Thursday, December 1, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch a piece of cake at snack time, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Western-Japanese meal for dinner. It's a cold rainy day.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The personnel director of Motorola Japan interviewed me when I took an examination for entering it in the first half of the 1990s. It's an honor for me to have an opportunity to talk personally with the chairman of Motorola Japan in his office for half an hour, following the interview with its personnel director. I had been frequently relocated to one office after another in Japan and the US since then until my permanent transfer to Motorola Inc. in the late 1990s. My job relocations during the first five-year period were arranged for the purpose of the job rotation program. To my knowledge, the job rotation program isn't common in the US.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Ensembles, team sports, and other team events have been introduced to the education of children in terms of group activities in an organization. Strict training utilizing these team events is the above-mentioned education in a military fashion.
Some people have an insatiable spirit of inquiry by nature. It's a disposition inherited from their ancestors. It seems to me that the spirit of inquiry can't be easily cultivated with this sort of education.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
My technical paper under the title of "Optimization of Sub-50nm MOSFETs to Mitigate Drive Current Degradation Due to Silicon Recess in S/D" was published in the 2003 SISPAD Proceeding. Originally, I planned to report only the results of the simulation study on the mechanism of the performance degradation associated with the Si recess in the S/D regions in the paper for the 2003 SISPAD. With the intention to reflect on advice by a coauthor that not only the investigation of the influence of the Si surface recess but also the method to mitigate it should be addressed here in order to attain perfection, however, I decided to add it to this paper. During the process of writing this paper, I came up with this transistor design scheme by making full use of TCAD simulation. The comprehensive transistor design scheme was also added to this paper. As far as I know, nobody had used it before I reported it. A Taiwanese coworker asked me to send him a soft copy of this paper a few months after the 2003 SISPAD conference. After he received it from me, he began working on a similar work with an American coworker.
My technical paper under the title of "Moderately Doped Channel Multiple-FinFET for Logic Applications" was published in the 2005 IEDM Proceeding. I made this transistor design based on a hard look at a next-generation scaled-logic-transistor application, for the purposes of patent acquisition and publication.
These two papers were disclosed to the public for publication purposes after all of the necessary approval was obtained, as written previously. Therefore, these publications shouldn't cause any leakage of trade secrets.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
The Japanese Cabinet decided to reorganize the government-funded nuclear organizations in Japan, including the integration of the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC, formerly called the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation of Japan) and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) in 2001, and then the newly integrated organization of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) was established in 2005. A corporation having a special semi-governmental status that I was once offered a job on during my senior year at Science University of Tokyo is the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation of Japan, which is responsible for the development of a fast-breeder reactor and an advanced thermal converter reactor and is currently a part of JAEA.
In the long run, I didn't join the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation of Japan simply because my father strongly disagreed with my obtaining employment at it. If not, I would have been pleased to enter it. Somehow, my father passed away several days after my graduation from Science University of Tokyo and about a month before my matriculation at a master's course at Tokyo Institute of Technologies. In view of the present situation of nuclear power generation in Japan, whether my father's opinion was reasonable or not is still uncertain.
It's my view that solar power is the most peaceful source of energy. It's safe especially when any toxic material isn't used in its manufacturing process. Putting the right renewable sources of energy in the right place should be the key point. Solar power is suitable for the dry districts with a plenitude of sunshine, the geothermal is suitable for the cold districts, the EGS is suitable for the hot-underground-rock districts, the hydroelectric power is suitable for the mountainous districts near a stream, and the wind power is suitable for the windy districts, as written previously. For the next few decades, I think that oil and natural gases will still continue to play important roles in the energy industry.
The development of safe nuclear reactors should continue to ensure future energy resources. However, the proliferation of nuclear reactors should be more carefully dealt with than it is now until the conditions are satisfied in the near future.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Stopped off at an auto parts store to buy a new battery for my wife's car on our way home because it has reached its life span. Because they were about to close the store when I came in, I didn't ask them to do the installation of a battery there. Installed it in my wife's car right after homecoming. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Recently, for some unknown reason, some people in Austin tend to bother me when I am dressed in glen plaid.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Practicing by repeating a presentation on my previous works in the semiconductor area at home for about thirty minutes is one of my recent daily habits. Also started rereading an English pronunciation textbook in order to get rid of my Japanese accent in my English today.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The duties of the US troops that had been stationed for the purposes of the maintenance of public order and the training of the domestic security units in Iraq since the end of the Iraq War in 2003 came to a close officially today.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
For the last few days, the Internet access to our house via Earthlink has been very unstable.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Found that the plastic funnel that's installed in the engine to hold the engine oil dipstick of my wife's car was damaged due to deterioration. Since its oil change last September, a small amount of engine oil may have been spilled out from the damaged funnel while driving.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
In order to avoid any undesirable load for the engine of my wife's car due to possible deficiency of engine oil, my wife and I will not drive it until a new oil dipstick funnel is delivered to our house via UPS Blue this Friday. The reason why we ordered the funnel from a part shop in Arizona online is that it's the nearest to our house in the online parts shops having the funnel in stock that we found.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Put a new oil dipstick funnel on the engine of my wife's car. Confirmed with an oil dipstick that the oil level of its engine was appropriate. The oil leakage from the engine has been kept to a minimum.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Got up at eleven o'clock. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out to buy a large piece of Stilton cheese and a bottle of rose champagne at a grocery store this evening. Confirmed on the road that the condition of the engine of my wife's car was good. Ate a Japanese meal following an appetizer of Stilton and some glasses of champagne for dinner.
From now on, my wife and I may sometimes enjoy a bottle of wine, champagne, or sake at home only on Anniversaries and Holidays.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
My father was unable to drink alcohol at all because he was born allergic to it. My grandfather was inclined to change into another person when drunk. I am able to hold my liquor much better than both of them. As in the past, drinking a bottle of champagne didn't give me any hangover. It seems that my liver is functioning well.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Got up at ten forty-five. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal including a bowl of buckwheat noodle soup. Stayed at home for the entire day.
