Why/how I'm blogging every day

• I’m blogging for myself, so that I can remember what I did when I look back in however many years.
• I’m blogging for others to see what I’m up to. I know that there are social media platforms for that, but it’s nice to be in control of your own content, its medium, and its presentation. You can’t be banned, and you can’t lose your content if the platform shuts down. Sure, most people have their photos saved separately from the platform, but do they also save their captions?
• I’m trying to post daily because it’s easier to write while recall is easy, and a daily, journal style blog is easier than having to think about what I did over the last week and trying to summarize it succinctly. Because it’s a weekly summary, I also feel more obligated to edit my writing so that it flows better or even makes any sense at all.
• Writing daily is also an easier habit to form and to continue than remembering to write every week.
• I’m using Trello (any note-taking app will do) to write a detailed log of what I did every day, as well as jot down ideas for additional content (like this currect section!).

Lazy Day #2

I got up late again at 1400 and bought breakfast from the closest Lawson. When I got back I asked Elbert to help me book a sushi restaurant for Jack, Cat and I (my brother and sister-in-law) but unfortunately they were closed for the rest of the week for a Japanese festival/custom called Obon. I noticed that quite a few local shops were closed for the same reason too.

The rice really did a number on me because I felt so sleepy that I went back to bed until Jack woke me up at 1800 to go out and eat some dinner. We went to an izakaya place to start, then headed to Jack’s favourite ramen restaurant, Menya Musashi for the main meal. We witnessed an interesting scene when a customer queueing in front of us made a decent fuss¹. When we arrived and were waiting in line, all the staff were joking around with each other and doing that thing at ramen restaurants where they all chant the same thing out loud. After the scene, the atmosphere felt like it changed, and I don’t think I heard them chant anything jovially for the rest of the time that we were there.

When I got home I looked up sushi restaurants to eat at for the next day, and found Sushi Aoki in Ginza. Elbert helped me to get a booking over the phone, which I am extra grateful for because he definitely didn’t seem that comfortable doing it, but that probably won’t stop me from asking him again 😛.

Waking hours

1220–2900