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The way to define current reference string for your own LaTeX environment

2009-06-19T16:45:00.001+09:00

That is, the way to define output style of \ref{foo} when \label{foo} is within your own environment.

\newcounter{sidebar}[chapter]
\renewcommand{\thesidebar}{\thechapter.\arabic{sidebar}}
\newenvironment{sidebar}{%
 \refstepcounter{sidebar}}{%
 ...
...}

\refstepcounter is essential. It is this command that defines the current reference string which is available as \thesidebar command ('sidebar' is that in 'thesidebar'). All you have to do is renewcommand this \thesidebar command to your favorite style like above example.

2009-05-25T11:48:00.003+09:00

When you get below error from GitHub,

You can't push to git://github.com/user/repo.git
Use git@github.com:user/repo.git

and you are supposed to be the owner of that repo clone, you must have cloned (or checked out) the 'Public Clone URL' instead of 'Your Clone URL'. For me, the instant cure is to open .git/config file with editor and rewrite the url in [remote "origin"] entry.

2008-12-08T00:30:00.000+09:00

We are visiting Taiwan for the first time in a couple of years. For these years, we couldn't have been here since we got a baby. Thus, we have an infant in this trip. It's less of a problem so far. Both the airline and the hotel have given us a great amount of cares. I didn't know the airplane has places for attaching cradles.

But the hotel room we booked is not allowed to use the crib, and the baby fell off the bed. Of cause it's not the hotel's fault. The stuffs are very honest.

Today I had a rush visit to Ping-Ling. Ping-Ling is one of the production center of chinese tea, and is located in the contryside of Taipei. It's too far to go with baby. So I went alone. My spouse and the baby spent the first day of Taipei lokking around this appealing city.

Playing with a baby

2008-11-27T22:13:00.001+09:00

It's becoming more and more fun as he grows gradually.

envy

2008-11-26T22:58:00.001+09:00

I realize that I'm easily envious of someone. I've even been envious of someone because he could make me felt envious. Sometime, an envy brought me some degree of motivation. But those motivation never caused a real effort. I should restrict envy to myself or keep away from greatness. Apparently, both of these approachs must be wrong.

Math is hard

2008-11-25T22:48:00.001+09:00

Yes. But no. To do math is easy. To achieve math is hard. And, in that sense, anything is hard. Especially, commision is hard, Even to do it inevitably depends on someone else's resource. What can I do? Do anyway, I know.

Peace as Tuna

2008-11-24T22:11:00.003+09:00

Rain. We are in trouble with drying diapers.

I hard a radio news this morning that reports a local TV actor catch a 300kg bluefin tuna. It's not the politics or economics that was provided as the top news of today. Instead, it was the story of a man and a 600lb fish. Cool. In Japan, it seems that there's no more serious news than tuna, even when the dreadful financial crisis or wars around the world. Sure, we love it. And you should invest in this crazy peaceful country, NOW.

Salt boom

2008-11-23T22:50:00.002+09:00

My friend gave us different cristallized salts from around the world.

One of these has a round shape. Two are pink. Others have also their own characteristics in appearance. I and my spouse have tryed all of them at once, though, unfortunately, I can hardly distinguish their taste. But we get a lot of pleasure from the suprise gift. Diversity is nice.

Troubled economies

2008-11-22T23:20:00.004+09:00

Today, our favourite bakery closed their shop. The reason of the decision, they said, was the rising cost. It's sad. And not only sad, I flet tears. They had continued their business for decades. Closing a shop is an event of the economies. Sure, it's the matter of economies, especially the unbalenced economies of these days.

But rather, it's a life too. Local shop is definitely not a matter of just the finance. It's the real economies. That's why I felt tears.

2008-07-09T22:42:00.001+09:00

Car drivers must not honk a horn at walkers and cyclists, at least in the narrow streets. People shuldn't drive cars by themselves through the center of Tokyo in the first place.

Of caurse, however, may taxi drivers in Tokyo, all of them drive recklessly, be disqulified forever.

That is, the police must enforce the campaing against moron drivers. Such a car driver is almost an unconscious murderer.

2008-07-08T22:22:00.001+09:00

My spouse said that she hasn't known that I can come home before 18:00 from the office.

