At the end of last week and during the weekend I spent a lot of time working on my latest home project, setting up a home theater PC. I bought a tiny little computer and installed it in a dark corner of our entertainment center, and now I’m tweaking and setting it up, installing this and that, and thoroughly enjoying myself. Last night I even got some emulators working, which means I can play old games on the TV in our living room. Still, there are a lot of tweaks left before I feel like it is ready for prime time.
On Sunday morning we drove north to visit Kinosaki. It was the second time that I had been there, located on the north coast of Hyogo, and the weather was beautiful this time around. We went to the same resort/hot spring as before, and ate a huge lunch of crab. I think in the end we ate about three crabs each, in just about every variation you could imagine. Raw, boiled, steamed, grilled, you name it. Kuniko seems to be on her game these days and I think she is ready to join the workforce again this week.
In the evening we even had a surprise visit from Kuniko’s dad, who dropped off some vegetables and stayed for a cup of coffee. On the way home from Kinosaki we had stopped by their house to drop off some items and omiyage, but we had missed him so he came on over. It was nice to talk to him again, and it sounded like he was still just as busy as usual these days.
This week at work I have no more group lessons, so that means an extra two hours of time each day that I can use to do planning and paperwork to wrap up this term and get ready for the next. It feels like a luxury to have so much student-free time. Let’s see what I can do with it.
