I seriously underestimated the 9:04 train. It was completely packed, so in the end I still took a later one. Japanese trains really are punctual.

Today I walked to work along Dogenzaka. There were more people around, which made the walk a little more interesting. I climbed ten flights of stairs to the office again. This is about the only exercise I get now.

After confirming that the backup cron job I set up yesterday was running properly, most of today’s work was spent reading documentation and tutorials. I successfully set up Redis on my EC2 machine and added its data to the backup as well. I ran into a small issue with chkconfig, but later found the solution elsewhere (the link is dead now). Redis really has no love for Red Hat.

Later on I kept reading about Flask and Google OpenID. It was a bit exhausting. Flask’s debug server could only be accessed through localhost, so I ended up solving it with an ssh tunnel.

At first I thought I did not have any lunch plans today, but then Kodama-san suddenly asked in the morning why I did not have a lunch appointment, and immediately said he would take me out. What a genuinely kind person. The other person seemed to be Omoto Kenji-san. He was very tall and did not say much. Kodama-san said he usually eats a boxed lunch, but since the company was paying today, we should eat something special, so we went out for steak.

After work, I wanted to go to Loft to buy a mug. I happened to take the elevator with another intern, Philipp Weber, so I thought we might as well walk together. On the way I chatted with him in my terrible English. My TOEIC score may have been 960, but that certainly did not test speaking. It turned into a thoroughly awkward little trip.

The mugs at Loft were about 1,000 yen each, so after thinking it over, I decided not to buy one after all. Philipp said he was very hungry, but I had not planned to eat out, so I felt pretty bad about that. In the end, he picked up what was supposedly the best fried chicken in Japan along the way. Tomorrow I should make it up to him by telling him where else he could go.

Note: This article is translated from Traditional Chinese.