Normal

Friday night: all you can eat meat at Amataro.


After that: strolling around ichibangai.


Saturday afternoon: going to the bike shop to fix my bicycle, and encountering an unexpected rope pulling contest at the park.


Going to Machida to shop for camera stuff, and stopping by Ebina on the way back. Of course there is a mini-concert going on.



The trees were swarming with birds. They were loud too.


Sunset, while waiting for the train back to Atsugi.


On the way to the bike shop to pick up my bike.


It wasn't done yet, so I walked around the area. I found some pretty strange stuff, like this panda bear head.

Or this radioactive tree.

Still getting used to my new lens, and still not happy with most of my night shots -_-

Anyway, bike fixed, and I got a protective filter for my new lens. All is well. Going to Nikko tomorrow, and I need to wake up at 6:00. Ouch.

Maintenance and a new toy

Warning! I'm going to talk about work :P

Lately I've been very busy with programming. And not the nice part of the programming, it's the part I like least: maintenance. Programs I wrote a long time ago need fixing and improvement, so I have to look up my old code again and try to figure out what the hell I was thinking when I wrote it. Since I started to work here I wrote a lot of programs that were used by other people. Some programs are no longer used because other people made better programs, but about 5 of them seem to stick, so they need maintenance. This maintenance mainly consists of fixing bugs that were reported during the years. Of course I was always busy, so I just moved it to do the todo list. It seems that it's finally caught up with me... T_T

I'm working on a complicated program called VisNet. It has little to do with the actual speech recognition. It requires a lot of graph theory and hard thinking though, and it really breaks my brain to think about the program and to try and understand the code I wrote a long time ago. It's by far the most difficult program I wrote, but it's also really cool ^_^

Now for something completely different: I got a new toy! New lens arrived this morning. I should hate myself for spending so much money, but I am actually quite happy with it :D It's a Canon 28mm f/1.8 lens, so after including crop factor it becomes a 45mm lens. I haven't made any good pics yet, but I did take a night shot from my balcony, which shows the diaphragm off quite nicely. (look at the lights shining like stars). More later!

Aisu Kokoa desu!

Hier staat in het Japans: "Dit is heerlijke koude chocolademelk. desu". Desu (spreek uit 'dess') is het achtervoegsel dat men gebruikt als je op een beleefde manier praat.