2007_12_03 MON rainy

Lunch time moved to Pasta place at Tsukiji.
Stayed there about 2 hours.
Ms. O joined.

Then took a subway to Jimbocho.
Checked mailbox.

Then back to home.

2007_12_02 SUN sunny

Left home around 9:30.
Today is Rieko & Taichi's wedding party day.
Very much nice sky day.
At The International House of Japan's garden was so beautiful.
It was very nice wedding party.
Fun and laughed a lot.

After that I dropped by Emiko's parents house.
Without the couple we talked and laughed a lot.

2007_12_01 SAT sunny

Went to Shinagawa in the morning.
Then had lunch at there and moved to Chu's house.
At there, Yuki, her baby, Okuyamas, and Yumiko gathered.
It was fun time to talk at there.

Could back home around 23.

2007_11_30 FRI sunny

Went to Tsuruma around 13.
Lunch and meeting with Shunichi.

Then back to home.
On the way, dropped by barber shop to cut my hair.
Then hospital as usual.

2007_11_29 THU cloudy

It was cold today.
Stayed at home, and could have nice meat lunch box time.

Then went to Azabu-juban for taking DVD.
Then met Takehito at Friday's as usual.

Took a subway to Jinbocho.
Cleaned up some postal stuff.
Mostly a junk.

Then left there around 18, and went to Combo, Omotesando.

After a meeting, went to Nakanishi for drinking.
And moved to Akasaka.
Got drunk a lot today.

2007_11_28 WED sunny

Went to Tsuruma for a meeting first.
Then went to Shinjuku.
Left there around 18.
Dropped by Yurakucho a bit.
Got bread for tomorrow morning.

2007_11_27 TUE cloudy

Woke up around 6:30.
Then went to 3rd floor to get a breakfast.
It was just 7:10 or so, very crowded after it's open at 7.
Had nice breakfast and then did some web works at room.
Checked-out around 10:40.
Got a taxi to Hakuba-ji temple.
At there, it was Sato-san's father's funeral.

Left there around 12:40.
Had lunch time at Akita station.
Took Komachi 20, 14:05 Shinkansen to back home.

During in Shinkansen I had 3 cans beer.
At 18:09 or something, we got Tokyo station.
I got Imahan's supper to get it back home.

At home, with Emiko, we had very nice rich dinner time.

2007_11_26 MON sunny

Went to Shinjuku, then moved to Tsukiji.
Had nice pasta at there and then moved to Haneda airport.
Took JL1265 to get to Akita. Left Haneda was 15:25.

Got Akita was around 16:40.
Took a 16:50 bus to get in downtown Akita.
Checked-in Metropolitan hotel near Akita station.
Walked around there and had nice dinner time at Akita supper place.
During looking around, got a phone call to fix mail software.
I checked web server status too.

Got to sleep around 22:00.

2007_11_25 SUN sunny

Relaxed in the morning.
Made "Welcome Board" for next weekend wedding.

Afternoon, did some DVD edit works.
Then Emiko and I went to Emiko's parents house.
On the way, we dropped by Ginza.
I dropped by Tokyo Central Post Office for getting new year cards.

At Emiko's parents house we had nice Tonyu-nabe.

After getting back from there, DVD was made.
I thought I have done one thing.

2007_11_24 SAT sunny

Woke up around 6:30.
Then went to spa by myself.
Then we had breakfast of breads around 8:30.

Then we checked-out at 10.

Went to Oshidori-kakushi-no-taki.
It was cold though beautiful.

Then moved to Katakura-kan near Suwa-lake.
It was nice spa.

Back to Chino station and returned rent-a-car.
Had nice soba noodle at Sarashina.

Took 14:25 train to back home.
Got Shinjuku around 16:36.
Then we moved to Tokyo station.
Got dinner lunch-box at there each of us.
Then we went back to each house.

We got home around 18.
After taking a dinner, we went to grocery store from 19.

2007_11_23 FRI National Holiday sunny

At 9:10, went to Kiyosumi-shirakawa station for meeting with Yama family.
Four of us headed to Shinjuku by Oedo line.
Then took Azusa train from Shinjuku.
We left Shinjuku at 10:00, then got to Chino station was 12:03.
It was very easy to get a rent-a-car.
Just got off the plat home, next to the home.
It was only 500km drive new car. Nice.

