Saturday, December 1, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Got up at ten-thirty 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.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Drove to Dallas with my wife this afternoon. Stayed at the Westin Hotel Park Central. Attended a meeting, namely the Opportunity Summit, held in the ballroom of the hotel where we stayed. Ate a Japanese meal at a restaurant this evening.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a continental breakfast in the morning. Returned to Austin this afternoon after attending to business there. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for dinner. The engine of my wife's car ran great during this travel.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a simple Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening. Ate pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
Since yesterday, my wife and I have begun having everyday conversations in English even in our house. We talked in Japanese at home and in English when we went out previously.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Got up at nine forty-five 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 9, 2012
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner. It's getting colder minute by minute.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Today's minimum temperature was 29 degrees F (-1.7 degrees C).
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Today's minimum temperature was 30 degrees F (-1.1 degrees C).
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening. Ate pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner. It's getting warmer and warmer.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Two groups of possible buyers visited our house separately in the period between 4:30 pm and 6:00 pm this evening. Went out shopping at a grocery store during this period of time. Ate pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. One of the groups of possible buyers who visited our house yesterday revisited our house in the morning. My wife and I read some pages of the books in my wife's car parked near our house when they saw its interior. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Other real estate agents left some messages on our answering machine this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a warm day, as usual in this season.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. A real estate agent and her clients visited our house this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The estimated value of our house by WCAD was $256.414 in 2012. The price of our house by eppraisal is $214,031 and that by Zillow is $249,575. I still believe that the reasonable sale price of our house should be about $220,000 to $240,000 for now.
Considering the current situation to sell it in a short period of time, however, the listed price for the sale of our house was set to be much lower than that, unfortunately.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The necessity of guns for the purpose of self-protection in the US can't be easily denied. However, I think that the possession of any assault rifle, grenade, missile, and other weapons with more lethality by ordinary citizens at home can't be justified. These are designed to kill several people or more in the field of battle in a couple of seconds. It's excessive for self-defense.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a hushed potato for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores while a house inspector who was under contract with a buyer's realtor was investigating our house with his clients this afternoon. Probably, he broke the blinds placed on the window near the bathtub of our house when he pulled a string to draw up it at the wrong angle strongly. Ate pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A telephone on the desk rang twice while I practiced the daily English speech. There is no message left in its answering machines. They often hinted at something to us by using a prank phone call. My wife and I considered the hidden meaning of today's phone calls. I thought that the pages that I read when a telephone rang might be related to the meaning they bore.
One is the page explaining the transistor design scheme to mitigate the Si recesses in the S/D regions due to over-etchings. This part was reported in my publication found in 2003 SISPAD. This page shows how to use the TCAD simulation in order to make the transistor durable against degradation due to the possible Si recesses during the semiconductor manufacturing processes so that the production yield can be improved. Usually, telling about how to make an invention should be avoided in the publications and the presentation of the industrial world. However, telling about how to use the software to improve the production yield should cause no problem. I found this way of the TCAD use when I committed to writing the publication. The trends of the transistor design that were described in the publication weren't adventuresome for the sub-50nm transistor with a minimized gate-S/D overlap. That was why the disclosure of my publication was approved. Both an American and a Taiwanese started similar work after I gave my speech at the Boston Marriott Hotel in 2003.
The other page explains the influence of the use of multiple fins on the circuit performance. This part was reported in my publication found in 2005 IEDM after all the necessary approvals of my publication for disclosure were obtained. My idea wasn't patented in 2004. When I was writing the abstract of the document a couple of months after my attempt to patent it in the late part of 2004 or the early part of 2005, an Indian announced at the SOI conference that the FinFET wasn't appropriate for any high performance and low power logic applications came and told me that he had an idea for SRAM applications similar to my idea of the multiple-fin FinFET for logic applications. The other Asian started the modeling job within a couple of months after an Indian showed me his idea early in 2005. Since then until the early part of 2006, I started working with an Indian, an Asian, and a Singaporean. A couple of years after that period, in 2007 or 2008, a Singaporean reported at the IEDM conference that the FinFET wasn't appropriate for any logic applications. That was the unfortunate news to me. When Intel Corp. began to release its Tri-Gage, which is a sort of FinFETs, on the market early in 2012, I had complicated feelings.
It's important for the management to keep their job responsibilities secure in an organization. There should exist several political techniques to keep their responsibilities and, in some cases, to take responsibility and achievement from others. One of the typical ways to get someone's work is to hire a new employee and to make him/her engage in the work that a person in other groups did previously. The repetition of the work that someone else did previously may be meaningful for the development of the next-generation products. It may also be meaningful if there are some serious mistakes found in the previous works. This is why I have never complained to the people above. However, if a manager did that only for the acquisition of an achievement while ignoring the benefits of the company, a manager should be criticized.
BTW, About two years after I gave my speech in a ballroom of Hilton-Washington DC in December 2005, two professors in the universities in Asia published their publications. One is about the high-k gate dielectric film and the dual metal gates and is similar to what I worked on in 2004 in the company, but I didn't publish it because it wasn't worthwhile publishing it outside. The main purpose of my work is to revisit the old work and to add some insights for the development of the next-generation products in the company. The other is about the multiple-fin FinFETs and is similar to the second phase of my study on it in the late part of 2005 through the early part of 2006. I was unable to publish it because of my adverse situation since 2006. Even if I hadn't been in adversity, I might have been able to disclose it by taking the benefit of the company into consideration.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Got up at seven o'clock 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.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Since the early part of this year, my wife and I started drinking a glass of water just before going to bed in order to relieve dehydration. We confirmed that drinking plenty of fluids helped me avoid vertigo related to dehydration.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a piece of Italian cake with a cup of tea at 4 pm. Had a pint of Guinness with a Sushi meal for dinner.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Today is Christmas Day. Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a piece of Italian cake with a cup of tea at 3 pm. Had California red wine with a Western-Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a rice ball, a fried egg for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
The Liberal Democratic Party won an election by a clear majority on December 16, 2012. Today, Mr. Shinzou Abe was elected Prime Minister of Japan for the second time.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Today is our 11th wedding anniversary. Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Our house was sold with the traditional sale. The sale contract of our house was closed today. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a rice ball, and a fried egg for lunch. Had California white wine with pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
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. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Confirmed that we paid off our loan in time. Had a pint of Guinness with a Japanese meal and a bowl of Japanese soba noodles for dinner.
