Chi-Chia's blog

Our first overnight trip with our daughter in Taipei, staying at Radium Kagaya International Hotel in Beitou for a Japanese-style room, private hot spring, and dinner at the hotel.

I discussed the integration direction between HDE Secure Mail for Online Storage and Google Drive with Ito-san; that night I was invited to Josui Kaikan, where I drank while looking out at Tokyo Tower.

I set the Chrome Extension aside and switched to unit tests, only to get stuck on Flask-SocketIO; in the evening I bought groceries, cooked curry, and came across a lively Oeshiki memorial service at a nearby temple.

I felt physically and mentally unwell, and work stayed stuck on integrating a Chrome Extension with the existing architecture; after work, I bought daikon, shiitake mushrooms, and nagaimo to make lunch feel a little less repetitive.

Getting sick made my progress fall even further behind, so I got up early for work and walked to the office from Daikanyama through the cool, quiet streets. Setting up Flask-OAuthlib went badly all day, lunch was a satisfying steak meal with coworkers, and by afternoon I was still lagging far behind.

After the typhoon passed, Tokyo's sky turned brilliantly blue, but halfway through breakfast a migraine hit and I had no choice but to take the day off and stay in bed. Chills, cold sweats, vomiting, and dizziness came in waves, and even when I briefly got up in the afternoon, I still had no strength and could only worry about my progress before falling asleep again.

I had already planned to stay home and rest. After getting up near noon, I did some laundry and made lunch, then spent most of the day loafing around. I had meant to look at some programming-related things, but did not get much done. I just hoped the weather would calm down by tomorrow so I would not have to go to work with an umbrella.

On the second day of the first holiday weekend after starting work, I forced myself out the door and took the train from Shinjuku to Enoshima and Kamakura. I spent the day sightseeing on a tight budget, taking photos and collecting station stamps, unexpectedly wandered into Kodama Shrine to see a poem monument by Goto Shinpei, drifted all the way to Gokurakuji, and did not make it home until ten at night.