Christmas Party

This morning I woke up at 5:30, sneezing and congested. Since I believe that Big D had similar symptoms this weekend, I suspect that I’m getting sick. I feel almost normal so it could just be allergies, although that would be ridiculous considering it was -7 outside at the time.

The Christmas Party at work went well. I actually enjoyed the first session, and the second session wasn’t painful. We went out for noodles afterwards. Takashi told us that the relative height at which you clink glasses is important in a Japanese toast. I didn’t know that. Before eating, we went to Toys-R-Us for me to buy hanafuda cards, but sadly I couldn’t find any. Next I will try looking at Daiso, and if I get a chance I’ll check out Hard Off, and if I still can’t find them I might just order them online.

I did some programming work this weekend, finally. But I ran into the snag of outdated libraries, and after I updated them, I couldn’t get at least one of them to work, so my code was broken. I’m not really motivated to put a lot of effort into fixing it today, so it might be Thursday before I get back to working on it. We’ll see though. When I realized that I was discouraged, I tried looking into playing a video game, and just couldn’t bring myself to commit. I did finally do the challenge in the idle game that makes 24 hour resets most profitable, so my time in that game should be reduced significantly.

After talking to my parents last night, I have an idea for my winter vacation. I might do the bus tour starting in Takayama and going up to Kanazawa. It’s too bad that I’ll miss out on the famous garden, but thinking about it that ship has probably already sailed considering the time that I have left in Japan.