Penderecki and Messiaen

2008-06-25T23:38:00.001+09:00

I definitely know that I cannot afford to enjoy concert for now. But today was the day of Krzysztof Penderecki, a famous Polish composer, conducted the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Ueno. They performed his own Horn concerto, which was the first performance in Japan. There's no choice except participating in that. Almost the only title that I usually listen to his works is the Viola concerto, though, I pretty like it. I think that his music has rather predictable strain but remains modern sound. Rational as well as passionate, while many of the comtemporaly works are mostly rational but sometimes passionate. His new Horn concerto might be much of the mere idea, however. I felt that it's still a great work but could be more concise like his Sinfonietta per archi. The best performance of tonight must be the 'Interstellar Call' of Olivier Messiaen, which was played by Radvan Vlatkovic, the horn solist in the main program, as an encore and an eulogy of Kaoru Chiba died this week.

2008-05-29T19:59:00.000+09:00

I'd better write diary before I go home. But how?

Oktoberfest 2008

2008-05-28T21:18:00.002+09:00

I got a half-day paid vacation to go to drink beer at the Oktoberfest in Hibiya. Of course it was just half true. I did need vacation this afternoon. However, I actually drank beer, a lot.

Friend's house

2008-05-25T22:14:00.001+09:00

I visited my friend's house which has been built just a month ago. I felt the house so nice that I believed it will give his family a comfortable space for their lives. I think its somehow cute exterior represents a lot about him.

However, it's slightly far from my home. I'm becoming feeling lonely as some friends has decided to live in the reageon beyond sburbs.

Bread-maker

2008-05-24T21:42:00.002+09:00

We went to Akihabara to buy a bread maker. It's almost a complete bakery equipment just downsized for household use.

It automatically kneads, raises and bakes a dough all by itself. Setting a dough and yeast, you will get a fresh bread in a few hours.

It can also make mochi, a sticky rice cake. But I'm usually fed up with mochi. It would be nice if once in a while.

2008-05-23T23:05:00.001+09:00

I've been working hard for this week, but the work yields less output. There's no output without input. Thus, I need input. And time, I need, to get the input by my own hand. Constructing and exposing the output is another matter.

Guests

2008-05-18T22:35:00.001+09:00

We had a lot of guests for the past months. I appreciate that. Today's guests were my spouse's friends, one of whom I've never even met before. Happily, he was a good guy. They gave the baby bunch of cloth diapers and pretty wears.

2008-05-16T22:06:00.001+09:00

Sushi is great.

2008-05-15T20:48:00.001+09:00

I seemed to be tired a lot.

Def Lappard is coming to Japan

2008-05-14T22:06:00.001+09:00

Def Leppard seems to come to Japan near future. I've loved their music for around ten years. Even the local radio show plays their tune lately. Great.
But I won't go to their concert, because it's planed to be performed with Whitesnake. Of course I'm not disliking Whitesnake. I'm just disappointed. I can hardly imagine the purpose of the concert but for earning money.

Stain of diaper

2008-05-12T22:22:00.001+09:00

Stains of diapers can hardly be removed for these days. Thus I began to use chemical soap.

Distraction

2008-05-11T20:00:00.001+09:00

I seemed to lose energy to offering hospitality yesterday. Today I've wanted to do nothing for a whole day. Thus I did cook lunch and dinner. Cooking is the best distraction for today.

2nd Okuizome

2008-05-10T22:12:00.001+09:00

Both our parents came to see the baby today. We visited the local shrine praying for his health and growth. And we had early dinner at the home It was sort of like second Okuizome. Any grand parents are always want to participate any events of grandchilds.

To become a Lisper

2008-05-07T22:16:00.001+09:00

For those holidays, I've been developping a tiny implementation of Lisp during daytimes and watching Star Wars during nights. To become a Jedi, you are required to be able to build your own light saver. In the same say, I realized, that to become a true Lisper you might as well be able to implemtent your own Lisp by yourself. So I try to become a true Lisper someday. May the lambda be with you :)

Okuizome

2008-04-29T22:35:00.000+09:00

The last Saturday was the 100th day aniversary of our baby. So the next day we privately had a japanese traditional ceremony called Okuizome, means 'first meal of ones life.' Babies of course are not able to eat any meal in just 100 days old. So he's just pretending to eat.

