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Clouds around Fuji appear and shift so rapidly

Even 10 second is not enough margin

Good shot!

Doing it properly, customer too.

Irritating for me was not being able to get the jobs to move to Tokushima from Kochi - it was always life, not job.

Still I could live in Kochi, and in Shikoku (once in Tokushima before 平成), and LIVE I did.

Just constant reminders of aspects of human nature.

No, Cyprus, not Crete,

Sorry!

fund the costs, Japan will issue an additional 31.9 trillion yen in government bonds under the second supplementary budget for the current fiscal year ending in March 2021, according to the draft.

That will push new bond issuance for the current fiscal year to a record 90 trillion yen. When including issuance to roll over debt maturing during the year, Japan's total issuance for the year would hit a record, exceeding 200 trillion yen and further straining the country's already tattered finances.

There are always the PostOffice savings accounts - lots of cash there. Well, it happened in Crete and Iceland

But Japan is different, and the Japan scenario in the end still works.

Ordinary people’s tax and 年金 could well change up and down respectively though.

Glad I don’t need to take that thing apart and put it together in the dark.

Too many purple switches too.

hurting the feelings and dignity of the Chinese people

Which Chinese ‘people’ is that?

More than one if the Beijing lot would actually listen to themselves, Norishige lot that they are.

Exam question wording not withstanding, letting candidates write may turn up a few surprises for critics and supporters both.

Already happening ’Educations ain’t educations’, anyway.

Prac and tactile stuff are not like memorizing or applying knowledge, ideas, principles theories and vocabulary items.

Or as one teacher I know complained, typing is slower than speaking, and voice to screen still ends up as gibberish.

Still some work to be done there.

Anyway, the new education world is yet to produce all its new unthoughtof effects yet.

Unsubstantiated or wildly selective reporting, rumor, blatant lies.

Basically anything from News Corp/Fox, most politicians, infotainment

Oddly propaganda is not always fake news, also selective or biased opinion spun into shape.

Usually I realise I do have a life, while many others seem to have less of a life.

FB groups can be different, depending on the group. I am in 2 or 3 professional groups (not really active) and 2 hobby-type groups (art- a bit active). The professional groups offer pressure, the hobby ones show quite a few people doing something with a passion.

Unsaid preface is if any second COVID strain or simple winter don’t bowl a goodly (ie. a curve ball)

Yeah, a bit of threshing going on.

Though some people and societies too, needed it, I think that for a generation or so social relations among people become more complex - online and proximal both.

Um, school or local Education Committee should think entrepreneurially-

Interesting to think of all the seeds and stuff you high actually make it to and can thrive in those dust bowl school sports grounds

Aust & NZ - 2 island countries

Japan is too (Taiwan too for that matter)

Easier than continentals, all things considered, besides Japan’s laggardly COVID strategy ( and China having something bellicose to say if Taiwan gets included in the flight club and they don’t).

Work and non-work blending - oh well!

No commute - yay!

No pants necessary - hmm!

Beautiful and atmospheric is the point - we get that.

Not sure that getting out to walk around the beautiful countryside riding fluid emotions is the right message just now.

Winter is coming

Once drove a taxi picking up George at Sydney airport. Half way between bearded and clean shaven, didn’t recognize him, even with his Scouse.

Nothing pretentious there, easy conversation which may have been a cab-ride holiday for him.

Even got a big tip from the minder at the other end at Sydney Uni International House.

Probably pretty different if I had recognized him, which I did the next night on the news.

Get ready for finding people passed away days/weeks before.

Already been happening with old people.

The scary thing is all the single occupant apartments - millions all over Japanese cities.

individuals staying home and online ostensibly their only outside connection.

Restoration of Royal Prerogative?? Looks like this in the headline

First time since 1640, but then it ended badly, especially for the last Charles.

Sometimes Australia’s story is that of behavour by morons and consequent socio-political knee-jerk responses by institutions, COVID-19 NOT withstanding.

France is exempted but French Polynesia and New Caledonia are not!

And New Zealand?!

Whatever!

Institutional xenophobia (maybe not) or attention to post item handling practice?

if attention to levels of COVID, some surprises on the country list.

Just a problem now?

Shares in Ito-en anyone?

One aspect of current COVID-19 conditions is some otherwise flip-floppier governments discovering their balls, and a generation or two experiencing the effects for the first time.

And it’s still early days

So don’t cough, or it’s an ankle bracelet for you - even proposing that in Australia!

Maybe data from before COVID

Kochi has highest number of beds per capita.

Otherwise, after all this is over, somewhere to go for a walk - beach, forest, un-concreted river, or all three

Japan lives by booms and herds

70s Oil Shock and toilet paper; 1988 taifuns and ’taimai’.

Glad washlets pervade now, but so still does supply built around shopping for the day rather than week or month.

So it begins ...

Yet, with these two East Asian players it is more like So it continues ...

As coronavirus spikes, so does global instability

So does paranoia, impatience, emotive responses - at local and macro levels

Advice: if a routine or normalcy is possible for you, stick with it and you can avoid the hypertension and cardiovascular causes of death before the big bad virus gets you.

Looks like a YouTube video of what the models look like and what normal people look like.