{"id":3211,"date":"2009-11-07T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2009-11-07T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:18:05","slug":"ive-lost-5-pounds-since-ive-been-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"I’ve lost -5 pounds since I’ve been in Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was another beautiful fall day here and maybe even a bit too warm. Most everyone is wearing long sleeves and fall clothing even though it was in the 20’s today. I’d say it was probably in the low 70’s if we’re talking about degrees Fahrenheit and the weather report said it was 75°F. It was another rest day though we did go shopping a couple of times. The mall near the Kawasaki’s house has most everything I would want to buy, though that’s not going to stop me from going shopping for other weird crap in Osaka and Tokyo. I have to make my pilgrimage to Akihabara after all, to the gadget stores under the train tracks.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure of how much I really weigh because I’m usually using rickety old bathroom scales, but I do know that the expensive-looking scale at the hot spring that I went to on my third day here said I weighed 75kg in the morning (just over 165lbs). The bathroom scale at the Kawasaki’s says I weigh 76kg or so but the bathroom scale at home said I weighed 163lbs the last time I checked. That was when I was going out for cheeseburgers with Sean quite regularly, so I’m not sure what it all means other than that it’s increasing my mistrust of bathroom scales.<\/p>\n

Of course, I have been sitting around a whole lot and spending most of my non-sitting time eating. Plus I’ve been drinking more than I usually do.<\/p>\n

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The only disaster of the day is only one in my mind. I’m expecting that my trustworthy contractor left the windows open since before the recent rain\/windstorm and my even more trustworthy sister hasn’t gone to check on the house yet. When I left on a Wednesday, she said she’d check on the house on Sunday. I knew that didn’t mean four days in the future, but whatever Sunday was just before my return home. Apparently the contractors left the outside light on for some reason as well and I’m not sure what else they’ve done. I’m hoping they refinished the stairs, because that’s what they were supposed to do while I’m gone. I’m not going to worry about it now, because there isn’t anything I can do about it until I get back anyway. If it’s really bad I can just sell the Uniqlo jackets I’m bringing back for her on ebay or something. That’ll pay for some light bulbs, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was another beautiful fall day here and maybe even a bit too warm. Most everyone is wearing long sleeves and fall clothing even though it was in the 20’s today. I’d say it was probably in the low 70’s if we’re talking about degrees Fahrenheit and the weather report said it was 75°F. It was another rest day though we did go shopping a couple of times. The mall near the Kawasaki’s house has most everything I would want to buy, though that’s not going to stop me from going shopping for other weird crap in Osaka and Tokyo. I have to make my pilgrimage to Akihabara after all, … Continue reading I’ve lost -5 pounds since I’ve been in Japan.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}