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December 11th. Nikon EL-NIKKOR 50mm 1:2.8 No. 2037188. I
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December 10th. To eat hot soup to warm up. It was very cold. When it's cold, it's good to eat hot soup to warm up. I had something like oden and vegetable pumpkin soup three times. In addition to that, I also had granola yogurt for my breakfast, Anko mochi for my lunch, and nikuman for my dinner.
Miya-O also seemed to be cold. I worked with her in the air-conditioned room, organizing the bills. All day.
I wasted about 30 minutes, but I should consider myself lucky that I didn't make any worse mistakes.
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December 9th. Grace Clinic. I went to Grace Clinic in Tsukuba City. An abnormality was discovered during a screening test during my health checkup in this time. I will have the test done in the clinic.
The navigation system in my FJ Cruiser is old and data updates are no longer possible. The clinic is new and wasn't included in the navigation data, so I had a bit of trouble finding it.
Today's session ended with an appointment for the test and an explanation of the preparation procedures to be followed two days in advance.
I made a lot of soup with shimeji mushrooms, pumpkin, onion, daikon radish and atsuage.
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December 8th. Canon MP990 printer. My wife made our breakfast. She was going back to Ueda, so I took her to Shimizu Park Station.
I made two servings of sauce yakisoba noodles with plenty of vegetables and ate one serving for my lunch.
I made tofu radish and pumpkin soup. I also made lettuce and tomato salad for my evening meal.
My Canon MP990 printer has outlived its usefulness. I've been using my Canon MP990 printer for about 10 years. It finally broke down and can no longer accept work. I'm planning to disassemble it and dispose of it as trash. I'll sell the unused ink on Yahoo! Auctions.
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December 7th. Mt. Hokyo agein. My wife made our breakfast.
My wife was meeting her best friend at a fruit cafe in Tsukuba, so I dropped her off there. After that, I climbed Mt. Hokyo. I started from the Oda Castle trailhead, and instead of going to the summit, I traversed the Junpei Trail and descended via the Joganji Course along the stream.
My wife and her friend were at Starbucks in Iias. The area around Iias is congested on Sunday afternoons, so it was a bit difficult to pick up my wife on the road side. Safety was our priority, so I went into the parking lot and picked her up.
When I got home, the sunset was beautiful, so I took a picture of Mount Fuji.
I bought the Epson EcoTank A4 Inkjet Multifunction Printer EW-M873T from Amazon 56800 yen.
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December 6th. A flat tire. I made pumpkin and tofu vegetable soup and clam rice onigiri for our breakfast. We also had the apple pie she bought in Ueda.
We went to Mt. Hokyo. From Oda Parking Lot, we took the Hokuto no Michi and the Oda Castle Trail coase to the top. We
had lunch at the top and then took the Oda Castle Trail to descend.
The tire was flat, but the wheel did not touch the ground, so I continued driving and went to a nearby gas station.
I asked to repair the flat tire. Once the repair was completed, I was able to return home safely.
For dinner, We had tenseiro(tempura and soba) at my favorite soba restaurant Kimura.
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December 5th. GODIVA. My wife made our breakfast. She went to her favorite hair salon in Iwai.
I received GODIVA as a year-end gift. I'm so happy. Chocolate prices have gone up a lot, so I don't buy much myself.
I cooked our lunch when she got home in time from the hair salon. It was vegetable soup and clam rice.
We had chicken ramen with lots of vegetables for our evening meal.
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December 4th. A health check-up day. My wife and I went to the General Checkup Center at Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital at 7:30. Today was our annual health check-up day.
I took a photo to commemorate the fact that I was able to come to this changing room without any illness or injury.
I've been getting my annual checkups here for the past 20 years. It's great because they keep all the data from past checkups. They used to finish my chekup after 3:00 PM, but now they finish at 11:30 AM, so I can have lunch at 12:00 PM.
After the checkup, we went to Cafe Posten. The aroma of coffee was soothing.
My wife cooked a chicken dish for our dinner, along with lots of grilled vegetables.
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December 3rd. The bell tower of Saiko-in Temple.I had lettuce, boiled eggs, vegetable soup, atsuage, granola yogurt, the fish fry burger that I bought at Torisen, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
I made kakiage soba for my lunch. The soba is Togakushi soba, but it's dried. The kakiage was bought at Torisen yesterday.
I remembered that there was a large ginkgo tree in front of the bell tower of Saiko-in Temple. The ginkgo tree and the bell tower would be photogenic. I went to see it. Most of the ginkgo leaves had fallen.Next year, I'll try to find a good timing.
My wife was coming back from Ueda, so I went to Shimizu Park Station to pick her up. After that, we went to Coppun Cafe in Moriya and had Thai curry.
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December 2nd. Mount Tsukuba. I had vegetable soup, boiled eggs, lettuce, granola yogurt, cucumber with seaweed vinegar, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
I cut down a fig tree that I could no longer manage. Figs grow quickly. When I get older, it will be difficult to manage. That's why I cut it down.
I had anko sandwich and cafe au lait for my lunch.
I went to Torisen to buy milk. I saw some norimaki sushi. I wanted to eat some. I bought it. And then I had it for my dinner.
I have an unused cable that I think is probably an accessory for an LCD monitor, and I have no plans to use it in the future, so I'm going to get rid of it on Yahoo! Auctions. It's new unused, but I doubt I'll not be able to sell it. I guess there are a lot of useless products like this all over Japan.It then overflows into the house and ends up as garbage to be disposed of.
I sometimes polish my modified lenses. Even if I polish them, the basic performance remains the same. But I still polish them.
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December 1st. A lot of lettuce arrived for free. I had cucumber and wakame seaweed vinegar dish, oden, natto, rice with raw egg on top, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
Miya-O is relaxing and sunbathing on a Futon drying by the window.
I took parts from a junk flash to make a part to secure the bumper of the EOS 5DMk2. I took a photo to record the pin assignment. This is an another remodel.
A lot of lettuce arrived for free. I had lot for my evening meal.
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