Bumbo

2008-04-26T20:49:00.001+09:00

My spouse's friends came to see our baby this afternoon. They gave him a Bumbo, which is a peculiar chair for baby.

In the picture, he seems not to like sitting in Bumbo. But he was just starved at that time. He really likes it. Thanks for the nice present. It will also give us ease.

2008-04-25T23:02:00.001+09:00

I should hold her in esteem, as she is so strict on her job. But at the same time I am worried about her condition. She deserves a reasonable work now.

Lucky circumstance

2008-04-24T23:10:00.002+09:00

I could join two CS study meatings this week. There were a lot of other seminars in which I alone was able to participate in for just a month around Tokyo. I'm fortunate to live in this city. If my son want to go to college in the suburbs in the future, I will be against him. Because I am the man who regrets choosing a suburban college.

2008-04-21T22:35:00.001+09:00

Some people tend to think education to be didactic. For example. they manage to extract a good lesson from a picture book. Also, they respect effort rather than effeciency. In my opinion, it's often the case with a lot of teachers for an elementary school. That is why I dislike most of elementaty school teachers.

Citric Acid Juice

2008-04-20T22:54:00.002+09:00

I was going to go to Make:Tokyo, but couldn't because my baby got fussy. He was so excited this weekend. It's almost an addiction of a hug. Of course, that's OK with me. But my spouse looks physically tired. So I bought her ume (japanese apricot) and perilla juice that is known to be citric acid rich.

As for me, I was finding time to implement a tiny Lisp interpreter for this weekend.

About Cloth Diaper

2008-04-19T22:28:00.001+09:00

I use Fuzzi Bunz in combination with japanese traditional bleached cotton cloth diaper. It's decent but I think I could do much better.

By the way, does Huggies have cloth diaper products? Ether way, however, it doesn't matter, because Huggies is not available in Japan.

Party

2008-04-18T22:12:00.001+09:00

Our department had celebratory dinner togather. I think we were in a good mood. I wouldn't mind such a party at all. The only fault was that the working student was quite dense.

cranky

2008-04-17T22:59:00.001+09:00

My baby is crying and laughing and screeming if I stop holding him. He never get to sleep by any means. Thus, this is all I can write today.

The new CD player ought to make me get up early.

2008-04-16T22:12:00.001+09:00

I'm sure it was because of the broken CD player that I've been failing to get up early these days. I cannot spend early morning withoug music! So the purchase of a new CD player was definately blameless.

However, I bought this secondhands (and lower-end model than I used to use) player almost ten days ago. Since then, I could get up early only once, today. Was it just a waste of money?

The BOF of people concerned with computer books

2008-04-15T22:27:00.002+09:00

Last evening I joined a discussion among people involved in computer books in several publishers. It's much more like the brown-bag meeting or the BOF. Many sales people including the book store clerk also participated. It was very enlightening to exchange views from variety of angles.

In the computer books industory in Japan, we hadn't had a chance to talk about the way of buisiness with other publishers, at least in the editing field. I think we can do a lot of things than to keep our work secret as ancient (maybe just one or two decades ago) publishers used to do. I felt that people took part in the BOF yesterday have the same mind.

Illitating japanese journalism

2008-04-14T17:46:00.003+09:00

I think mass media in Japan have been making a huge blunder to cover the East Asian topics without slant for decades. They even didn't do a live of the Dalai Lama's press conference at last Thursday in the hotel near Narita Airport. Some TV station seemed to report blandly about the press conference on the evening news shows, but the public broadcaster NHK seemed to have almost neglected the press conference itself. I heard that a shameless reporter in a news show have expressed regret at the accommodation of the room the Dalai Lama stayed. I can't figure out the reason of such a sheer nonsense -- I've stopped watching TV at all.

General japanese newspapers also treat the press conference too lightly, in comparison with abroad papers such as New York Times and Herald Tribune. It seems that they just wrote their articles marely based on the short cover from Jiji Press.

I tried to translate the Jiji press's poor report about this press conference of the Dalai Lama. Words of the Dalai Lama are not his own English statements but translated from the japanese article by me.

The Dalai Lama, stopped over in Japan on his way to US, said "we shouldn't perpetrate violence," on the disturbance of the torch relay for the Beijing Olympics in cities such as London and Paris, and called for an end to the violence. He also said that he's still upholding the Olympics holding in China and he believes China is eligible host country, and emphasized he never changes his mind by the riots in Tibet.

Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama demanded the China's government to taka a pragmatic way of resolusion rather than the violent oppresion, saying "In China there occurs the same fray in the Hsinchiang Uighur autonomous region as in Tibet. It's time for China to accept the reality." He claimed more transparent information about the situation in Tibet and the necessity of building a 'society with harmony' based on the trust and the respect.

'Society with harmony' is the slogan of the President Hu Jintao too. It means the Dalai Lama made a demand of the slogan to be pervasive through Tibet.

At the same time, he condemned that the riot is just "the representation of indignations smoldering in Tibetan mind. It's not an independence movement." "We would be content with being under China in the diplomacy and the military. What we want is the autonomy in Buddism, culture, education, and so on." He refuted the idea of China that the Dalai Lama has planed the independence.

Again he called for research by the international authority for the revelation of the truth behind the riot.

2008-04-02T23:10:00.001+09:00

Being in the office during the lunch time makes me depressed.

2008-03-31T21:27:00.001+09:00

The stronger a person is, the longer the person can graze at another person.

2008-03-30T22:24:00.001+09:00

My CD player is almost broken. I will have to replace it in the near future without a doubt. But I'm in relative distress..., because of the world financial meltdown!

Full Blossom

2008-03-29T23:40:00.002+09:00

It must be the most beautiful day of Tokyo in this year.

According to the weather forecast, it will be rain day after tomorrow and Someiyoshino cherry blossom will begin to fall.

MS Word day

2008-03-26T23:00:00.001+09:00

I was badly forced to do paperworks today. Man often mistakenly feels to achieve a hard work even if he has merely done the paperwork. Will those papers I wrote today really be fertile?

Reason of books

2008-03-25T23:32:00.001+09:00

I spent the afternoon with Chaitin's 'Meta Math!.' Though I'm still in reading, it's so excited that I want to say something. Something about books in general again. What is the advantage of 'Meta Math!' being the form of books? I don't know the precise answer. But I feel that it at least isn't because of the fact that it was published from a publisher.

2008-03-21T22:57:00.001+09:00

I'm realizing that writing memo is fun by itself.

2008-03-19T23:51:00.001+09:00

I can do nothing without her help. But it seems that she can do anything, at least her own jobs, without my help.

2008-03-18T23:06:00.001+09:00

I can think of a dozen thing that I have to do than working with the current task. But it's not a good thought. I ought to achieve some fruits from any work, at least in principle.

2008-03-17T22:31:00.001+09:00

I think the most annoying symptom of the hey fever is drowsiness.

2008-03-16T22:51:00.001+09:00

It said to be hard for a baby under two months to walk around almost two hours. But the baby was in a good mood today after a short trip to Kitasenju. We are planning to go to Ueno next weekend.

2008-03-15T22:48:00.001+09:00

My friends came all the way to see our baby.

My hobby

2008-03-14T22:07:00.001+09:00

Learning and studying are my hobbies. None of your buisiness. I think there's nothing more exciting than these activities.

2008-03-11T22:52:00.002+09:00

I need someone who can draw adorable technical illusts .

2008-03-10T23:29:00.001+09:00

After three times rewiting, I just finished writing a tax preparation.

Baby on the belly

2008-03-09T22:47:00.001+09:00

I inadvertently took a nap under the baby.

Gauche Night 2008 in Tokyo

2008-03-08T23:58:00.002+09:00

I made a presentation of my life with Scheme at an event called Gauche.Night 2008. I haven't had a presentation for long years. But today, I think I overcame the difficulty, with a certain degree of beer and, of course, with support from everyone. Thank you so much for giving a chance to speak.

Reading a book

2008-03-05T22:26:00.001+09:00

I recentry became to think that the good books aren't the medium through which we just get information easier or learn some new knowledge. Rather, good books ought to give reader restricted information dpending on the reader's comprehension of the time. In other words, same books are able to be read by a reader at several ages or a variety of stages of one's life. I can hardly imagine other medium having such ability. I'd like to think more about this characteristic of books if I'm working in the publishing.

2008-03-04T21:44:00.001+09:00

Cloth diapers is not so economical if you use a liner. Rather it's ecological. But I'm not ecologist. It's nice because the odor smell does not remain with dirty diapers.

