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| 5/1 | Woke up at 6:00AM, went for a morning run. Worked at office whole day, had lunch, and briefly left to get my new car & renter's insurance in Michigan. The rain during the noon was very strong. Even had some hails. Come home around 6:30PM, went to gym to work out, come home around 9:00PM and worked on my assignments until 11:30PM (again) |
| 5/2 | Woke up at 6:00AM, some parts of my body is stiff because of the workout yesterday. Went to work earlier and headed to Indiana for a customer visit. Had lunch at a Chinese restaurant with my coworkers, and come back to Michigan around 6:00PM after a meeting and long drive. Stayed at office until 9:00PM, headed to bed around 11:30PM. It was a sunny and nice day. |
| 5/3 | Woke up at 6:00AM, stretched my body a bit then headed to outside to visit client. I stayed there until noon, and headed to a Vietnamese restaurant for lunch with my coworker on the project. I come back to the office around 1:30PM and found out that I have a piece of cake for my chare. Yum. Stayed in the office until 6:00PM and headed back home. I went to gym in the evening and worked out. Come home, worked on company assignments, and relaxed a bit before heading to the bed. |
| 5/4 | [A large tornado struck towns in KS, OK,
including damaging 90% of structures in Greensburg, KS] Woke up at 6:00AM, reported to work on time but since I was tired, I could not workout in the morning. I had to take a test at work so it was pretty memory refresher. Stayed until 6:00PM, then headed to home. The road was very busy but I still had time to go out and run for a while. Relaxed in the evening, had a chance to go shopping to buy groceries, gas my car. |
| 5/5 | Woke up at 7:00AM, the outside was already bright and sunny. Went to a pool for swimming for one hour. I was finally able to make membership card. The printer was broken for almost a week. I stopped by a couple of places before heading back to home. In the evening, went to office to clean things up for the new week. I stayed until 6:30PM then headed back to the home. Spent evening taking on the phone with my friends, wrote emails. Going to bed after midnight. |
| 5/6 | Woke up at 7:30AM, went out for a morning walk in a chilly and windy weather with wind coming from the east. Even tomorrow's low is at 42F so no wonder I feel a bit cold in the spring day. Very much the last day for Japanese holiday so I am going to call them tonight. Spent afternoon at home, just typing up few stuffs and organizing more. |
| 5/7 | Woke up at 7:00AM. I could not wake up at 6:00AM because I worked until very late. Arrived at work a bit late but stayed longer instead. I could not work out before or after the work. I think I should exercise more. Going to bed around midnight. |
| 5/8 | Woke up at 7:00AM, I had no time cooking so I had to wait for a while before my rice is done. Worked at office whole day, the morning was a bit cold but noon was pretty warm. Going home around 6:00PM, went to gym for workout. Come home, and stayed up for a while then headed to bed after midnight. |
| 5/9 | Woke up at 7:00AM, not only unable to go out because too tired, but also was not feeling good because of headache. Went to work, feed myself a bottle of Pepsi to get some caffeine, I was not feeling good at all whole day and come home around 9:00PM. Going to bed after midnight. |
| 5/10 | Woke up at 6:30AM, earliest in this week. It was sunny but I still had headache so I did not go run. Went to work, took care of businesses and left there on time. Drove to the gym in the evening and had workout. I am cleared to take test next weekend so I am looking forward to it. I had to take care of company stuffs in the evening so I went to bed after midnight. |
| 5/11 | Woke up at 7:00AM, sunny morning but I missed to go out before work because I was so tired. Went to work, had lunch with my coworkers at a Japanese restaurant. stayed until 6:00PM and drove home. The road was pretty packed and took me a while. to just come home. After arriving home, I went outside for a walk then headed to grocery store to buy a week worth of food. Going bed around midnight. |
| 5/12 | [Kansas made English as the official language of
the state, according to Wichita Eagle] Woke up at 7:30AM, went to swim for about one hour. Stopped by gym to turn in my application for belt promotion test. Spent whole afternoon taking care of the business at office. I only saw one another guy stopping by. Coming home around 6:00PM, had dinner and spent evening relaxing. I went to bed after midnight. |
| 5/13 | [A big three automobile company, Chrysler Group
to be sold to Cerberus Capital Management] Woke up at 7:30AM, went for a morning walk but twisted my right ankle really good on the way back. I had to wear a brace for whole day and was in pain. The morning temperature was at 40F so it was pretty cool but just fine over the day. With sunny weather, I could hope any better day that this. In the evening, I got together with several friends from Wichita State in the evening, had dinner. It was a good opportunity to Come home around 8:30PM, and worked on my assignments. For the first time in the week, I get to go bed before midnight. |
| 5/14 | Woke up at 6:00AM but stayed in bed for another 30 minutes. It was a bit chilly. Stretched my body but I could not do much due to my sports injury, ouch. Went to work on time and stayed until 9:00PM. Come home cooked spaghetti noodles, Went to bed around 11:30PM. |
| 5/15 | Woke up at 6:00AM, my ankle still hurts so I did not do any exercise. Spent whole day at office. Got stormy in the afternoon. Stayed in the office until 10:00PM and come home. At least I was not going to the gym, but I really wanted if my body feels okay. |
