I went to judo for the first day today. The beginning was a kind of warm up that everyone did. We just stood in lines and did various exercises across the mat. At one point, we had to do somersaults… I don’t think I have attempted to do a somersault in over a decade but I just went for it and it didn’t turn out too bad.
After the warm up, the class was split up into two parts and I was in the part with a few other guys who just started learning so I got more instruction about what was going on and learned a few things. It was nice to get some exercise and also learn a new martial art.
Although it was raining today, when it became night time and I had to return back home from judo practice, the rain turned to snow and it was snowing pretty hard. There is snow on the rooftops now which is an interesting sight since it rarely snows in Tokyo, perhaps once a year.
In any case, I also got a lot of Tagalog studying done today and have learned 405 cards now… since there is one card for English to Tagalog and another card for Tagalog to English for the same word/phrase, this is about 202 total words/phrases.
I checked one of my business projects and although it is progressing a little, it seems to have hit a wall in some respects and it is certainly not earning me enough money for the amount that I am spending each week to keep the project going. I am not sure what I am going to do regarding this. Either I will scale back the efforts so that I spend less money until I can start earning money from the fewer sites that I focus on or I am going to try to bring in some new tactics to help boost the efforts. At any rate, because my income is so low right now, I cannot really afford to keep this project going at the rate it is since it is costing me too much each week. I will have to either add some new tactics to the efforts and hope that the project as a whole starts earning me money quickly or I will have to succeed in another project to gain me the money I need to keep this one going for a little while longer. We will see what happens.