Weekly Weekend Thread – 30 March 2026

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1. Did hanami because the flowers went from 0 to 100 in the span of 2 days. Plus rain is incoming that’ll wipe them out tomorrow 🌸 Truly short-lived blooms. 

2. Everything hurts. We had our first big farm day of the year yesterday so a lot of digging in the dirt and planting things. First one of the season always sucks the next day. I’ve done some tilling and other stuff with the tractor previously this season (filled my small field with oats as a cover crop and maybe for bonus oats if I’m lucky), but the goal was to get in the cold-weather crops. I got most of them in the ground and will probably start some broccoli, cauliflower, etc. in pots this evening after my main job finishes. Here’s hoping we don’t have any weird cold snaps that drop below freezing after things start coming up.

   Next weekend will probably be similar, if the field isn’t a swamp from the storms, and then we just have maintenance until it’s time to start jalapenos and the link in early May.

3. On Saturday I got cornered by a woman in a Donki who was very excited that she found a foreigner to try to invite to her cult (probably Kenshokai because she said it was a Nichiren Buddhist thing, but could have been Soka Gakkai).

   I only talked to her at all because I thought that maybe she was trying to get my attention because I dropped something or she thought she knew who I was.

   She said something about 〇〇様 (didn’t catch the actual name) and something about how the world is falling apart (citing the Strait of Hormuz) and how we need to pray to fix it, and tried to invite me to a temple in Shin-Yokohama.

   I kept telling her 大丈夫です、いらないです but she was very aggressive, and like I said, I was literally cornered. Eventually managed to get away. Very awkward and uncomfortable situation.

4. Oh boy, went out to Kyoto with my wife for 3 days. I was hoping to relax and have a good time. But she blew up over something minor that could have been resolved if she just communicated.

   So what happened was she wanted to go to this cafe, but because she forgot her medicine at the hotel we had to go all the way back to the hotel. Fine. Things happen, but we lost an hour. From the hotel, there was a bus that would take another hour to the Manga Museum. I then mentioned that there was a train that would go straight to that area in only 15 minutes. She said we were in no rush to get anywhere. I went along with it. So to make sure I had time for my part of the trip. I wanted to go to the museum. She was angry I didn’t prioritize her thing. The thing is by the time we got to the museum it was already 3PM and they close at 5PM. The cafe she wanted to go to closed at 6PM. So she actually was crying and making a scene inside the Manga Museum over this. It was embarrassing. I was telling her you could have communicated that you wanted to go. You could have gone on your own. She didn’t have to come with me. She assumed I wanted her to come. Later I caught up with her again around 4PM and said hey we can leave if you want. We can go to that cafe. She didn’t take that offer and instead said no I am doing something here.

   So, we leave the museum at 5PM and walk to this cafe and it was too late. They had their last order. We walk out and she is glaring at me with her eyes wide open showing me the whites of her eyes. As if this is all my fault.

   Then she wanted to talk about it in public when I said lets go back to the hotel and talk about it like adults. But no she said she wouldn’t be able to get past it and enjoy the rest of the day. We talked about it in a park but I don’t think it was effective.

   Then I was upset but tried to enjoy the rest of the day. Then the next day I was still kinda upset still about the day before. But then she just expects me to go along with what she had planned and have a good time about it. Nothing about wanting to figure out why I am still upset or whatever. Or try to make it up to me. She just acted like it didn’t even happen. She did give me an apology on Line but not in front of me. She wrote saying she was tired and she was sorry for not being able to control her emotions.

   I mean, she ruined my part of the trip. She does this every trip I’ve been on with her. She cries and makes a scene over such minor things. I am so tired of this. I told her I am never going on more than 1 days trips with her from now on.

   I have never been on a trip that felt like a massive waste of time and money. It just confuses me because we had a fun first day and she was all euphoric and stuff. Then the next day she was like how I described.

5. We went looking for curtains.  Wife can’t decide on what she likes though.  We had two video calls going with our parents and she’s still stuck.  And this has got to be the one time where there’s no pushback from me – I’m 100% in support of her choices and even happy to get the more expensive ones.  I even made the decision for her.  But alas, she can’t make her mind up so we have no curtains.  (I’m having a good chuckle about it while trying to support indecision)

   Had a lot of fun with my kids, too.  We did weeding, made banana bread, bought some stickers to send back to their new friend in Australia, and I watched them tease me (they pretended to get a cramp after running around in circles…).  A great weekend!

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