Today I finalised with my wife our plans for doing some walking in the countryside in Japan. With some research, I found a walking trail that is part of the Nakasendō, one of the five Edo Period trade routes. The segment we’re planning to do can be accessed by train, starting from Nagiso and ending in Nakatsugawa. I found us a small hotel in Nakatsugawa, where we can spend a night after arriving from Kyoto, then the next day get the train to Nagiso and walk back over the old Nakasendō route and spend another night before heading to Tokyo. It looks like a really nice walking trail, and I’m really excited about it. Now I just need to find hotels in Kyoto and Tokyo and our trip is fully booked.
Today I spent time working on the game design for my Creative Thinking class, to get it done and a file sent to the student by tomorrow. I bounced ideas off my friends via Discord chat and we decided it would be cool to have every player be a different kind of infectious monster: zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. They’re all trying to kill humans, but end up infecting each other, so by the end of the game all the players will be zombie-werewolf-vampires and so on. I still need to bed down a few rules and then get it ready to play tomorrow.
Also I had my first class for this week’s advanced ethics topic on Artificial Intelligence. It was a great discussion – all the kids really interested in the topic and talking about the issues. We could probably have easily continued for another hour, but I had to cut the class off at the scheduled time.
For lunch I took Scully for a walk to the Naremburn bakery and had a lamb pie. They also had yet another new dessert: a cheesecake tart with pistachios. I had to try that, and it was really good.
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