Passed away

2008-03-03T21:44:00.001+09:00

There were piranhas in the waiting room of the dentist. But today the aquarium was empty. They all passed away. The staff girl said that the broken heater claimed their lives. I am a bit of pitty as they had always made me happy. May they rest in peace.

2008-03-02T21:38:00.001+09:00

I'm reimplementing an in-house script from scratch because the licence of the script is not able to be open. Although I wrote the original one in my own leisure time, recent version is more contributed by my office hour. Thus, I know the company owns that.

Anyway the original ideas have been laid down in my head. And my understandings of Scheme has grown from when I wrote the original one. Here's the outcome of this weekend, which was achieved cradling the baby.

cnvr.scm
latex.scm

You can use these modules with Gauche to define some rules to convert SXML data to LaTeX, or you like, as below.

(use cnvr)
(use latex)
(use sxml.sxpath)
(use sxml.tools)
(use text.tree)

(define-simple-rules make-latex-cmd
  bold item)

(define-simple-rules make-latex-env
  li)

(define-simple-rules through
  p top body)

(define-tag a
  (define-rule
    (lambda () '())
    (lambda (str) 
      (list str "<" ($@ 'val) ">\n"))
    (lambda () '())))

(define sxml 
  '(top 
     (body (p "first sentence\n" 
              (a (@ (val "20")) "the attr: "))
           (bold "emph this!")
           (li (item "first line")
               (item "second line")))))

(write-tree (cnvr sxml sxml))

The result is this:

first sentence
the attr: <20>
\bold{emph this!}
\begin{li}%
\item{first line}\item{second line}
\end{li}%

It has still a big problem with macro. Of course the problem is variable capturing. If you define a rule with certain name like "list", it overide the procedure "list". But I decided to expose it in as-is.

Remorse

2008-03-01T22:54:00.001+09:00

I skipped writing for several days. It's still hard for me to think in English having the other things to do. Practice is habit. But being with a baby keeps adults away from their old habits.

Even a sentence is enough.

2008-02-25T23:34:00.001+09:00

My friend, the man wearing the fake NASA costume in the right photo, came to see the baby. At first the baby cry badly, but soon he seemed to realize that the man is not harmful. In reality, he stoped crying just because he drank a prenty of breast milk.

Define-macro with several forms

2008-02-23T23:01:00.003+09:00

Gauche, one of the most powerful scheme R5RS implementations, has define-macro special form. ~~It's useful but can take only one procedure as the defining form. So I use values special form to set several forms in one define-macro. For exapmle,~~

(define-macro foo
  (values 
    '(define ...)
    '(main form ...))

~~I wonder this technique is appropriate.~~

I've misunderstood. I'd do like this.

(define-macro foo
  `(begin
    (define ...)
    (main form ...))

Welcome home

2008-02-22T23:27:00.002+09:00

My spouse came back to the home for the first time in almost two months. And the son came to the home for the first time in his life.

But he is so upset by the new environment and won't stop crying.

It begins

2008-02-20T23:01:00.001+09:00

I have a hey fever and today it begins the season. Very suffering. It's no less than the real fever. What a rotten runny nose I have!

2008-02-18T21:41:00.002+09:00

I bought another laptop PC of necessity. How many PC is this house now?

2008-02-17T23:09:00.002+09:00

Each weekend I visited him, he seemed to gain in weight.

Whatever, I could do nothing but playing "Super Mario Bros." on DS in my spouse's parents' home.

Book reading speed

2008-02-14T23:09:00.001+09:00

I am a slow book reader. I can read Japanese books at at most 50 pages per an hour. The speed is down to at most 10 pages per hour for English books. I'm adoring everyone havine speed-reading ability. Is it just an ability of recognizing characters at fast pace? Or, is it required other ability? Can a man achieving a speed-reading skill read a specialized book without the domain's specific knowledge?

2008-02-13T22:56:00.001+09:00

I met Joel Spolsky, who is in Japan now. I managed a project of publishing the translated version of his first book several years ago. And it was the first time I can get the chance to talk with him. He didn't speak, say, ironically at all against his writings. Contrary, his presentation was filled with jokes and ironies and it was so fun. It must be more atractive without translations because he seemed to wait before saying each sentence until the translator finished the last sentence. Anyway, I could have had a nice day. Thank everyone whom I talked with today.

