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October 31st. 75 microns. Remounting different lenses or creating a mount adapter basically involves machining the ring. It's not that difficult if you can accurately carve concentric circles.
Now that I've gotten used to my cutting machine, I can cut more accurately than before. For concentric circles, a difference of about 50 microns can be seen with the naked eye. That's why I want to keep the cutting dimensional error within 100 microns.
Apparently the tolerance for dimensional error in commercially available photographic lenses in Japan is 25 microns. 75 microns is acceptable for my cases. Dimensional errors of 75 microns or less will not affect photography. For non-professional use, they will not be noticeable in the resulting image.
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October 30th. The toilet window. I made gyoza tofu vegetable soup for my breakfast.
The toilet window. One of Miya-O's favorite spots. It's warm in the morning.
I went to the lens factory again today. I made a customized lens hood and remounted a junk lens so it could be used with my digital camera.
I made vegetable and harusame soup, natto, and tamago-kake gohan for my evening meal.
I suddenly had a craving for potato salad, so I made some after evening meal.
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October 29th. Matte black baked paint.. I got a lot of free lettuce from my younger brother. So, lettuce salad is served with every meal.
I've completed a mount conversion adapter for Petri lenses. Test runs were successful. So I disassembled it and baked the necessary parts with a matte black finish.
With regular paint, the paint would melt when you clean the lens surface with alcohol. So I painted it with heat-resistant paint and baked it in my wife's gas oven at 250 degrees Celsius for about 15 minutes. This creates a paint that won't dissolve in alcohol.
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October 28th. L39 mount conversion adapters. I made two servings of sauce yakisoba with lots of vegetables. One for my breakfast and the other for my lunch. I served each with a lettuce salad at each time.
At the same time, I also made curry with lots of pork. I had this for my evening meal.
There is a mount standard for interchangeable photographic lenses called L39. The L stands for Leica. It is a screw mount with a diameter of 39mm. Of course, adapters are sold that convert L39 to a digital camera mount. Many of them are cheap and made in China. I always keep several in stock as they are convenient for remounting lenses extracted from rangefinder cameras.
Recently, I had the opportunity to use this not as a modification material but as a conversion adapter as is. However, none of the ones I had in stock could focus infinity. They were all under-infinite. I had no choice but to adjust it by roughly shaving off about 200 microns. I made it a little over-infinite.
I'm sure many people who bought this Chinese-made cheap mount conversion adapter are putting up with the under-infinity focus.
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October 27th. Mount conversion adapter. I made atsuage, sausage, pieman, green bean, and potato soup. I also had granola yogurt and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
It was nice weather, so I walked to Torisen to do some shopping. I bought a block of pork shoulder.I made vegetable soup with mochi for my lunch.
I made salad, braised pork, and seasoned eggs. I ate them for my evening meal.
I'm making mount adapters to use old Petri lenses with digital cameras. I'm currently working on two types, one for the EOS EF-M mount and one for the Sony E mount.
Mount conversion adapters. You can find adapters for older lenses from major manufacturers such as Nikon, Canon, Minolta, and Asahi by searching online. Many are cheaply made in China and have problems with dimensional accuracy. However, I buy them because they are of sufficient quality for me. However, there are no adapters for lenses from lesser manufacturers such as Petri and Konica. That's why I make my own.
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October 26th. the Aladdin stove. I had grilled atsuage, granola yogurt, apple and potato salad, sliced tomatoes with basil leaves, and half a nikuman for my breakfast.
Miya-O chan won't come out of my futon
It was cold, so I went to the attic storage room to get the Aladdin stove.
In the afternoon, I made a mount adapter for my old Petri lenses, so that I could use them on the Sony A7R III.
I added soba noodles to a soup with vegetables, and atsuage for my evening meal.
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October 25th. frozen Nikuman. In the morning, I attended the Saturday English class. Someone was talking about a croissant specialty store called MomofuQ. I was surprised to find out that such a store had opened nearby, and I'd like to go. But it's closed today.
I baked potatoes in a Dutch oven, served them with sausage and sliced tomatoes, and had tofu and vegetable soup for my lunch.
I made gyoza and vegetable soup, and also had apple and potato salad, sliced tomatoes, and a nikuman for my evening meal. I buy frozen Nikuman at the co-op and keep it in the fridge. All you have to do is defrost it in the microwave and it's ready to eat! It's super easy and nutritionally balanced.
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October 24th. I repaired my tripod. I made a vegetable soup with lots of coriander leaves. I grow the coriander in a pot on my windowsill. I also had cheese toast, ham and eggs, apple, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my berakfast.
