#weeknotes
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Week 35, 2023
✱ I've decided to digitally acquire Brotato on the Nintendo eShop this week. That's a game I already own on Steam , and that I very much enjoy playing ( whenever I have time to ). In case you don't know Brotato, its conc…
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Week 34, 2023
✱ Some weeks ago I was in São Paulo with my son, as he was going to take the JLPT test. Now, 7 weeks later, his results came in by e mail: he's been successfully approved in JLPT N1 level! This has been a very nice way t…
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Week 33, 2023
✱ Last Sunday it was Father's Day here in Brazil. I'm lucky enough to live at a walk's distance from my parents' house, so I visit them often, almost on a weekly basis, and have plenty of opportunities to talk to them an…
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Week 32, 2023
✱ I've never mentioned it here, but, during the pandemics I started a YouTube channel aiming to teach English to Brazilians. This was during the initial months of it all, and my employer at that time advised us all to re…
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Week 31, 2023
✱ My two week vacations finished this week, so last Monday was time to return to work. I feel blessed every single day for having the opportunity to work from home — only occasionally going to the office, so I cannot say…
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Week 30, 2023
✱ My son received good news, again, this week. He's now passed the national stage in his quest to obtain a Japanese college scholarship. The analysis process finished last July, 24th, and this means he's now one of the B…
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Week 29, 2023
✱ I'm on vacations! That'll be 15 consecutive days to rest... from my formal work. With all that's going on with preparations for my oldest son to eventually get his Japanese college scholarship, I'll be traveling a lot,…
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Week 28, 2023
✱ Last Wednesday I took my son to the Japanese Consulate in São Paulo, where he had an interview following up his MEXT exam approval last week. Due to the interview requirements he needed to come all suited up with forma…
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Week 27, 2023
✱ My week started in São Paulo again. This time my son took the JLPT test, for which he'd been preparing for sometime now. Before he took interest in Japanese, though, it would never occur to me that there was an exam to…
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Week 26, 2023
✱ It's very difficult for me to find good cardiologists . Being the kind of person who likes everything explained to me in details, some doctors I've had appointments with in the past proved very dry and unwilling to tal…
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Week 25, 2023
✱ Our fridge , with the family for almost 15 years now, started this week decided not to work. On Monday morning we all woke up to noticing it had completely de iced everything. And worse, as we were about to schedule th…
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Week 24, 2023
✱ After two weeks in a row, I've finished reading Dragon Wing , the first of the seven books that form the Death Gate Cycle , an adult fantasy fiction series created by authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman still in th…
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Week 23, 2023
✱ One never knows when Murphy’s Law is going to strike. We have this Epson printer home, seldomly used nowadays as mostly everything became electronic, either emailed to us or easily obtainable via PDF files. We generall…
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Week 22, 2023
✱ If someone asked me, I’d say the most amazing play I’ve ever watched happen in NBA was featured by Derrick White) last Saturday, a couple of hours after my weekly notes: at the last second — actually, the last 0.1 seco…
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Week 21, 2023
✱ I’ve always been a big fan of Michael J. Fox , specially because of the Back to The Future trilogy he starred. So it was only natural for me to want to watch Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie this week, a documentary relea…
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Week 20, 2023
✱ According to my pedometer app, I’ve walked 29.5km this week. It’s probably not much for people who are used to walking and running as a means of exercising, but it is a lot to me . Actually, I’ve gone above the 10,000…
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Week 19, 2023
✱ As the result of a badly curated cold, I’ve caught some laryngitis , probably to ensure my week started well. Lots of sneezes and a chronic cough came along as a result. That’s why the doctor said I’ll need to stick to…
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Week 18, 2023
✱ There’s this restaurant in our city where my family and me have eaten for I can’t even remember how long now (although I’m sure it’s been for more than 18 years in a row now). We don’t eat there every day, of course, b…
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Week 17, 2023
✱ My son had a tomography of his inferior wisdom teeth this week. All because his teeth are in a difficult position to come through, and will need to be extracted while internal. This exam will allow the dentist to defin…
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Week 16, 2023
✱ So after a long wait, I was finally able to watch the Tetris movie. It took me 15 days longer than I wanted and some connection problems with the Apple TV+ service happening exactly at the same time when I decided to u…