We first went to Yomogiya for having nice hot soba noodles.

Then headed to Suwa-lake.
Turn around there once and then dropped by foot spa at Kanketsusen.
After that dropped by Miso place.
Got some miso at there.

Then headed to accomodation place.
We got there around 16:30.

At 17:30, we went to Indian food place, NAMASTE.
As usual we had very nice dinner time.

We watched "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" DVD at room.

2007_11_22 THU sunny

Went to Ebisu for a dentist.
Then moved to Tsukiji Tomina for having nice Neapolitan Pasta at there.

After returning home, between some works, felt like to clean up apartment.
So about 2 hours, cleaned up my house.

2007_11_21 WED sunny

Went to Shinjuku in the morning.
Stayed there until 20 o'clock.
During staying there, I went to Kinokuya near Takashimaya for getting some mySQL book.
But I couldn't find nice one. And When I was in Shinjuku office,
something appeared in my head. So I tried it.
And it went well.

So I could move from Berkeley DB data to mySQL.
Left there around 20, and got home around 20:45.
I could finish up that work around 23:00.

2007_11_20 TUE sunny

Returned my parents house.
Changed modem of wireless one to non-wireless.
Because I got nice wirelss router the other day.
And it would be saving my money to cable company.
Although, I had to pay like 3,000 yen for changing the modem.
After that NTT came and checked my room's phone.
They changed the cable.

After while, I checked and checked about mySQL.
But couldn't find a nice answer.

Then nice crab arrived from Shimane.
So I was lucky to have nice crab at dinner time.

2007_11_19 MON sunny

No jogging, because I am tired a lot.

Went to Shinjuku in the morning.
Then around lunch time, moved to Futagotamagawa.
At there, first have a lunch at McDonald's.
When I got in Takashimaya, I found nice curry place.
Well, I got only salad McDonald's lunch.
So took a second one at there.

After that walked around Naimen-san's gallery in Takashimaya.
Then had nice coffee time with Naimen-san at coffee shop near the department store.

After that, back to Shinjuku.
Could leave there around 21:30.

2007_11_18 SUN sunny

So today was the day.
Went to Emiko's parents house around 11:15.

Then went to Furuichiba elementary school.
13 o'clcok, we started.
Time was 52 minutes 53 seconds.
It was very nice weather day though, worser than last year.
Last year was 52 miunutes 07 seconds.
Well, because of nice weather, more people than last year.

I felt very bad on my left leg's ankle.
So on the way back to Emiko's parents house, dropped by drug store.

After that, having a cake at Emiko's parent house,
we headed to Rokucho station of Tsukuba Express.
Had Sushi at there and then we moved to Mitsukoshi-mae.
Met Emiko's friends , Ru, her husband and Yuko.
It was nice Italian dinner time at there.
But actually it was our second dinner time, so we both were full on stomach.

2007_11_17 SAT cloudy & sunny

Did 8.45 jogging.

Then headed to Makuhari for seeing Bike exhibit.
I did a mistake.So took a bus from Makuhari-hongo station to Kaihin-Makuhari.
At there, Emiko's sister and her husband joined.
We walked around there and after that had Chinese food for lunch.

After returned from there was 15.
Emiko and I took about 3 hours nap...
We were both tired.

At night, nice phone talking with Toshifumi.

2007_11_16 FRI sunny

This morning, tried to do 11.45 km in the morning.
It was long and took more than 1 hour.

Went to Tsruruma from afternoon.
Did a meeting with Shunichi.

Then back to my parents house.

Hospital.

At night, went to Rashomon at Akebonobashi.
Yakiniku party with MV team.
After that with T, went to a small bar.

2007_11_15 THU sunny

8km again.
It is really tough for me.

Went to Kudanshita at 7:30.
Had breakfast at McDonald's.

Then Jimbocho.
Around 12:45, met Yuki and her child at Kinchisho.
We had nice talk and chatting time at Tsubame grill.

Back to home and left my stuff.
Then went to Hamamatsucho for getting Kenichi Ohmae's signature.
It was a book event and finally I could meet him at there.
Also asked to take a photo with him.

