You may want to check this out so that you can admire cherry blossoms 🌸 in late March in Japan: https://livejapan.com/en/article-a0001033/

8 days is plenty of time for Tokyo and its surrounding. Many people usually start their Japan travel rabbit hole from Tokyo. Big city, lots of tourist attractions, very good mass transit system including subway, trains, buses etc. But make sure to avoid public transit during rush hour, unless you want to experience getting packed like sardines. Be sure to set a day aside to check out Mt. Fuji, but check the forecast before picking the day, it gets blocked by clouds a lot. There is not very good public transit to get to Mt. Fuji, or rather, it takes a long time if you go by public transit. But you can hire a ride to get you there.

If you want to see history, culture, temples, shrines, and Japanese castles, go to the Kansai Region, which has several famous cities / prefectures close by, including Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara. Rich in history because Kyoto used to be the nation capital of Japan, way back when. If you do end up going to Kansai, be sure to check out the Kansai Thru Pass, as it's a several day all you can ride public transit pass for tourists only. You need to show your passport to buy one, but it's a pretty good deal if you plan on taking public transit throughout the area.

Then there are some rather popular but not as transit friendly places, such as Okinawa (way down south, sunshine and beaches) and Hokkaido (way up north, probably still frozen and full of snow in March). They are both nice places to visit with lots of nature and natural scenery, but best if you rent a car or hire a tour guide / driver.

I hadn't considered this, but it makes obvious sense. This is reason enough for me to try to get out of my comfort zone. Do you have a favorite tv war drama?

I actually switched to 50-50 because I didn't want to risk forgetting to do the final 20. One set early in the morning before heading to work, and one set when I get home right after work.

I also do maxi Sundays, where I attempt the max reps I can do in one set every Sunday. Interestingly, I only got to 80 this Sunday, but had 88 last Sunday. Must be tired from work or tired from my runs or something.

The pyramid scheme sounds fun and challenging. You're pretty much doing burpees with squats and calf raises.

The pyramid pattern is 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1.

So, that's 1 pushup, then kind of jump into a crouch to do the squat from, then do a calf raise at the top. Then drop back down and do 2 pushups, jump up and do 2 squats/calf raises, then 3 of each, etc.

Something about that transition between pushups and squats must be generating more difficulty than I expected it to.

By the time Bitcoin reaches 100k, I'm hoping to be doing one big pyramid (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1), instead of four little ones, every day.

Thanks! Appreciate it.

I came away with some of the same thoughts. I remember going to a DrupalCon (Drupal CMS conference) years ago and listening to Dries Buytaert talk about the social dynamics of open source development. One thing that stuck with me is that everyone has to sell. We don't all sell a product or service but we all sell something if we need to convince others. Most of us will have to sell ideas. At the time I was open to this but I recall being a young dev and just hating everything about sales because my view of it was the slizzy car salesmen. But that is one short sighted high time preference approach to sales. The kind of sales needed here is finding common ground. Finding ways to create wins for many groups and people. Building consensus to make a change. I think it is rare for a person to be good at this skill AND good and writing code. They exist and one can learn either skill but its not easy to do both well. I can see a place for what Peter described in his business experience. Stakeholders that keep devs on focus. I'm not sure that's what is needed but it seems like people that can build bridges and find win wins for larger groups of people would help. I hope the community figures this out.

Wait.. i think i messed up.. I was suggesting hibiscus for the first pic.. I see a olive tree there.. The last one i dont know..

Damn.. thats not a easy guess.. carpet weaving in turkey?

zamo detected 👀

or let's say it's a much warmer winter:) and that's why I went all the way to here 😂🤓

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