daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
Photo info: FUJIFILM XF1, 6.4mm, f/1.8, 1/350 sec, ISO400
One of the omiyage that my family brought home for me was this version of Fuchiko. I like it a lot! The various Fuchikos are a lot of fun to take photos of. And if you break a few of them out at a restaurant with friends, it’s usually a good time!
At long last I have finished watching Amachan (あまちゃん), an asadora that aired in 2013. Right now I am enjoying/suffering through my bachelor summer while my family is in Japan for a month, so I have a lot of free time in the evening to spend in front of the TV. So I picked up this drama again at around week 12 (of 26) and finished it yesterday. I really enjoyed it! The characters are pretty funny and the look into the life of a fledgling idol (not sure if it is accurate or not) was interesting. I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t seen it already. It makes me want to visit the seaside of Japan! I miss the ocean so much. 🐠🌊
Last summer while I was in Japan, we went to the stationery store and I saw these cool multi-ink pen components. I think my wife created one but for some reason I didn’t make one. But I do like taking notes using different colored pens and instead of carrying around three pens for a total of three colors, I finally decided to get a multi-ink pen. After a little research I found myself at jetpens.com ordering 2 pen bodies, and 8 inks to load into them. There were a few different brands and models and I went with the Pilot Hi-Tech-C Coleto pen system. For the first pen, I went with a plain clear body, which I filled with a standard set of colors – red, blue, green, violet, but for the other pen I got a light blue body and a brighter set of colors – “Clear Blue”, “Apple Green”, “Baby Pink”, and “Apricot Orange”.
These two pens are AWESOME! I love writing with them. Having all these colors literally at my fingertips makes note-taking a lot more fun and the notes are much more organized. I’m pretty happy with the colors I chose and how they look together on paper, but of course now I want to get a third body for even more color options. It’s fun!
On a side note, I did buy one other plain black pen (you can see it in the picture). It’s a Zebra Sarasa model, with 1mm tip. I love the super-thick strokes it makes. For the multi-ink pens, I went with the thickest available, which is .5mm.
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There are only two situations which will cause me to repeatedly drop f-bombs: When I am pruning our thorny rose bushes, and when I am using iTunes. Always.
I just watched the first three episodes of Mother Game (マザー･ゲーム), a Japanese drama starring Kimura Fumino (木村文乃). It’s about a single, working mother whose son gets invited to a prestigious kindergarten, and the tensions that arise between her and the social elite mothers whose kids already attend. the school. It’s a familiar plot that we have seen before, but Fumino Kimura is so good in this one and the story does look promising. I can’t wait for more subtitles to be created (it’s about 4 episodes behind)!