2008-02-12T22:44:00.001+09:00

Having a baby yields chances of communication with people whom I haven't seen for a long time.

2008-02-11T23:20:00.001+09:00

In my opinion, the expecting father had better have an experience to hold a newborn baby who still cannot hold its head by oneself. Otherwise, once he becoming a father, he will be paralyzed with over scares. In reality, there is no need to be scared, but is required to be just cautious.

If you will be a father in the near future and by chance have a friend getting baby lately, you ought to find opportunity to ask him/her to let you hold his/her baby.

2008-02-07T22:10:00.001+09:00

I seem to be in a bad week.

2008-02-06T22:51:00.001+09:00

I still feel depressed even when the big job I had been struglled has almost ended. Mantal contentment is touchy by its nature.

I can write anything without sense in Japanese.

2008-02-05T22:46:00.001+09:00

I have nothing to write here today. I could write anything that has no sense if I wrote in Japanese, but can't in English. I think the native language is characterized by such an automatic dictation ability.

2008-02-04T22:58:00.001+09:00

I had a bad day.

Erlang Book

2008-02-03T23:07:00.001+09:00

I was reading the erlang book through this weekend at my spouse's parents' home. There are a kind of book on the computer science that makes some readers feel hard to understand it, though it really isn't. Books are one of those easy-to-misunderstood products. It takes long time to be realized the real value of certain books.

L'OCCITANE

2008-02-01T22:22:00.001+09:00

Another friend gave me, preciselly our baby, the soup set as a gift. I owe you. Thank you very much.

It's not gaudy but adroit gift. (and must be expencive.) It's practical, because the baby needs to have us take a bath. But most of all, I and my spouse are fond of natural soap. We've quit using chemical soap. I'm looking forward to open the package.

Lack of Concentration

2008-01-31T00:01:00.001+09:00

My concentration level was so low that I was almost ordering Provigil. Of course, I didn't.

What determines one's busyness?

2008-01-30T00:35:00.001+09:00

I couldn't come back home on the same day I've left.

The amount of the spare time doesn't determine the busyness. It's the time under someone's control that determines the busyness in inverse proportion.

Temptation

2008-01-28T23:58:00.001+09:00

I can hardly resist the temptation of buying doughnuts these days.

2008-01-27T23:17:00.001+09:00

I spend every weekend at my spouse's parents' home with her and the baby. My work there is to change his diapers. But the events occur every two or three hours, so I devote most of time reading books, taking photos, or just sleeping.

It's moderate but somehow boring but still so peaceful time. That restful era isn't long, I presume.

Lovely gifts

2008-01-24T22:31:00.001+09:00

My friends gave our baby wooden toys made in Swiziland as his newborn gift. Thank you very much. He will like it, though it might become my toys rather than him ;) Anyway, thank you again.

And more, they chose a wooden teether as an additional present for him. It's too lovely for any words. I'll bring it to him this weekend and take the baby's photo with it.

To know the time pattern

2008-01-23T23:17:00.001+09:00

Today my spouse and baby left the hospital where they've lived for the last five days. It was the first moment the baby experienced the outer world out of the closed secure environment. Unfortunately it was a chill snow day.

The baby seemed to be confused when he arrived his grand-parents' home, in which they will spend the next month. He made me change his diaper a dozens of times. I became aware that the most inportant thing we should care on changing diapers is to know the time pattern.

Baby bottle

2008-01-21T22:44:00.001+09:00

I ordered baby bottles. A baby cost this much despite stock prices collapsing.

Trans fat and doughnuts

2008-01-20T21:27:00.001+09:00

My favorite doughnuts shop has redused trans fat. It's still not enough but a commendable activity. I heard that Krispy Kream has eliminated all of trans fat from their products in US. However, in Japan, even Krispy Kream seems not to care about trans fat at all. Food companies can sell trans-fat-rich-products with impunity in this country. I wish the MHLW, who hasn't cared about trans fat for now, obliges it.

Crying rather Sleeping (for now)

2008-01-19T21:30:00.001+09:00

We received a lot of congratulatory e-mails from friends. Thank you for all the words.

