A new floor opened at work this week, bringing a few cool new things including an automatic coffee machine. Our office is now twice as big as it was when I joined and I love finding interesting nooks for focus work.
What can only be described as the helicopter version of a motorcade flew of my office a few times this week. It was the US state visit. Strange thinking about it.
I re-did the AI agent stuff from the other week, and made it considerably simpler/better. More extensible, if you will. Now it outputs a pretty report and I'm delighted with it.
During the week I got some bad news. It wasn’t unexpected, but it did still hurt. But it’s in these moments when our real friends reveal themselves, and we christened a wonderful new bolt-hole I scouted (but hadn’t needed) inches away from my favouite photo-spot of Tokyo tower.
Had a few extremely-basic-yet-coherent conversations in Japanese which was immensely rewarding. I can’t have imagined being able to do this a year ago, but I still would give anything to make faster progress.
At the weekend I woke up bright and early for a trip to the boonies to do some walking and to look at a cave. The cave was just a cave, but the surrounding countryside was beautiful: Autumn is my favourite season in Japan.
This involved a two-hour wait for a bus in an abandoned town. A gang of monkeys made their presence known, and slowly moved in closer and closer to the bus-stop. Luckily the bus arrived before they could make their intentions known.
Dinner in Shinjuku followed by an adventure in nichome and a call with the one and only TC.
Went to Analog market which was less about audio than all of the publicity made it seem. Made for a nice pivot into some overdue shopping in Ginza.