After that went to nice Chinese retaurant with his sister and her friends.

2007_11_14 WED sunny

First time for this year to run 8km in the morning.

Then went to Shinjuku.
Got there around 9:40.
Then moved to Combo around 11am.

Left there around 12.
Headed to Ohmori.

1 hour and a half meeting at there by myself with 3 people.

Then went to Shinjuku.
Could leave there around 20.

Moved to Combo again for bringing some stuff from Ohmori meeting.
Back to apartment was 21:20.

A lot of moving day, today was!

2007_11_13 TUE sunny

5km jogging.

Went to Jinbocho.
OCN internet and phone were setup in the morning.
And also assemble IKEA stuff.
Could setup Wireless router was 14:30.
Becuase it's a bit complicated to set it up by Macintosh.
Most of those stuff are easy for Windows users.
Hmm...

Walked town a bit after that.
Had McDonald's late lunch time.

Then back to home.

Mixed up Udon and Chinese food for dinner.

2007_11_12 MON sunny

5km jogging.

Went to my home town.
Meeting at hospital.

Then called Yasuhiro at 12.
We went to nice pasta place near Tokaichiba.
Very crowded restaurant.
But taste was good.

Back to parents house was 15.
Then did some works.

At night, went to funeral of neighborhood.
Only 65 years old. Life is short.
Then took a train from Chuorinkan to Kiyosumi-shirakawa.

2007_11_11 SUN cloudy

5km jogging in the morning.

Then went to Bic Camera for getting time sale stuff.
Shaver 3,990 yen and Wireless router 4,980 yen.
Asked Emiko to get one more router.
So one I could put those at my parents house.

After that we moved to my parents house.
Stayed a bit and then took my parents car to Sagami river, near Zakaibashi bridge.

At there, Yasuhiro and friends were there.
So we had nice barbecue time at there,although cloudy day though.

Left there around 19.
Back to home and took a train to back to apartment.
Arrived home was 21.

2007_11_10 SAT cloudy and rainy

Stayed at my parent house.
In the morning, no jogging.

At lunch time, went to Yurakucho.
Got refrigerator and microwave.
Then walked to Mistukoshimae.
On the way to get there dropped by Hokkaido food place
at near Tokyo station, Yaesu side. Nice cheese cake and got nice lunch at there.

Then back to home.

At night, Yama family came to our apartment.
We had very nice Nabe party at house.
Relaxed weekend.

2007_11_09 FRI cloudy and rainy

In the morning, walked around Ginza.
Got a phone call from Apple Store was almost lunch time.
Then picked up that and headed to parents house.

With mom, went to Kohoku IKEA for getting some stuff.
Then moved to Jinbocho.
After that picked up Emiko at Toyosu.
Ramen at night at Kiyosumi-shirakawa.

Then back to home.
Left my apartment was 21 though, traffic was bad.
So could get back home was 22:30.
Tired and got to sleep at my parents house.

2007_11_08 THU sunny

Jogging 5km.

Went to Dentist in the morninig.
After that, moved to Yurakucho.
MUJI for checking blind.
Apple Store, Ginza for checking in my machine again.

Then went to Tsukiji.
Pasta lunch with O-san.
Then moved to her house.
Lecturing a bit and then walked back to GInza.
Got a phone call from Apple Store.
And I did a negociation.
It was accepted.
So I only paid for bottom case this time.
Special treat.

Stayed at there a bit.
Then met Emiko and we went back home.

2007_11_07 WED sunny

Jogging has been upgraded to 5km from 3km.
It was very tough and I thought I would be dead.

Shinjuku days.
Had nice Mexican food for lunch time.

Left there around 18.

Then went to Jinbocho.
Moved to Kiba for checking Itoyokado.

Took subway back to home.
Got home was around 20:40.

2007_11_06 TUE rainy

Jogging in the morning.
Went to Combo for uploading contents from 10.

Then moved to Harajuku.
OS-X server setting assist.
Around that time, I had bad sneezing problems on my nose.
Left there around13:30.
Got my parents home around 15.
Took a medicines though I could back to sleep.
Again I uploaded data from home.
Went to hospital.

