I was at home all day. My sister came to my house at 2:30, and went back home at 4 p.m. She gave me a cake because tomorrow is a girl day. I was touching old PC to check and test them this morning. I was crazy about touching my PC from last month, so I did not almost learn English except for listening to English radio, but I am going to back to learning English next month again. (MAR/2)}  

Komeri This is a big DIY store that I go to for a shopping often. There was a big dirty snow mountain behind me.  MAP

Today's our city(my links)... i-Port, The Kitakami River Study Interchange Center from the East big Bridge on March/3, 8:38 a.m.  MAP  (the sound is near, but it is not i-Pod)
It also keeps being a fine weather like yesterday. So a day like this, I want to ride a motorcycle...

^{I woke up after quarter past five. Of course, every morning naturally. It was aｌready snowing from when I got up. It was cold day today all day, but it changed raining in the afternoon. I drove mom to a karaoke house at 10 a.m. in the snow. They still decided to go to the house to sing a song yesterday. When I was on my way home, I called at 100yen shop that you saw here yesterday. I happened to see a sponge mop to clean snow on the car there, I grabbed it, two sticks of them, because this winter have much snow than usual winter, so when I visited to the store, there was not any mops. But it was warmly weather these days, so they were left on the shelf for a while after coming them in the store again. Then it was snowy day today, I happened to go into the store, I found it again. I took two of the mops with me to my home for next year. And I put a headphone into the basket. Of course, it is only 100yen, 0.5UK ponds, US$1. It makes me listen to good sound despite 100yen. I bought it for one of my PCs. I came back home at 11 a.m. By the way, I wrote here yesterday that my skeleton PC could not have a enough power to replay DVD smoothly, but I noticed one idea this morning, so I tried it quickly. At first, I tried to uninstall the software of DVD replaying, Power DVD 6 that was in the box of DVD-RW drive, and I installed Power DVD 4 that was with my main PC in 2003. I mean, it was old version of the software. But my idea was correct as I thought. The new version was heavy for the PC to replay on win XP. A movie DVD is replayed smoothly with the lightly version 4. It was one of mine, "Citizen kane (1941)" by Orson Wells. It was his first film. I bought it a couple years ago at $5 at bookstore by chance. It reminds me about an English textbook. According to the guidebook written by Mr. Onoda in 2003, the Hearst Castle was built by the Hearst newspaper family in the 1920's and 30's. A tour guide says, "Our next stop is a visit to Hearst Castle near San Simeon. The fonder of the Hearst newspaper empire built his private estate overlooking the Pacific. It's one of the most ornate places in America. " They said there were buffalo and many other animals. They wonder how many rooms there are. They said "What a great swimming pool!" I did not know about him at all, when I was leaning English with the textbook, but the movie reminded me of the tour of the textbook. By the way, Denis Weaver died at age of 81,and he appeared on the fist film of Steven Spielberg in 1972, too, according to today's newspaper. It is one of my favorite his films. By the way, this picture is when I tried to put this old hard disk of Fujitsu I had got as used one on auction last year, it had windows95. I put it into Hitachi PC this afternoon to test windows 95. (MAR/1)}  

Epson PC This is an old Epson PC(1997). I got it for free last year on auction from a man who lived in next town.   

Today's our city(my links)... Jazz cafe Basie on March/2, 8:28 a.m.
A white building at the end of the street is the first high school. MAP