I visited the hospital to see my spouse and our baby, who was entirely drowsy. I know infants keep sleeping at the first day of their birth, though they are awakened for two or three hours immediately after birth. But his deep sleep still made me uncertain about his life.

According to her e-mail I just received, he screamed for breastmilk every hour after I left the hospital.

Welcome to the real world

2008-01-18T21:48:00.001+09:00

Gas Leak

2008-01-16T23:19:00.001+09:00

When I got back to the home, three men were working around the apartment building. I soon recognized a company emblem of the gas firm on their uniform. I thought there were a gas failure in some resident's room. It's nothing unusual.

However, I could smell gas. And they had broken the concrete ground next to the entrance open. If only one room has had a problem, they wouldn't ruin the shared space.

They said gas leak was from a trunk line supplying gas to this whole building. Thus, my house also has been under danger of gas explotion this afternoon.

Now the crack on the pipeline is fixed and I can use the gas stove -- I must have cold without heat tonight. Living in the city is like walking on a knife-edge, I become keenly aware of that occasionally.

2008-01-15T23:14:00.001+09:00

I had a toilet tank problem this morning and was almost being late. According to this illust, the lift wire was unlinked from the trip wire accidentally. More than that, there was something wrong around me today.
But now after dinner with a friend, all the bad feelings has gone away.

Elimination communication

2008-01-14T16:10:00.001+09:00

I just read an entry of Wikipedia explaining 'Elimination communication'. EC is not familiar in japan, so I didn't hear about it until I happened to get this entry. hmmm... I think this method as quite natural, though I consider it in a different manner. It certainly enhances baby's communication ability -- EC itself insists so. But I interested in EC because, in the first place, I think it is literally the natural way of baby learning where and how to toilet. I know pet kittens shortly after birth learn to go to their toilet by the same methods. That is, we get the signals and have them taken to the toilet and make some cues when they are in their toilet. And, of course, we don't put them something diaper. I don't notice any difference between both, at least on a potty training.

2008-01-13T23:55:00.001+09:00

It's not true that an expecting father has a lot of time, especially during his weekend. Physical time without mental relief makes no sense in one's life.

Preference during prenatal life

2008-01-10T22:39:00.001+09:00

My spouse said her preference of taste has shifted since her pregnancy. She now loves something salty rather than sweet, in contrast with her previous favor. Generaly, it's said that a women becomes loving salty if she carry a boy and the other way around. This superstion appears to be true for now as far as I can inquire.

2008-01-08T22:52:00.001+09:00

My friend is having a interesting experience, though I should not write that, though I am impatient to. Anyway I wish her success.

2008-01-07T23:49:00.001+09:00

Today I had a first chance of eating Krispy Kream doughnuts. (A colleague bought us them as a present!) I should regret eating five peaces of them.

And, though, I happily ate a lot of that, I prefer andonand, which is another chain of doughnuts stores in japan, to Krispy Kream...

2008-01-06T23:37:00.001+09:00

I have to sleep and get up, and even worse, live alone for two months from today.

Nodame Special

2008-01-04T23:28:00.001+09:00

I watched a TV program first time for the last year.

A cat dies

2008-01-03T22:41:00.001+09:00

I got a call from my mother saying that our cat have died early this morning in her house. The cat had lived with us for around 17 years. An incurable disorder had been knocked her out the last few weeks. The only consolation I think is that she died in her family.

Ten-Ten

2008-01-02T23:03:00.001+09:00

We went to see the movie titled "Ten-Ten" to Shinjuku. It will become the last time we went to the theater together, because we'll have a baby this month.

2008-01-01T22:20:00.001+09:00

We visited both of our parents to say 'Happy New Year.' On the way to my mother's home town, I left my muffler in the train and went to the terminal station to pick it up. It was somewhat fussing new-year's day.

2007-12-31T22:50:00.001+09:00

The last CD I'm listening to in 2007 is LET ZEPPELIN IV.

Odor

2007-12-30T22:41:00.001+09:00

I enjoyed bowling with friends. The game itself was really fun. But I was fed up with the smell of the bowling center. I would keep smiling if all the cigarettes were fully odor-free. The smell absorbed by my hair and clothes is always killing me.

Year-end air

2007-12-29T23:04:00.001+09:00

The local mall is filled with vigorous peace in this season. The atomosphere makes me so pleasant.