Around 18:30, Emiko came to home.
Because she had work at Chuorinkan all day today.
After dinner, with my parents and sister,
we watched iPod photos of USA2007 trips.
But it was about 2,400 photos.
We gave up at 1,600 or something.
Only 2/3 of total though took about 1 hour and a half.

Emiko and I came back home around 23.

2007_11_05 MON sunny

Jogging in the morning.

Left home around 7:20.
Arrived at Ohmori around 8.
So got second breakfast at McDonald's.

Then meeting at there with Sato-san.

Left there around 11.

I got in Shinjuku.
Worked at there and could leave there around 19:45.

2007_11_04 SUN sunny

Jogging in the morning.

Went to Apple Store Ginza for asking about sleeping lamp.
It was not come out after returning from them yesterday.
That's why.

Returned home and put PowerBook at home.
Quick lunch with Emiko.
Then I went to my college which I graduated long time ago.

It was nice lecture time of Mr. Kunitsu.
Then great party of gathering that day.

Could get out the college was 17:30.

Arrived home around 19:30.
Got drunk a lot, so went to sleep early.

2007_11_03 SAT sunny

In the morning, did small jogging.
Then went to IKEA.
On the way to get there in the train, it was very crowded.
Because of Tokyo Motor Show 2007.
Quick looking at IKEA and then had Swedish lunch time.

Went to Apple Store Ginza for picking up PowerBook.
Then went to Bic Camera.Emiko got new digital camera.
Then walked at MUJI a bit and back home.

Went to grocery store for getting some foods.

At night, watched this month movie, the FAKERS.
Good for relaxing.

2007_11_02 FRI sunny

Went to Apple store in the morning.
Let them fix right fun problem.
I hope everything's gonna be fine when it fixed up this time.

Then Jinbocho a bit.

Moved to Akasaka.
And set up OS-X for a designer's office.

Left there around 15.
Moved to Omotesando and stayed at Combo a bit.

Back home was earlier than usual.

2007_11_01 THU rainy

In the morning, went to Jinbocho.
Stayed at there until lunch time.
Then moved to Yurakucho.
OCN things.

Then moved to Akasaka for helping out a designer's OS-X setup.
Left there around 18.
Moved to Yurakucho and walked around a bit at MUJI.

Back home and really easy cooking of Chinese food.

2007_10_31 WED sunny

Went to Shinjuku from 9:20.
Worked at there until 18.
Then returned apartment was 18:40.
Then met Shinji near here.
We went to drinking place.

Emiko joined later, and then we went to Denny's.
I was so sleepy from then, so could wake up during talking.

2007_10_30 TUE sunny

Woke up early, like 4am as usual these days.
Left home around 7:45.
Took a taxi to Hatchobori.
Then got to Omotesando was 10:45.
Estimates, invoice and then meeting.

Moved to Ohmori for a meeting.
Then took 16:07 train to back my parents house.
Went to hospital.

2007_10_29 MON sunny

Woke up early in the morning.
Went to Shinjuku and then headed to my parents house.
Did some works at there and then took a car to Narita.
About 1 hour and a half drive was okay.
When I went to the gate, my parents got out from inseide was just 3 minutes or so.
Then left there around 16:50.
But traffic on the way back to home was bad at Odaiba.
So took about 4 hours to get back home.
While getting back, I dropped by service area for taking a nap
.I still have a jet lag.
I took a nap about 1 hour.
Then took around 22:40 train to back home.
Could get back apartment was 23:50.

2007_10_28 SUN sunny

Woke up around 7.
Chatting time with Emiko's parents.
Then had breakfast with everyone.

Took a train from Kamata, because Taichi brought us to there.
Then took a train to Yurakucho.
Went to Apple Store, Ginza and picked up PowerBook.
Then got some brochures at Nissan.

Took a train back apartment.
Did some works and left there around 16:15.

Went to Jinbocho and stayed there about 10 minutes.
Moved to Kaminoge and had nice Chinese dinner time at there with
Emiko's family and Aya.

I got drunk a lot or so?
So stayed at Shibuya station platform and Nagatacho.