In the morning, I attended the monthly meeting of the Photo Kano Club. On the way back, I went to Tsukuba. I did some shopping at Costco. I wanted to eat soba noodles, but Kimura Soba was closed for some reason. I went home and had lunch. It was almost the same as breakfast.
In the afternoon I repaired my tripod. One of my tripods broke. The rubber stopper on the leg was missing. I had stuck the leg into the ground the last time, and it seems to have fallen into the dirt. I made three wooden legs instead of rubber ones and glued them on.
I made tofu and negi soup, apple and potato salad, sliced tomato and basil salad for my evening meal.
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October 23rd. Vegetable soup. It was very cold. Miya-O chan won't come out of my futon.
I made vegetable soup. I use the Peugeot pepper mill for my soup, it tasted different. The pepper aroma is different from before. I wish I had bought the Peugeot pepper mill. I also ｈａｄ inari sweet corn rice with a raw egg on top for my breakfast.
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October 22nd. The Peugeot pepper mill. I made soybeans and onion soup for my breakfast. I also had sweet corn inari rice, natto, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait.
Yesterday, I ordered the Peugeot pepper mill that is smaller than my wife's, 12cm tall for Amazon. It arrived today. I'm using it right away, stuffing it with black pepper.
It was really cold today, so I spent most of the day in an air-conditioned room with my cat.
I received a lot of negi from youger brather. I grilled them with other vegetables and ate them for my evening meal.
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October 21st. Konica Revios. I made minestrone soup for my breakfast. I also had granola yogurt, a Jimanyaki , and cafe au lait.
The maximum temperature is about 17°C. It's getting cold. Miya-O was sitting on my laptop, keeping her belly warm.
I tried combining soba noodles with warm minestrone soup for my lunch.
Konica Revio is an old film camera that my waife's aunt gave me.The included lens is electrically driven, so there is no way to modify it to use it manually. I have no idea to use for the old film camera , so I decided to get rid of it on Yahoo! Auctions
I made sweet corn inari rice, which is rice cooked with chopped boiled aburaage and sweet corn.
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October 20th. Caring for potted plants. I made a stew of konjac, soybeans, and burdock for my breakfast. I also made a salad of grilled broccoli, deep-fried tofu, cabbage, green chili peppers, and tomatoes. And I had granola yogurt and cafe au leit.
In the morning, I pruned, repotted, and rearranged the potted plants. Some new plants joined the group, and some withered and left. This is the first time I've seen a willow tree in this room. My wife used the willow tree in a flower arranging class, but it has now taken root in a vase, so I've potted it up. It's growing well. I had been growing a young zelkova tree I collected from Yasaka Park like a bonsai for 15 years, but this summer I gave it too much water and it died.
I had a nikuman for my lunch. It was a pre-cooked frozen, so I just thawed it and heated it up. I also had fried onion broccoli, apples and cafe au lait.
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October 19th. Improvements to usability. My wife made our breakfast. She back to Ueda City in this morning, so I send to Shimizu kouen station her up.
I have made some improvements to my old lenses based on the previous field test in Ueda. There were`t improving basic performance, these were improvements to usability such as the size of the handle and the diameter of the reinforcement.
I had toast with two kinds of cheese and tomato basil leaves, grilled Atsuage, and a salad of cabbage, wakame seaweed, and beans for my evening meal. I also made cafe au lait.
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October 18th. Her favorite hair salon. I made hot sandwich with cabbage, green pepper, tomato, two kinds of cheese, egg, and ham for our breakfast. My wife made omelette, cabbage tomato salad, and granola yogurt. I also made cafe au lait.
My wife went to her favorite hair salon in Bando City. She will never change hair salons as long as her trusted hairdresser Youko sensei is there, may be.
I edited, posts, and comments on some photos I took the other day for Flickr.
My wife made nikujaga for our evening meal.
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October 17th. The feast of Pelican bread. My wife made our breakfast. I drove her to Moriya City around 8 o'clock.
She went to the Berabou exhibition (Edo Taito Taiga Drama Museum) with her best friend who lives in Moriya City, and also went to the Van Gogh exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
I had salad, a jimanyaki, and cafe au lait for my lunch.
I went to pick up my wife at Moriya Station around 4pm. She bought some Pelican bread in Asakusa. It's her favorite bread. We also bought some white wine and cheese in Moriya.
In the evening, we had the feast of Pelican bread, white wine, cheese, olives, salad, and tofu.
