Event log on Saturday September 15 2018

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I wake up at 0620, read Fukuda Tsuneari’s essay “Beauty and Ugly”. The author says a matter of fact observation that beautiful women tend to be getting richer than not so beautiful women.
Other authors had already pointed out this natural rule, such as

https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/nprtheeconomist/MYBLOG/yblog.html?m=lc&sv=good+looks&sk=0

Go to a urology clinic for monthly examination of urinal acid and other kidney function indicators. The blood sample shows not too bad and the doctor says let's wait and see, rather than inserting a conduiting plastic tube the pipe connecting the kidney and the bladder. The next appointment is made in five weeks time.
While collecting urine sample in a bath, spot a sample collection instruction with an interesting drawing.

Spot a mikoshi parade of Katori Jinzya shrine autumn festival from a bus.

Read an article in The Economist in the afternoon.

Naked Europe -All the young prude - the Economist Sept. 1st 2018

The home continent of public nakedness is growing more body-shy

A paragraph in the article as under is likely to the essence of one page story.

“ But while immigration plays a role in Europe’s increasing modest, other factors are more important. The rise of social media has made young people more body conscious, reluctant to display anything less than perfect abs. Smartphones with cameras make risque undress riskier. The #MeToo movement has forced a reassessment of even fully clothed interactions between the sexes, let alone naked ones. And the increasing ubiquity of online pornography is making it difficult to de-sexualise the naked body, a prerequisite for nudist beaches and unisex saunas. ”

go to bed at 2155.