2007_10_27 SAT rainy

It was rainning in the morning.
First, went to Yurakucho for picking up my cell phone.
Which had been broken before I left Japan.
Went to Ginza, for reparing at Apple Store.
Then got nice tie at Brooks Brothers.
Then called to Akihabara store for checking my memories which
I also passed to them before my trip is done or not.
They said yes, so I took a JR to Akihabara.

So could picked up everything today.

Then stuff some clothes into my lagguage and headed to Emiko's parents house.
Changed clothes at there and took a car from there to Tsurugaoka Shrine with
Emiko and her relatives.

It was still rainning outside though, Emiko's sister had very nice wedding at inside.
It was first time for me to see Japanese style wedding.
Then we had dinner near the shrine at Nice Soba place.

Took a car back from there to Emiko's house was like 21:30.

We tried to get on 23:16 train to back home though,
it was stopped.

So took back to Emiko's parents house and decided to sleep at there.
I took a beer after bath and before sleep.

2007_10_25-26 THU FRI sunny

After having a breakfast, we left my uncle's house. 9;00.
At first tried to fill it up gas though, they just wanted letting me do amout.
So I filled up only 10 galons.
Then near the rent-a-car place, I went to gas station again.

We got in the airport was like 10:30am.
After while, we tried to change our seats though it was full occupied today.

We could back to Narita was like 16.
Could get out customs was 17:00.
Sent my parents stuff to home and then took a limousine bus to Hakozaki.
We took 17:15 to get there.
But traffic was bad so we got there very late.
Like it was almost 19.

We could back home around 19:15.

Then cleaned up stuff and went to grocery store to get some foods.

2007_10_24 WED sunny

Like 7:50 we got out house.
Then went to TARGET.
We got nice lagguags at there.
Then put some gas with cash on the way to Deniy's.
At Deniy's we got nice breakfast.
I got T-bone steak for breakfast.

Then got in Getty was 10:30.
Took a 11am tour and walked around a bit.
Left there aroudn 14.
And then again, we went to TARGET.
And before that BED and BATH BEYOND.
We got some chocolates at there.

It was very hot day.
Back to home and tried to pack our stuff in new bag.

16:50, left home and headed to Pasadina.
405, 10, 110, every freeway was crowded.
Then we got there around 18:30.
Walked around town and had a little break at Leonido chocolate place.
Met Emiko's friend Naoko at there.
We had very nice Spanish dinner time.

Left there around 21:45.

When we tried to get out from 10 to 405, we could see bad traffic
on the way bridge to 405.
So I took Lincoln Blvd to get back home.
I thought I could get out from Culver Blvd.
But has changed.
I took a short trip on 90 and got off at Centinela.
We could back home around 22:30.

2007_10_23 TUE sunny

After breakfast we headed to Universal Studio.
We got there around 10:30.
We played a lot and had so much fun in the park.
We could leave there around 18:30.
Then headed to Hughes area for getting Marry Calendar's at there.
Got nice lemon pie at there.

2007_10_22 MON sunny

Woke up around 7.
Four of our family went to Greek restaurant place which is my favorite.
Had nice breakfast and then packed stuff into car.
Left around 10.

Took 101 to down to LA.
We dropped by Montreay though, on the way road was crowded.
So we didn't go there this time.

Took couple rest and had nice Omusubi from my cousin San Jose.

We could see dolphins near Ventura or something area at Vista Point.

We tried to take 1 from Oxnard.
But no one were on the road and at Oxnard it smelled so bad.
Because of fire problems at Maribu.
So took a 101 and 405 to back home.

We got there around 18:40.
About 400 miles or more today.

Had nice Ham dinner time at my uncle's house.

2007_10_21 SUN sunny

Woke up around 7.
After breakfast, we did a small walk around.
Then left Sacramento was about 9:50.
Took 80 to San Francisco.
We got there around before noon time.
Of course we took Lombard street.
Walked around Pier and met my second cousin at there.
Had nice lunch time at Neptune's Palace.

Then took a car to Golden Gate Bridge.
It was very crowded at Parking lot though, we could take a nice parking place.
After taking a tons of photos, we headed to San Jose.
It took about more than 1 hour by 101.
Then arrived my cousins house at there.
After having a nice meat loaf dinner time .
I went to bed immediatory.
About 200miles today.