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October 16th. Kuramasu bento and Touge No Kamameshi. I returned to Iwai from Ueda City. My wife and Miya-O also returned with me.
I bought four packs of five Jimanyakis of Fuji aice in Ueda. This is the soul food of Ueda citizens, and everyone knows it and has eaten it. As a food, it is almost the same as the obanyaki from Noboriya in Iwai, but the quality of the anko and skin is twice levels higher. What's more, each one costs 100 yen (tax included). I bought one pack for my younger brother, one for my mother's parents' house, and two for myself.
My wife bought two bento packs from Kuramasu in Ueda. Kuramasu is a liquor store in Ueda City. They make and sell bento boxes and prepared foods 6 days in week. They also serve lunch and have a coffee shop. It's delicious, has a wide variety of dishes and is reasonably priced. So, we use it occasionally.
倉升 Kuramasu 惣菜・弁当販売
Tel 0268-27-3131
長野県上田市中央1丁目6-26(上田駅から294m)
営業時間 月・火・水・木・金・土 09:00 - 18:00
定休日 日・祝日
ランチ営業時間 11:30～14:00 和カフェ14:00～18:00.
We took a break at the Yokokawa Service Area on the Nagano Expressway and had the Kuramusu bento for our lunch.
We bought tree Touge No Kamameshi of Oginoya, two for us one for wife`s father.
Oginoya began selling bento on the premises of Yokokawa Station in 1885.Oginoya began selling bento on the premises of Yokokawa Station in 1885 (second in Japan only to Omiya Station). In 1957, they invented the "Toge no Kamameshi" bento. This has become so popular that it is now sold on other lines, Shinkansen trains, expressways, and more. The line between Yokokawa and Karuizawa on the Usui Pass was subsequently closed. However, the popularity of the Toge no Kamameshi bento has continued to this day.
My wife, her hfather and I had the Touge No Kamameshi for our evening meal.
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October 15th. Chikuhoku village. My wife made breakfast for us.
She went to gymnastics class and yoga class and didn't come back until 3pm.
I picked up my wife's co-op delivery and then went to the Akedouri Tunnel with my cat.
To get from Ueda to Matsumoto, you have to cross a mountain pass somewhere. The Akedouri Tunnel is apparently something that native Ueda people don't like to go through. Apparently it's because it's narrow. So I was curious to see what it was like and what the tunnel was like. Moreover, the oldest tunnel still in use on a national road in Japan is the Akedoushi Tunnel on National Route 143, which was built in 1890. Then I have no choice but to go.
The road from the last settlement to the tunnel is about 6km long. It is narrow and winds many times. The only good view was near the tunnel. The tunnel is narrow, low and short. I encountered about five oncoming vehicles in an hour. For me, it was just an ordinary mountain road so I wasn't worried. However, since it was the scene of a body disposal incident, it is creepy at night. It might be a little scary. Maybe that's why people from Ueda avoid this place.
Next, I wishied to go to Shonarasan Yasumiya Shrine. However, there have been many bear accidents and bear incidents in mounten, so it's dangerous to go there alone. So I stopped in Araya Chikuhoku village at the foot of the shrine, and took some photos araund there.
A villager I met pointed to a nearby stone and said it was Dososhin. At first glance, it was just a stone, but on closer inspection, it appeared to have inscriptions carved into it. Even though the inscriptions could no longer be read, it must have been passed down through the generations as the stone that represented Dososhin. He also pointed to a string plant entangled around a utility pole and told me it was an Akebia. He also pointed to a stringy plant tangled around a utility pole and told me it was an akebia. He also said the cable was fiber optic and came from Ueda city. He had a strong village accent so I had a hard time understanding him. I asked him again and again.
I turned back and had tenpura soba at the roadside station in Aoki Village.
Afterwards, I went to Daihoji Temple and took some photos of the stone arhat statues. I stayed there until sunset before heading home.
My wife made our evening meal.
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October 14th. Shonarasan Yasumiya Shrine. I made cafe au lait. My wife made breakfast for us.
We went to MasAoki Bakery.They open the store at 10 o'clock. People waited for the opening of MasAoki Bakery in the the morning, in Aoki Village Chiisagata gun Nagano Prefecture. I took the photos of the seen with my Steinheil munchen Cassar 1:4.5 f=105mm VL Nr,678458. Yes, I did the test of this lens today.
My wife bought some bread at there. We were going to have them for our lunch.
Then, we went to Shonarasan Yasumiya Shrine on a mountain pass filled with stone statues that we learned about yesterday from reading the sign.
