Nice, Windy Winter Day

Today the weather in Yokohama is warm but windy, and the pollen is in the air. Since this morning I have been sniffling and eyes continually watering due to hay fever.

Spent a good part of last week and this weekend organizing contacts, work flows, and project templates (using this software for OS X) as I am getting ready to leave the bank and move back into consulting. Already have a pretty good gig lined up with another bank that starts first of March. However, while cleaning up my addresses, I noticed something that made me think a while about how tolerant Japanese can be.

I was looking at the name of my old boss while employed at a large audit firm. He was Japanese, but his first name as listed in my address book was listed with the wrong characters. That is, correct common characters for his name, but not his particular set of Kanji. That means that I have been addressing Junya by the wrong name in emails for over six years now and he has not said one word. Well, I just updated the address book. Now I have to find an opportunity to apologize profusely.