2007_10_20 SAT sunny

Woke up around 6am.
Then we headed to North from 6:10.

Took a 405 and 5 to Sacramento.
Dropped by McDonald's for a breakfast was like 7:20.
It was cold at there, because of mountain area.
And rainy.

Couple time stopped by rest area,
we could get to my cousin's house at Sacramento.
It was very nice neighborhood.
Leaves has just began to change there color.
About 380 miles today.

After a while, Arthur took us to downtown.
It was nice tour to see Capitol at there.

Then returned home, we had very nice chatting time.
We saw our wedding DVD. We laguhed and enjoyed a lot.
About 400miles today.

2007_10_19 FRI sunny

Had nice breakfast of my unlce's one.
I went to LAX with my parents.
Emiko got here by UA890.
Supposed to be here like 10:52 though, thanks to jet stream,
she came down here 9:44.
Parked a car near terminal 6.
\We met her at there.

Then after we returned home, my uncle took us to Johnnie's for
having a nice Pastarami.It is very soft and nice.

Then back to home.

4 of us went to Santa Monica.
Beautiful place, as always.
Emiko got nice gift at Promenade.

We returned to home by highway.
It was rush hour, so it took a time to back.

Then around 18, with my uncle and aunt,
we went to my cousin's place at Ceritus.

It was nice house at my cousin's one.
We had nice time at there.

Then returned home was like 21:45.

2007_10_18 THU sunny

Woke up at 4 o'clock.
Then around 7:30 got out apartment.
My aunt took me to GrandCentral South Park Avenue for
getting on a bus to JFK by taxi.

I took 8:10 bus to JFK.
Everything went smoothly.
At checked-in time, tried to get upgraded my seat from millage use.
I had waited 11, that's 30 minutes before from my flight.
But unfortunatelly I couldn't get one.

My flight number was UA0025.
Although I couldn't get any upgrade,
my seat of economy was little bit wider than usual.
Called it was economy plus.
During 6 hours flight, took 5 dollar salad lunch.
It was nice.

Then I got in LAX was like 14:30.
Then moved to rent-a-car place, dollar.
Everything was smooth and got big car this time.

Got in my uncle's house was 15:10.
Then rested at house.
Relaxed time.

2007_10_17 WED cloudy and sunny

I joggeed again.

Walked up to Metropolitan Museum.
Looked around some photographs and paintings.

Then got little souvenirs.
Put those stuff back to home and then took a subway to Grand Central.
Went to Annie Moore's for having nice burger.
It was nice. Then went to J-crew for getting some stuff for parents-in-law.

MoMA again.
Quite nice to walk around there.
Had nice coffee time at 5th floor.
They have very nice lemon tart.

After a while, I went out.

Got back to J-crew again to get a cashmere sweater for Emiko.

Then back to apartment.

With John we went nice Japanese restaurant nearby.
At Ooki Sushi, it was very nice talking with John.

So everything seemed to be set to tomorrow now.

2007_10_16 TUE sunny

Jogged at the reservoir in the morning.

Went to my friends house.
I thought it was around Hunter college area.
But actually it was on 79th or something.
I walked up about 10 blocks from Hunter college.

Cleaned up her computer.
It took a time, so I stayed there about 5 hours.
Then walked back to apartment.

Took a subway to Brooklyn Bridge.
I walked around there.
I mean, I crossed the bridge.
It was nice view as usual.

Then went to SOHO.
Walked around a bit.

Back home and had salad dinner with my aunt.

Then went to JG Mellon with Marshall.
It was pretty much nice burger place.
Then we moved to German bar place.

I got drunk well.
And could back to apartment was like 23:40.

2007_10_15 MON sunny

Got out apartment around 7:45 with my aunt.
And then we took a bus to downtown.
I got off the bus at 59th street.
Apple Store, and I returned AV cable which I got yesterday.

Took a subway to Spring street.
SOHO, and stayed at Starbucks at there.
WiFi worked well at there.

Then walked around the town and got a black jacket
at Armani Exchange.
It was $145.00 yesterday though, just discounted this morning.
So I was lucky to have that by $99.99.

Back to home and had lunch.

Then went to 85th Post Office to get stamps.