There were an incredible number of stone statues lined up. They ranged in size from a few dozen centimetres to around one metre, and included new ones and ones covered in moss, a mix of Buddhist and Shinto stone statues, a relic from the time when Shinto and Buddhism were syncretised. There were just so many.
I cleaned up a bit, prayed, and then took some photos of each. After photographing around seven statues, two hours had passed. My wife was cold and hungry and couldn't stand it anymore. We turned back and had soba noodles at the roadside station in Aoki Village. The bread we had bought that morning was sent for dinner.
After that, we went to Kokubu Marche to buy some groceries before going home.
My wife made shepherd's pie for our evening meal.
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October 13th. It will be addictive the crossing passes in Nagano. I made cafe au lait. My wife made breakfast for us.
My wife and I went to the Azumino Chihiro Art Museum. This time, we didn't take the highway, but instead went over three mountain passes. There was no toll fee, and it only added 20 minutes to the trip.
From Ueda City, we entered Aoki Village, crossed the first pass, Shunara Pass, and entered Chikuhoku Village.
At the pass, I saw a sign for the Shonara Stone Gods and Buddhas Promenade. I parked my car in the parking and read it carefully.
After a 600m walk up, you reache Shonarasan Yasumiya Shrine, which has over 800 stone gods and Buddha statues and over 1000 wooden statues. There are also apparently many Sessha (auxiliary shrines) and Massha (subsidiary shrines). I was very interested, but decided to pass it on for today and hurry on.
We left Chikuhoku Village and entered Omi Village. While driving on National Route 403, my wife spotted a sign for a Kominnka(old-fashioned) cafe Seiseido. We went back a little and went in. We ordered two set of Vietnamese noodle dish pho, fried spring rolls and blended coffee. The young male owner said he was running the cafe by himself so we would have to wait about 30 minutes for the food to be ready. We said okay and went for a walk.
We crossed the railroad crossing Shinonoi line, took photos of the stone Buddha statues along the road and enjoyed the atmosphere of the old Zenkoji road for a while.
We ordered two set of Vietnamese noodle dish pho, fried spring rolls and blended coffee. The young male owner said he was running the cafe by himself so we would have to wait about 30 minutes for the food to be ready. We said okay and went for a walk.
We crossed the railroad crossing Shinonoi line, took photos of the stone Buddha statues along the road and enjoyed the atmosphere of the old Zenkoji road for a while.
All the food was delicious. The coffee was fragrant and delicious. I can feel the owner's skill and technique in every corner. Plus, it was not expensive.I'll definitely stop by again next time I pass by.
古民家カフェ 精晴堂（せいせいどう）
長野県東筑摩郡麻績村麻３１１８
0263-87-6139 https://seiseido.webnode.jp/
After that, we entered Chikuhoku Village again and crossed two very narrow mountain passes, arriving at the Azumino Chihiro Art Museum in Matsukawa Village around 3:00 p.m. It will be addictive the crossing passes in Nagano. We enjoyed many scenery we couldn't see on the highway. The Azumino Chihiro Art Museum was more interesting than I expected and it took me a long time to fully enjoy it.
Although crossing the mountain pass was appealing, it was already past 4pm so we decided to take the highway on the way back. Instead, the night view from the Obasute parking area was beautiful.
My wife made our evening meal at home.
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October 12th. Utsukushigahara Plateau. My wife made breakfast for us.
My wife and I went to Utsukushigahara Plateau. It was our second time there. There is a road on the plateau, but it is not accessible to regular vehicles.
Last time, we approached from the side where the Utsukushigahara Museum is located. This time, we approached from the opposite side, making a rather long detour. We walked from the parking lot to the center of the plateau and back. It was cloudy, so we couldn't see far.
My wife made sauce yakisoba for our evening meal.
The moonlight made Mount Eboshi look fantastic. However, the photo didn't capture it well.
The Peugeot pepper mill my wife bought on Amazon arrived. It works surprisingly smoothly, and the pepper turns into tiny particles.
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October 11th. Steinheil munchen Cassar 1:4.5 f=105mm VL Nr,678458.My wife made breakfast for us.
My wife and I went to Daihouji.
I conducted a field test of the Steinheil munchen Cassar 1:4.5 f=105mm VL Nr,678458. I bought this in December 2024 for 6060 yen.
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October 10th. Ernemann ERNASTIGMAT 1:6.8 f=10.5cm No574529. My wife made breakfast for us. And she also made the lunch box for my son. My son went to work as usual. She went out for a run.
