#weeknotes
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Week 15, 2024
I got so happy and at the same time so relieved to see my son's nice adaptation process to living in Japan that it certainly calmed my father's heart down. By the way, he's been doing really nice in Tokyo — by having sta…
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Week 14, 2024
My son has finally traveled to Japan last Monday. His flight took off from the Terminal 3 in Guarulhos International Airport at around 2 PM, and the previous hours before the take off were filled with emotion. He was ver…
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Week 13, 2024
I have finished my seventh book of the year — the first volume of The Southern Reach Trilogy, “Annihilation”, which I've read it in Brazilian Portuguese, where it's called “Aniquilação”, a simple, direct translation. I h…
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Week 12, 2024
I finished reading the second Dune Trilogy book, Dune Messiah, in Portuguese. Compared to book one, this was way harder to read and, sometimes, even hard to follow along, at least for me. The story wasn’t so captivating,…
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Week 11, 2024
I started this week coughing — a very dry , insisting and strong cough. Allied with two feverish sensations last Sunday and Monday, this was enough to take me to the doctor, so I could see what was happening. I have a lo…
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Week 10, 2024
There’s a belief related to movies that states sequels are never — ok, more like seldom — better than the first movie. As I keep reading the second book in the first Dune trilogy, I started asking myself whether this is…
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Week 09, 2024
Last Monday I had the opportunity to do something I really enjoy, which is mentoring people. There’s a couple of new interns working with us since January, and Monday I was in a remote meeting with them, after they asked…
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Week 08, 2024
I came across a link to Infinite Craft a couple of weeks ago, if I’m not mistaken. By then I saw that it was some kind of building game where you keep combining tiles of text illustrated with emoji, and see such tiles ch…
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Week 07, 2024
NOTICE: This is a late weeknote from Week 07, 2024. It was written on Week 08, 2024, due to reasons clarified below. — This week came in bringing a long holiday with it. Carnival is probably the most popular festival tak…
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Week 06, 2024
I went to work at the office this week, and wrote about it versus working from home. I don’t want to convince you about what is right or not, too polemic a subject… it was just something I felt like writing about. Also,…
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Week 05, 2024
While I was on vacations I accident broke one of my teeth. And this week I could finally go to the dentist in order to have it properly treated, a root canal treatment — taking me so many weeks to have it treated because…
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Week 04, 2024
I have come back to work this week, after well spent vacations where I could relax and gather renewed energy for 2024’s challenges. The first day at work welcomed me with a trip to Sorocaba, a city approximately two and…
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Week 03, 2024
I have been experimenting with NearlyFreeSpeech Web Hosting for a couple of months. Behind these experiments is a wish I have to pay less for online services — especially web hosting. This is the same wish that not so lo…
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Week 02, 2024
After a very long time — specially from my older son’s point of view —, we again received news regarding his Japanese MEXT scholarship. And, it turns out, they were very good news ! After a hiatus of months without heari…
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Week 01, 2024
I’ve spent New Year’s Eve with my parents, along with my wife and kids. We did nothing fancy, just had a small dinner while we all waited until midnight came and 2023 gave place to 2024. This year fireworks were more vis…
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Week 40, 2023
✱ This week my son received his JLPT N1 Proficiency certificate! It came by mail, a couple of months since he took the test in São Paulo. The delay lies in the fact that each and every test taken is manually reviewed and…
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Week 39, 2023
✱ Last Sunday my soccer team, São Paulo FC , conquered the 2023 Copa do Brasil championship title… for the first time! Among Brazil’s soccer championships’ titles, this happened to be the only one São Paulo had been unab…
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Week 38, 2023
✱ As I finished my previous weeknotes talking about Luke, I guess there's nothing better than starting this week by talking about him again . I've just bought a dog door in order to make both his and my lifes easier: dur…
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Week 37, 2023
✱ I had an appointment with my cardiologist this week. First things first, I went through an echo doppler exam to see how things were going after more than two years without undergoing this same exam. It made me very hap…
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Week 36, 2023
✱ I can finally say, 61 episodes later , that I've finished One Piece: East Blue Arc , the equivalent to the anime's first season. When watching so many episodes in a row it is impossible not to deal with filler episodes…