5238

Fidel Castro passed away at age 90 on the day I visited Okinawa for the first time.

5242

I am a cat. Already I have a name. It's Sabreaux (Hiragana: さぶらふ).

5255

It was in Vietnam that we heard the news. Then we decided to take a nap. When We Awoke, The Dinosaur Was Still There.

5276

I've decided to focus on the following skills:

• Data science
• Infection control
• English for clinical reasoning
• Ultrasound for physical examination

As chance would have it, the acronym "DIEU" is just same as the name of the hospital 

where Ryouun Takamatsu studied medicine. He is one of the characters of the Japanese anime series,  "Intrigue in the Bakumatsu - Irohanihoheto" and was an actual doctor. I knew him from a TV drama series, "Shishi no jidai (The Era of the Lions)."

5351

The dining table without my wife.

5352

"Morning",  a Japanese weekly manga magazine and "New England Journal of Medicine", the most read and oldest medical journal come out on Thursday. Reading them is a little pleasure for me.

5353

Today Amazon service called "kindle unlimited" started in Japan as well.

5354

When I was a child, I hated ambiguity such as cloudy weather. The older I get, the more I like clouds. Observing clouds on my way to office is a favorite pastime. And now I am a member of The Cloud Appreciation Society.  John Finley, English historian and mathematician may well tell us: "Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty".

5355

This evening I filled up my volvo with high octane gas, gazing fireworks in the distance.

5357

We enjoyed a dinner at La Cucina VENTITRE for wedding anniversary. In fact, this Italian restaurant is as old as our marriage.

5368

On the day when I had no idea how to get it done with a deadline, I found an excellent tool named "Exploratory Desktop". It's just a fateful encounter.

5370

An earthquake occurred while I was listening to the lecture about shaking palsy. I thought something like an exquisitely choreographed shake.

5384

Here is a script of R for calculating my left days.

> as.Date("2031-03-31")-as.Date("2016-07-03")
Time difference of 5384 days

5385

In 2025 we'll see 100th year of Showa era. There will be 5 years left until my retirement. Today I decided to remember "Carpe diem". A scene of ER TV series  inspired me to start this blog.

Greene: Close your eyes, O.K? 

Katie: O.K. 

Greene: What do you see? 

Katie: The sky. 

Greene: What's up there? 

Katie: Orion's belt. 

Greene: Orion's? 

Katie: He couldn't beat the scorpions, so he jumped into the sea. 

Greene: Really?

Katie: Artemus put him the sky where the scorpions never gets him. 

Greene: I didn't know that. There. That didn't hurt did it? 

Katie: Is it over? 

Greene: It's all done. Thank you Katie.

Katie: What did I do? 

Greene: You just became my very last patient. 

Katie's dad: Your shift over? 

Greene: Yes.