I conducted a field test of the Ernemann ERNASTIGMAT 1:6.8 f=10.5cm No574529 in the morning. I bought this in November 2024 for 1000 yen.
It has better resolution than the Kodak Anaston f6.3 105mm No. 5349 that I tested yesterday. I shot the same scene and compared them.(6 images on the right)
I met my wife at Katanaya and we had soba together for our lunch. Afterwards, my wife and I drove to Kokubu Marche to buy some groceries.
My wife made our evening meal.
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October 9th. Nissyo Tei is a chinese restaurant in Ueda. My wife made breakfast for us. And she also made the lunch box for my son. My son went to work as usual.
I conducted a field test of the Kodak Anaston f6.3 105mm No. 5349 in the morning. I bought this in September 2023 for 2,300 yen because the OPTIMO No1 Shutter was cool.However, the lens doesn't resolve the image. It remains blurry no matter what I do. All I could do was find a subject that would suit this blurred image. Where?(top three images on the right)
My wife and I went to Nissyo Tei. It is a chinese restaurant in Ueda. My wife had been there before. I had seen a line outside at lunchtime, but it was my first time. We went there around 11:30, so there was no line outside, but we waited about 15 minutes in line inside the restaurant.
My wife and I went to Nissyo Tei. It is a chinese restaurant in Ueda. My wife had been there before. I had seen a line outside at lunchtime, but it was my first time. We went there around 11:30, so there was no line outside, but we waited about 15 minutes in line inside the restaurant.
We had Yakisoba(fried noodles), but this was different from Japanese sauce yakisoba, it was Chinese fried noodles. It was good.This restaurant is famous for its fried noodles, but their other Chinese dishes look delicious too. I'll probably go back soon.
After that, we took a walk around the Ueda castle ruins park. I tested the Vivitar AUTO ZOOM 85-205mm 1:3.8 No. 22442412 from 1970s. I think this zoom lens has relatively good resolution compared to other zoom lenses of the same era.The downside is that it's large and heavy, but that's unavoidable for a lens of this era.
My wife made cabbage rolls for our evening meal.
My son walks about 2km to work. There are two Wagashiyas (Japanese sweets shops) on the way. Of these, he likes Yamazakiya. When he works the night shift, he buys some Japanese sweets before going to work. Sometimes he also buys some on his way home.
Today, he bought 2 types of Kushidango each 3 for us.
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October 8th. Which one looks better on her. T
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October 7th. I'm going to Ueda tomorrow. I toasted bread with tomato, ham and cheese and garnished it with basil leaves for my breakfast. I also had granola yogurt and cafe au lait.
Today I organized the invoices and cleaned up here and there because I'm going to Ueda starting tomorrow.
I made a vegetable and dumpling soup using the soup base of Vietnamese rice noodle pho, and had it for my evening meal.
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October 6th. I repaired the aperture blades. I made curry soba for my breakfast.
I bought the Steinheil munchen Cassar 1:4.5 f=105mm VL Nr,678458 in December 2024 for 6060 yen. I repaired the aperture blades of it. I glued bamboo toothpicks with instant glue and molded them into the same shape. Then I assembled them. To test it out, I took a picture of the scenery from my window at home.
I also won an auction for a Zeiss Icon bellows. Total acquisition cost was 2,760 yen (bid price: 1,320 yen, shipping: 1,440 yen). It was in very good condition and a great purchase. I remounted it to a Sony E-mount.
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October 5th. A suspicious item. I made Charumera for my breakfast
I disassembled the Steinheil munchen Cassar 1:4.5 f=105mm VL and removed the aperture blades. Two blade pins are missing. I think I can repair it with a bamboo toothpick.
In September 2025, I won a lens on Yahoo! Auctions that was engraved with "PLAUBEL&Co. FRANKFURT AV M. ANASTIGMAT Tele-Peconar D.R.G.M." It went for 3,180 yen including shipping. It appears to be an interchangeable lens for the Präzisions-Peco, a folding bedplate camera manufactured by Plaubel after 1913. However, the shutter and rear lens group are missing, making it a junk item. I think it will form an image if I attach the correct rear lens group. Even a fake lens may be able to form an image.
I'm ashamed of myself for getting involved with such a suspicious item. 3,180 yen will either turn into a treasure or be lost as trash.
I had hot sandwich, grilled Atsuage, granola yseult, some apple, and cafe au lait for my lunch.
Miya-O wanted to be close by, so I put a towel on the miscellaneous box on my table. She fit in there.