Took a bus again to 55th street.
Then headed to 53rd and got in MoMA.
I have been thinking to be a member since last I came here.
So I joined as a member for MoMA.
Usually it costs about $75 for indivisual.
But I was lucky to have that by $60.
Because I am an international member.

Just looked around paintings at 5th and 4th floor
with a guide tape.

Then walked down fifth to 43rd.
Got in my aunt office.
We walked to West to get in NASDAQ.
My aunt was in a show at there.
It was fun to see TV world.

After that took a bus to cross the street and then back home
with a madision avenue bus.
Befre getting back home, we dropped by grocery store.

After salad dinner night, I went to sleep early in a bed.

I got a phone call from Japan today.

2007_10_14 SUN sunny

Walked down to 86th street.
Withdrawed a money.

Then took a subway to 59th street.
Walked down to Apple store at fifth.
First I got AirPort Express for letting Wifi works in my aunt apartment.
After that I thought I might have cable for connecting with TV.
When I tried to get AirPort Expreee, it was just one people waited in front of us.
But when it came to cable thing, there were long line.
Apple store guy asked me to do purchase with e-mail receipt.
It tooks very fast and nice.
I didn't have to wait in line for second purchase.
It was very nice.

Then took a subway to Union Startion.
From there I walked around town.
And got in SOHO.
I got 501 jeans at there.

Then walked around Prince and Spring street area.

Then move back to 42nd street.
I got airport bus schedule map.
Then went to Brooks Brothers and other brands.

I got some gifts for family at souvenir shop.

It was very big parade held in Fifth Avenue.
Then Nike Town, I got nice +Nike shoes.

I got a lot of stuff in a day.

When I came back home, my aunt friends came down to house.

I could setup AirPort Express easily today.
Now I got Wireless!

2007_10_13 SAT sunny

Early breakfast.
Then left home around 6:15.
Then we took subway to Penn station again.
Took 7:37 train to Stony Brook.
We could meet her this time.
Then we had an hour and a half talking.
Took LIRR to back Manhattan.
We walked to North to see around town.
Times Square, and so on.

Then went to Carnegie Deli.
It was huge cornbeef and pastrami.
So we couldn't have a Cheesecake at there.
So we did a take out.
But it was also big.
So we decided to bring those to LA.
At near my aunt house, we had nice Chinese food.

2007_10_12 FRI cloud & sunny

Before 9am, went to 86th to withdraw a money.
Then 9, Marshall picked us up at the apartment.
We had nice tour of & by his nice guide and his drive.

After the tour, dropped off Yoshi at his restaurant front.

Had lucnh, Pizza time before getting in the museum at 98th street.
Then went to the museum of the city of New York.
Fun to see a baseball histotry at there.

After returned my aunt apartment, I felt like taking a nap.
Took about 2 hours nap before my mother's Japanese dinner time.

2007_10_11 THU cloud then rainy

Went to Penn Station in the morning.
On the way to get there, I got SIM card for US cell phone.
Then we took LIRR to Stony Brook.
We got there around 12:30.
But unfortunatelly we couldn't see the person.
So took a taxi and left some gift and messages to home.

We had pizza near the station.

Then took 14:46 train to back NY.
Rain started, so we took a subway to back home.

2007_10_10 WED cloud and sunny

Woke up around 4:30.
Took a shower and then went to TCAT by picking up Taxi.
I got 5:45 bus to get in Narita.
I got there was 6:45.

When I took a photo at the airport.
Again! I dropped my PC bag.
....

Could check-in like 7am.
So I could get nice seat area which I could let my legs free.

My airplane was UA9679-NH0012 to Chicago.
About 12:30 flight took me to O'hare.

I got in O'hare was 7:30.
And I should have left there at 11am, UA678.
But after boarding, announcement started.
Because of weather in LaGuardia, airplane had to stay in the terminal
in next an hour.
I changed my seat before boarding from isle side to window side.
So I stayed in the plane and took a nap.
Well, airplane left like 13:00.
I had waited about 2 hours at there.
Then I got in New York was 15:50.
Then took a 29 dollar cab to Louise house in Manhattan.

