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Lunch Break Birding Webinar

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO1000
 “Webinar” Cedar Park, 2020

Normally I try to take my work breaks away from the computer/office, but there was an birding webinar happening at noon, so I decided to just cut down my work to 10% and give 90% of my attention to the webinar. Just kidding. If it were only that easy! What actually happened is that I worked when the webinar wasn’t as interesting, and then switched over when it got better.

All-in-all, it was a nice birding webinar, with a several nuggets of good and interesting information. For instance, when using binoculars, first look at the bird and then without moving your gaze, bring the binoculars up to your eyes. The idea being that you are just putting the binoculars between your eyes and the bird, rather that looking into the binoculars. It’s a subtle difference, but very helpful! And that bit of info took all of 10 seconds of explanation. Amazing!

I hope you had a nice day. 😊

Evening Bicycle Rides

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4.5, 1/100 sec, ISO250
 “Uphill” Cedar Park, 2020

こんばんは。How’s it going?

Many of you know, but I have been doing a 365 project for a while now, and it kind of connects to this blog in that my daily photo becomes the subject matter. Sometimes, it’s the reverse, where I make a daily blog post and then take a photo. But usually the photos will just be the literal snapshot of something that happened that day, and I’ll add a few words.

Because of this process, my posts tend to follow whatever hobbies I am into at the time and right now, going out for bicycle rides around the neighborhood is something I have more of an interest now since we all are staying at home almost all the time.

It got me thinking of a bicycle ride I went on in 1982 with a group from the YMCA. Two friends and I joined a 9-day bicycle tour that started in San Francisco, and ended at the YMCA in our hometown of Torrance. It was really fun, but surprisingly I hadn’t thought about it too much since then. Maybe I’ll write about my memories of that in another post, as I managed to find some old photos of the trip when I visited my parents last Christmas.

But for now, I’ll just continue with some photos I took on tonight’s ride. 🚲

I hope you had a nice day! またね～

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/100 sec, ISO400
 “Seat and Bags” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/680 sec, ISO200
 “Neighborhood Construction” Cedar Park, 2020

Sunday Baseball and Cat

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO500
 “Anko and Shohei” Cedar Park, 2020

Today Bay and I worked on our DIY project and watched some baseball. You can see in the photo the beginnings of the modular system that Bay designed. So far we have a few flat shelves and a little box that they can hide in and use as a stip to get to the next “level”. It’s coming along!

DIY Project

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/25 sec, ISO3200
 “Designing” Cedar Park, 2020

Bay and I have been working on a project at home: shelves and walkways on our living room wall for the cats to enjoy. The first step was for Bay to design it, and he went used his new skills as a rising sophomore architecture student to create a modular system.

In the photo above, Bay is referencing the designs he created on his laptop. I like this photo because I used to sit the same way when I was a kid. 😊

We’re still working on it, but the project is coming along nicely!

Snapshots From the Evening Ride

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/100 sec, ISO1000
 “Reflection” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/1800 sec, ISO200
 “Hike & Bike” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/1400 sec, ISO200
 “Bicycle Silhouette” Cedar Park, 2020
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5, 1/2200 sec, ISO200
 “Goodbye Sun” Cedar Park, 2020

Indian Food at Home

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 19mm, f/2.5, 1/100 sec, ISO2000
 “Indian Dinner” Cedar Park, 2020

Chicken Tikka Masala, Saag Paneer, and Pani Puri to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Yum!

During the COVID-19 situation we don’t usually have people over, but for an event like this we set up the deck with socially-distanced seating so Mariko and two of her friends could enjoy some time together.