I mentioned already that I’m doing a lot of IT work these days. This is triggered and enforced on me by a tax scheme change in Japan. Thus, there are some modifications needed in the CRM I introduced in 2018 – 2021 to OBM’s company in Tokyo. Additionally, there are also some tricky modifications in spreadsheets with data from the CRM needed. This is already quite some work. On top of this, there are a few bugs in the new version of the CRM, which was introduced as s green bananas. These bugs require a lot of email communication and tests, Thus, during the last about 2 weeks, this is my main work and it will continue a bit more.

Beside this work, there are the daily boat jobs. Special boat jobs are on hold for the moment.

Nice moments got rare but still they exist. When I’m looking at the landscape around the Atahuku Bay and see the light changing with the clouds on the steep volcanic slopes, I just enjoy these short moments.

I also intensified reviving of my French. It’s fun to recognize that I can understand and speak always a little bit more. It’s like in my teenager days when I hitched hiked in France and could practice my French with the people who gave me lift. I also hitch bike here whenever I need to go to Atoana and back and enjoy talking to the people who give me a lift. Sometimes I’m thinking that it’s a pity that the distance to the villages is only 2 1/2 km and not 100 – 200 km like in the old days in France.

So far about the things occupying my days.