Daniel's story

  A cup of coffee at Redwing is always nice.  I came right before closing so I got two cookies for the price of one.  I didn't really need a second cookie, but I ate it.  It is such a nice little cafe.  I am glad they made it through the pandemic. It was closed a long time.   The sidewalk is cleaned up.  I try to make sure it is cleaned because about ten years ago the City tried to make me pay for a claim from someone slipping on the walkway.  I didn't have pictures that is was cleaned, but it may not have been as clean as it should have been.  There used to be a lot more trees that dropped leaves.   They have died and I have removed the trees, so there are less leaves in the fall.   This bank used to have some trees on it.  Also the tenants had thrown yard waste on the hill for ten or twenty years.  One rainy January day all that stuff slid onto the sidewalk.  I have moved the stuff away, and have repl...

  I cleaned up around the apartment today.  I had to fill a full green waste bin, and prepare one for the next day.  I think I have probably a truck load down behind the building.   I want to do this before the weather turns to rainy.   It got up at 5 am and went to Pilates, but I was to tired to stay awake the whole day, so I had a nice two hour nap in the morning before lunch. 

Fumiko came home and made some dinner.   After Pilates and a trip downtown to get finger printed, I stopped and got a green tea muffin and a coffee from fresh flours.  I finished my real estate class, and renewed my license.  I am good to go for a couple of more years.  I  started thinking about which property to sell. I really need to compile this years summary of expenses and income.  I have a general idea, but it needs to be put in one place.  A good start for this years taxes if I start now.   I have been thinking, about how as people age, they think that they have all the abilities that they had when they were younger.  My mother and father are good examples.  Even though my father was in a walker, and was crazy looking, he thought he could drive a car, and could have sex with a woman.  No one would let him drive a car, nor would a woman sleep with him.  He needed to realize that.  My mother believes that sh...

  Mowed the grass and  c leaned up the leaves that were on the ground and in the parking lot.  It probably will need one more time before winter comes.  I should hire someone to power wash and clean the gutters.  Maybe that is a thumbtack activity.   The reward for working was a cup of coffee and a vegi sandwich at the cafe around the corner. 

 Again a no picture day.  Perhaps it is because I went  exercise in the morning, or doing duo lingo, or completing the real estate course.  It was a day rest after a good night dancing at Century ballroom.  

 So no picture day.  I am not sure why.  I went to yoga I knew I had to practice the music for choir so I spent a couple of hours practicing.  I arrived early for practice, so  I stopped by the massage place.  I had an nice massage.   Once I got to practice, I realized that my earlier practice didn't help too much as I still unsure of my notes.   At times I was singing wrong.  Ok, this week I will work on it.  I went to century afterwards.  There was a live band, and I ended up staying to the finish.  A lot of nice dances  

It was the viking disco at the Seattle Swedish club.  I went and did some club dancing.  I wanted to do some partner dancing, but it seemed like that was not what people wanted to do.  I left and  drove by SCT, but it was also very thinly attended. I saw some people I didn't want to dance with, and there were not enough people I wanted to dance with, so I went home.  I was tired anyway.  I got there before the band started playing.  I talked to someone else who got there two hours before the band started.  I am not sure what they did for two hours.  I am still jet lagged from the trip with odd sleeping schedules.  I went to yoga, and the grocery store.  I made a big batch of vegie curry and some nut bread.   I can eat those for a couple of days.   

Back to Seattle in the morning. I was able to go to post office, have a massage, and then go to two different events.  The first one was at century ball room which was a fund raiser for DESC.  Nice dances with several people.  Then I left to go to dance underground for the monthly blues dance.  Very nice dances at the blues, and I didn't get home until after midnight.  A long day but very fun.    

At little bar and food place in Fukuoka Nabe and beer Some grilled vegies Fresh vegies at Hanada airport prior to going home to seattle  At the airport.  Going home today  At hanada airport, a restaurant with  interesting decor Kambucha sparkling tea.  Very nice and served in a champagne glass.  At the bar in Fukuoka.  Fumiko left her phone behind, and we had to go back to get it.  At least we had not taken a taxi at that time.  Nice grilled meat Nabe Breakfast at the hotel. The hotel had a very large public bath.  The hot soaking water feels good both before going to sleep and before going out in the morning.  

The chappeax coffee shop at the Fukuoka symphony building.   Very interesting building with a whole side being covered in trees.  And not just small trees . This is the 13th floor of the building.  View from the top floor  Diagram of building Along the river.    The tree building  An old building in Fukuoka.  It is a culural asset now.   Fumiko old coworker Ito san.  She took us to a resturant with a private room.  It was a very nice lunch.  At the Fukuoka shrine.  There was a big group of German tourists visiting.  My fortune said I need to stay in one place for awhile.  I guess that is what I am going to do for the next seven months, except for the two trips that we have already planned. I will be going to school, but I also will be trying to sell some properties in order to have some more cash and the potential for some more travel.  Back in Saka. We did a visit to the family plot. Keiko is doin...