After taking a shower, with my parents and John,
we headed to 32nd street nice Sushi restaurant.
TODAI is nice place which Louise made a reservation for us.
4 of us ate a lot of foods at there.

After that I seperated with them.
Took a bus to 60th street on Madison.
Walked down to 59th on fifth avenue.
Went to Apple store to repair my computer.
Well however I had Pro Care card, it was full this night.
I couldn't show them my PowerBook today.

Back again to Madison and took a bus to my aunt place.

My short time New York life in this year started again.

2007_10_09 TUE

Went to dentist in the morning.
Then moved to Shinjuku.
Left there around 15.
Then got hospital.

Got in Shibuya.
Combo for CMS work.

Left there around 20:30.

I went to bed was 1am or late.
Have to wake up around 4:30 tomorrow morning.

2007_10_08 MON National Holiday

Jogging, just 3km though.

Went Yurakucho in the morning.
Met O at there and she got nice new digital camera.
Then went to her house and lecture time.

Took a walk from Hatchobori to my apartment.
On the way dropped by Tokyo City Air Terminal.
Got some airplane's stuff.

Got in home was 13:30.

After lunch Emiko and I went to Yurakucho.
2nd time for me today.
We got both iPod classic.
Black and Silver.
Emiko's silver seemed to be great.

Then we went to Emiko's house.
Had nice dinner time at there.

After returned home, did some data back up works.

2007_10_07 SUN

It was clear nice day.

Went to Fuchu in the morning.
I got new extra cell phone which works in worldwide.
Then we moved to Tokyu hands Shinjuku.
Got some gifts for my coming travel.

Back to home and took a rest.

Prepared for Wednesday.
Almost packed stuff.

2007_10_06 SAT

Cleaned up house in the morning with Emiko.
Then Emiko went to shopping with her mother, sister and friend.
I stayed at house and waited for water pomp checking.
The checking was finished in 5 minutes.
Then took a nap.
I started to walk.
Headed to Suitengumae.
Then after checking a limousine bus schedule,
went to Ginza by walking.
Pretty much nice time to think with walking.
I walked about 5 km or more today.
Met Emiko at Yurakucho was 17.
Then a bit walking around town, we went to Kinishicho.
At there, met Yama family.
We had nice Vietnum food time at there.

2007_10_05 FRI

I woke up early.
Like 6am, woke up without an alarm clock.
Worked again.
Shinjuku.
Then 14 o'clock at Kamiya-cho.
30 minutes meeting.
Then back to home.
It was 16.
I used Keynote for making a document.
Then hospital.
Back to Tokyo was 19:30.
Walked around Yurakucho area.

2007_10_04 THU

Went to Hatchobori in the morning.
After early but nice hotdog lunch time,
I went to Ohmori.
Meeting about 2 hours with Sato-san at there.
Shibuya.
Did upload files with CMS of client.
It took a time.
Then moved to Shinjuku,.
Tried to get there by subway.
Ginza line and Marunouchi line.
But when we got to Akasaka-mitsuke,
Marunouchi-line stopped because of some troubles on train
at Yotsuya-Sanchome.
So we got taxi.
But very crowded on Shinjuku-street.
We got off taxi at Yotsuya-Yonchome area.
Walked about morea than 5 minutes.
After meeting at Shinjuku, I had nice Italian food time
at Kabukicho with Sato-san.

I could back home was late.
I passed my Morishita station, so I took back subway from Kikukawa.

I had drunk a lot though, had started to work from 23:30.
Could see some future of work was 2am.
I went back to sleep.

2007_10_03 WED

Stayed at house.
Concentrated to working in HTML/CSS.

2007_10_02 TUE

Went to Post Office.
Got bicycle business money from there.
Then went to Shinjuku.
Around 17, left there and had coffee time with Takehito.
I could back home around 19:30.
Exhausted.
But started again my work from 20.
Went to bed around 2am.

2007_10_01 MON

4:30 in the morning, I woke up.
We left house around 5:20.
Then took my parents to Narita Airport.
It was crowded at the departure floor at 7:20.

I left there around 9:30.
Could get back home was 11:30.
Before getting back home, I dropped by hospital.
Then moved to Shinjuku.
Stayed there until 20 o'clock.

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