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giving alex progeny more sunlight

Alex is the name I gave a plant that was given to me by Kana, before she moved away from where Soness used to live in Chigasaki. I believe I was still living there at the time, but dating Lin and gave the plant to Lin soon after I got it.

Anyway it grew into a big strong plant, for some values of big and strong. I rooted 4 baby Alex plants and they are growing in their own containers. Good thing, because the original Alex froze maybe two years ago now in a winter that was beyond his pay grade.

We now have three decent sized versions and an itty bitty little one that I had planted out front, but today I realized it was no getting enough sunlight to be really planty.

Today I used the square 酒 cup from Christine and Erik's wedding as a planter for this littlest of Alex's progeny. It's hanging from a hanger I made from earphone wires. And this time, it is hanging inside, in the sunroom behind Mama's room.

For some reason, I did not take pics of the creation process, but it was pretty simple. There are two drain holes in the bottom of the 酒 cup. Five(?) large-ish white gravel stones line the bottom, and then a layer of small-ish black rocks are on those. Then I scooped some dirt from our front bushes and put the Littlest Alex on that.

Here he is from July 2019:

Here are his brothers now:

Here's how they were in July:

All of them in July:

lunched with anuj and saw a big hornet

Nice lunch with Anuj at a Chinese restaurant near the back side of Kawsaki station. We talked about technology, what we do for work, what I am beginning to do for work (facilitation), SOGO, and possibly hanging out in December.

On the way back, we noticed this hornet(?) on the ground. He did not look particularly safe to me, so I put him on a tree. I really am not sure if the hornet would prefer to be in the grass (protected from wind) or what. Sad to imagine he will die soon, but at least now not as likley to be squished to death by a shoe.

No pics now until I get wifi.

so far my closest brush with liquid nitrogen

Today Naoko practiced the English version of her science show starring liquid nitrogen. Standing across the table from her, facing a 1.5 liter beaker of liquid nitrogen was somewhat distracting for me. It was close enough (and deep enough) that I could have dunked my whole hand into it.

I want to play with it and see how different things react. Will my pen shatter if I put it inside and then smush it? How about paper?

Naoko predicted the pen might shatter, but that paper would be largely unaffected unless it is already wet.

Though the plan had been to work with her for 2 hours, we only had 45 minutes because of a surprise tour, she had to do a real presentation of the show (in Japanese).

Pics next time.

studied japanese

There are probably errors in the Japanese notes below!

子供にパソコンをかわされました。 犬に足をかまりました。 友達に顔をたたかられました。 靴をまちがえられました。 犬に着物を汚されました。

taped my computer closed

Yesterday my computer battery died because the case is warped, which keeps it open which keeps it on. Not sure why being on battery did not make it turn off.

Anyway, I put some tape on it to keep it closed.