| 5/16 | Woke up at 6:00AM, went to work. Still a bit misty whole day. I must have forgot to pick up my lunch at home so I did not bring one and had it at outside for today. Worked until 8:00PM and come home, relaxed in the evening and went to bed by midnight. Got sore throat from the morning. I don't know why... |
| 5/17 | Woke up at 6:00AM, my ankle still feels pain so I did not go out for a walk in the morning, also missed my gym class. Spent whole day at office since I have so much to take care of. Coming home, going to bed. Yes, that's simple. |
| 5/18 | Woke up at 6:00AM. Reported to work with feeling sick but I survived the day. Since I missed bringing lunch last Wednesday and ate at outside, I had to eat home lunch to save some money. Stayed until... 8:00PM? Because I had to be at meetings whole day. Stopped by Meijier before heading home. Going to bed around midnight. It's been pretty chilly these days. |
| 5/19 | Woke up at 7:00AM, still my throat was sore but feeling better than last night. Some rain fell in the early morning but was okay. Went to outside for a while to adjust my leg recovering from injury. I went to office to take care of issues and stopped by haircut place before coming home. Spent evening just relaxing. Called home and talked with my mom about recent incident happened at near my hometown. A former Japanese yakuza member shoot and killed a police officer, which is very rare thing to happen in Japan (Very common in the U.S., however.) |
| 5/20 | Woke up at 8:00AM, went to a grocery store in the morning to grab a newspaper. Spent afternoon at office until 9:00PM. Come home, updated my webpage and uploaded, going to bed by midnight. It was cloudy most of the day. I hope I can stop coughing by tomorrow... |
| 5/21 | Woke up at 6:00AM, I had to go work early to catch a meeting with Japan. Spent whole day at office, organizing stuffs. Decided to go home around 9:00PM, come home and relaxed but could not go bed until midnight. |
| 5/22 | Woke up at 6:00AM but stayed in bed until 6:30AM since I felt so sleepy, took shower, had breakfast in 30 minutes and left home to pick up a coworker before going to work. Spent whole day visiting a customer and did not come back until 7:00PM, stayed at office until 9:00PM then headed to eat at On The Border with two other coworkers. Come home around 11:00PM and headed to bed around midnight. Due to today's event, I ended up skipping gym class. |
| 5/23 | Woke up at 6:00AM, tired from yesterday's trip but managed to report to work. I had to finish preparing materials for the meeting in the morning, and everything very much went okay. Spent afternoon for taking care of visitor from Japan. I had to go to places around the town but able to come back by 7:00PM. Stayed at office until 10:00PM due to a meeting. Come home, going to bed around midnight. |
| 5/24 | Woke up at 6:00AM, too tired to walk outside so I just went to work. Spent morning preparing for today's meeting. The meeting itself went well. I spend most of the afternoon for visiting stores with coworkers. Had evening meeting with Japan and ended up coming home around 10:30PM, went bed by midnight. Skipping another gym class... |
| 5/25 | Woke up at 6:00AM, went to work on time but missed a chance to walk outside. Since today's the last day of the week before Memorial Day weekend, some already took afternoon off, or leaving the office on time. My coworker visiting the company was going back to Japan so I had lunch with him. I stayed at office until 6:30PM then headed home. I forgot to drop a mail off so I will need to go back there again. Shopped groceries at Meijer. I spent a lot of money since there were so many things with lower price than usual due to the holiday. Took evening easy and going to bed before midnight for the first time in this week. Phew. |
| 5/26 | Woke up around 6:30AM once but since I was too tired, decided to sleep until 7:30AM. The rain was already falling hard occasionally. Checked emails and get my body stretched. Been to gym for a short swim, then headed to the office to pick up the mail which I forgot to drop it off to pay rent. Spent afternoon relaxing. I just don't want to do much of stuffs today. Still got some rain whole day but not stormy. Expecting Indy500 to be rainy. |
| 5/27 | Woke up at 7:30AM, few more rain, and Indy500 was running under rain today. Went for swimming in the morning, drove to a shopping mall to buy some polo shirts (for the summer!). Spent afternoon relaxing since the outside was raining and needed some rest. Going to bed around midnightl. |
| 5/28 | Woke up at 7:30AM, had pretty good morning just relaxing and jogging for a while. I am not sure why but I guess because today's Memorial Day, I saw a couple of F-16s and six classical warbirds in the air. Spent afternoon at work to take care of stuffs, come home around 8:00PM. Had dinner and went to bed around 11:30PM. |
| 5/29 | Woke up at 6:00AM, went to work early for the meeting, spent morning for meetings, and also the afternoon. Worked until 6:00PM, then headed home to get change for gym class. Went to bed around midnight. |
| 5/30 | Woke up at 6:00AM, went for a morning run and headed to Michigan Secretary of State for getting a new drivers license here. However, the system was down so I went to work after eating lunch at home. Spend afternoon at work and stayed until 11:00PM.Tired,,, Going to bed around 1:00AM. Had little bit of rain, and I could see lightning in distance throughout the evening. |
| 5/31 | Woke up at 6:00AM, had to go to work earlier than usual. Spent whole day at work but able to get out for a while to renew my drivers license and my license tag. I broke one of placement bolt so I need to come up with some kind of way to fix it. Come home around 6:30PM and went to gym. I had really good class, Going to bed by midnight. |
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