I had pork curry rice and lettuce and tomato salad for evening meal.
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October 4th. Which one looks better on her. I made a salad with cucumber, tomato, and cabbage, grilled atsuage with wakame seaweed, konjac and soybean stew, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast. I also made a hot sandwich with cabbage, bell peppers, carrots, ham, egg, and cheese. This was for my lunch. I left it standing on a plate on the kitchen window sill to dry.
The sandwich was high in calories. I wasn't hungry by the evening. All I had was salad and vinegared wakame seaweed for my evening meal.
I tried taking some nightscape photos with a HEXANON 1:2.8 f=38mm lens extracted from a junk rangefinder camera, a Konica C-35. But why am I taking photos with this cheap lens!? I sometimes find myself questioning this and feeling frustrated. If I had at least used a manual focus lens for SLR cameras made by various companies from the 1970s, I could have taken better photos. (Maybe.)
Well, it's not interfering with my daily life, so it's probably not an illness or a disability. The only real problem is that my wife tells me, "You should get a lens with better resolution so you can take photos of these spectacular views." When I came across a spectacular view with my wife.
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October 3rd. Modifying two bellows.I woke up late.
I made a salad with cabbage, tomato, tuna, and wakame for my breakfast. I also had granola yogurt and cafe au lait.My oked our evening meal.
I went to my lens factory to continue the work I did yesterday, making fine adjustments to four lenses. I took a few pictures of Miya-O and other things to test out the modified lenes.
I made tomato soba for my lunch. I made the tomato soup with Japanese dashi and a little soy sauce, and I boiled some dried soba noodles and garnished with basil leaves. Super easy and super delicious.
In the afternoon, I worked at a lens factory, simultaneously modifying two bellows. One was a Zeiss Icon bellows, like new, for just 2,760 yen including shipping, a bargain. The other was a NOVOFLEX bellows that came with a Cassar 1:4.5 f=105mm VL, for just 1,560 yen. I modified both of them because they wouldn't work with my digital camera in their current state.
My brother brought lettuce. I made a salad with lettuce and tomato, and grilled chicken for my evening meal.
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October 2nd. The vacuum cleaner specifically for metal cutting dust. Some kiwis in my fridge were overripe and starting to melt, so I added sugar and simmered them to make jam.
I had kiwi yogurt, toast and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
I put the ingredients into my electric bread maker and started it. It was done in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
I usually buy two katsudon bento boxes, one for my younger brother. But today there was only one left. So, I bought one for me.
When cutting metal with my milling machine, lubricating oil is applied during the process, so the cutting dust is covered in oil. If you try to suck it up with a household vacuum cleaner, the oil will adhere to the filter and quickly clog it, posing a risk of fire. Therefore, I made the vacuum cleaner specifically for metal cutting dust. The paper packs used for household vacuum cleaners are placed in a wooden box, and the oily metal dust is collected at here. Then, negative pressure is generated using a regular vacuum cleaner.
My vacuum cleaner suction power seems to be weak today. I changed the paper bag but nothing changed. Oh no, it turns out there's sandpaper chips stuck in the hose.
The four lenses have been renovated. They can now be attached to digital cameras. The photo on the right shows the view from my lens factory. It was taken with this lenses.
When I got home, the bread was baked. It wasn't rising as much as usual. Hawever, it's a little sweet and has a slightly different wheat aroma. My wife said it was probably because you switched from Canadian wheat to domestic wheat.
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October 1st. An appointment system. I made toast with two kinds of cheese and an omelet with potatoes, peppers, onions, cabbage and carrots for my breakfast. I also had Shine Muscat grapes and cafe au lait.
I made curry soba for my breakfast.
I had an appointment with Dr,Yoshiwara today. Until around June, patients could visit Dr,Yoshiwara at any time. However, he changed this.So, I made an appointment after my last time and went home.
He introduced an appointment system. His son, who is also a doctor, has been using the same appointment system for a long time. It seems that the appointment system will be standardized across all his hospitals.
Anyway, I had no abnormal findings this time either. He prescribed a two-month supply of medication. I made an appointment for another two months.
Having a lot of prescription medicines on my hand makes me feel a little happier.
I ate some leftover sauce Yakisoba from yesterday for my lunch.
In the afternoon, I went to the lens factory to repair and renovat some old lenses. It was so hot in the summer that it was difficult to even enter the factory, let alone work there; even with the windows open, the room temperature was over 40°C.
I made curry soba for my evening meal.
