happylife

In a Two-Size-Smaller Shirt

It was in the morning the day before yesterday, when I got up on my bed I felt a stimulating pain in my back. The strained back has came back again I recognized in the moment. I visited my acupressurist after a few hours later. This is a story I heard from him. The reason for the strained back is too long and strong tension of your mascle. It's just like you are in a shirt which is two size smaller than your real size. It gets torn with any kind of body action such as coughing, putting on pants, lifting up something heavy and so on. In this case, the body action itself does not matter at all. The problem exists in the fact that my back muscle had been over-tensioned for a long time. My torn muscle will recover within a few weeks automatically, but it will tear again if I wouldn't change my shirt into my size. He also told me that stretching is the best way to change my shirt size. All I can do now is cooling down the broken muscle so that it recovers earlier and after the recovery I have to remember to stretch my back muscle. This story might not be scientific, but it is persuasive at least for me.

Iridium Flares

Iridium Project is the name of a global telecommunication service using artificial satellites. We can make and receive a call wherever we are on the Earth using a special handheld phone. It's a great service but very costly because 66 satellites always have to be maintained. The project company once went bankrupt and it is run by a company different from the original one. If I sail across the Pacific Ocean in the future, I may use it, but usual people would never use it because of its high cost. I found an interesting iPhone application named "Iridium Flares." The 66 Iridium satellites sometimes reflects the sunlight and it looks like a flare. This application tells us the accurate date and time, direction and height, intensity of light and the name of the satellite. As I was staying up all nights, I could try and find the flare this morning. It was about a ten-second flare, but how interesting it is to see the flare just on the time and in the direction as predicted! Different from other astronomical events such as eclipses, the flares can be seen almost every day. I'm thinking about watching them as many as possible. 

Whisky

The other day I went to a bar with my friends in a small town in Tokyo. It was a good bar with nice atmosphere and quite a few liquor variations. I ordered Canadian Club Black on the rock. To tell the truth, I can't tell the taste of whisky, but it was very good. I think that the taste of alcohol depends on not only the taste itself but also where, when and with whom we had it. To be able to enjoy a glass of whisky is a happy thing because it never tastes good when we are in a unhappy feeling. It might be a barometer of how happy we are. Though I had been in a distance from alcohol, I'm thinking now that I can come closer to it. But I have to be careful of not being indulged to it because my grandfather was a kind of alcoholic.