Starting next month in December, in addition to Wednesdays and the last Saturday of the month,
I'm also making Thursdays a closed day.
This is something I've been thinking about for many years now,
and honestly, I've been way too slow in making the decision.
Over the past several years, I've been having health issues more often,
and since our shop's official closing time is 8 PM, customers often come after that,
and some people basically only come after 8 PM or so
（not that there's anything wrong with that per se）,
and I'm sure many people have seen me passed out cold
sleeping in my office chair at those times.
On Wednesdays, I sleep like the dead from morning through the evening and beyond,
and when I check my Polar records, the rides of several dozen kilometers or more
are mostly just long detours on my commute home,
or I'm out riding sometime between late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning—
there are very few examples of me heading out for a ride in the morning on a day off.
So, whether this will be permanent or temporary is still undecided,
but starting in December, I'll be taking Thursdays off as well.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
My mentor also said it would be better to designate some days officially as closed to the public
where there's no guarantee anyone will show up, so I don't have to answer the phone,
and just handle deliveries from the shipping company
I'm self-aware enough to know I'm a bit of a scoundrel（←yes, I know）, and having
an extra 50 days a year to loaf around and get into mischief? Hell yeah!
Edit: I'm amazed how many applause votes this post got
So, tomorrow is November 30th (Thursday),
but I have some pressing business,
so I'll be taking the day off.
So it's basically like starting Thursday closure tomorrow.
The conductor Ulf Schirmer is very fond of Japan,
and while he's now passed away, his wife was Japanese.
He conducts frequently with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra,
and I've had the chance to hear him many times in the past,
but he's probably the conductor with the highest fee
that the Osaka Symphony can hire.
When they bring in big names like this, apparently multiple orchestras
pitch in on the fee and have him come to Japan for an extended period
where he conducts multiple orchestras.
And so, here's Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
conducted by Ulf Schirmer.
This is one of those symphonies I don't need to study up on beforehand,
so it's perfect for me as a program.
The concert that has stayed with me most from my past
is the late maestro Yuzo Toyama's Beethoven Symphony No. 3
（which also doesn't need advance study）, and this might rival that.
I'm also making Thursdays a closed day.
This is something I've been thinking about for many years now,
and honestly, I've been way too slow in making the decision.
Over the past several years, I've been having health issues more often,
and since our shop's official closing time is 8 PM, customers often come after that,
and some people basically only come after 8 PM or so
（not that there's anything wrong with that per se）,
and I'm sure many people have seen me passed out cold
sleeping in my office chair at those times.
On Wednesdays, I sleep like the dead from morning through the evening and beyond,
and when I check my Polar records, the rides of several dozen kilometers or more
are mostly just long detours on my commute home,
or I'm out riding sometime between late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning—
there are very few examples of me heading out for a ride in the morning on a day off.
So, whether this will be permanent or temporary is still undecided,
but starting in December, I'll be taking Thursdays off as well.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
where there's no guarantee anyone will show up, so I don't have to answer the phone,
and just handle deliveries from the shipping company
I'm self-aware enough to know I'm a bit of a scoundrel（←yes, I know）, and having
an extra 50 days a year to loaf around and get into mischief? Hell yeah!
Edit: I'm amazed how many applause votes this post got
So, tomorrow is November 30th (Thursday),
but I have some pressing business,
so I'll be taking the day off.
So it's basically like starting Thursday closure tomorrow.
The conductor Ulf Schirmer is very fond of Japan,
and while he's now passed away, his wife was Japanese.
He conducts frequently with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra,
and I've had the chance to hear him many times in the past,
but he's probably the conductor with the highest fee
that the Osaka Symphony can hire.
When they bring in big names like this, apparently multiple orchestras
pitch in on the fee and have him come to Japan for an extended period
where he conducts multiple orchestras.
And so, here's Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
conducted by Ulf Schirmer.
This is one of those symphonies I don't need to study up on beforehand,
so it's perfect for me as a program.
The concert that has stayed with me most from my past
is the late maestro Yuzo Toyama's Beethoven Symphony No. 3
（which also doesn't need advance study）, and this might rival that.