Coffee Shop on the Last Day of Golden Week and Google Data Center in Chiba

Hello, it's Munou.

I tried Irish coffee for the first time in my life.

When I was paying and leaving the shop, the manager greeted me with, "Long time no see."
I remember coming here alone about a year ago for the first time, with my DSLR camera and ThinkPad X220.

Apparently, I said at the time, "I'm in despair about life."
Perhaps humans are well-made, or perhaps the fact that I don't remember saying that made me realize that the situation is at least better than it was back then.

Irish coffee is made with:

Irish whiskey
Coffee
Whipped cream

It's apparently a cocktail made with these ingredients, and it was a new sensation: coffee with alcohol.
It's good to travel far, but even at the age of 23, experiencing something for the first time in my life brings high satisfaction. Because even if I were to travel far, I don't know if I would necessarily drink "Irish coffee."

If I hadn't been with a friend, I probably would have just ordered my usual coffee at this familiar shop I'd visited before, and that would have been it. I'm grateful to my friends who put up with a person like me.

I believe that the more something feels like a rerun, the faster time seems to pass. So, while I'm conscious of trying to live by slightly changing my 'world line' without repeating the same old patterns, I also find myself wanting to listen to music I've heard before or review things I've already learned. To change means to walk a difficult path that leaves the past behind, so a little courage is needed.

By the way, when I took out my DSLR for the first time in a while, I found images of the Google data center in Chiba that I visited last year on its SD card.

There was an area where entry was restricted to authorized personnel only, and although I really wanted to go up to the gate right in front, I zoomed in from a distance.

About an hour's walk from Chiba New Town Station. While walking along 'Data Center Road,' I observed what kind of place it was.
I like walking because I also enjoy knowing what kind of place the land with buildings is, so I tend to just keep walking. It's really fun to walk while imagining, 'Oh, there's a coffee shop like this,' 'There's a restaurant like this,' 'Do the people working here always go to these places?'

In the countryside, it's the scent of the land. The smell of the forest, or pigsties, or burning grass.

This is a flower shop I photographed from my favorite Chinese restaurant in Sendai. Don't you think a flower shop visible from a Chinese restaurant window feels a bit unusual?

2023/10/18
This is in front of a securities company, but was there anything special on this day?