私の予想より世論は激しく動いて、鈴木宗男議員包囲網はかなり狭まってきた。

テレビのワイドショウで取り上げられて、新聞の週刊誌広告のトップにでてくる
ようになると、いくら力のある人物でもどうにもならなくなってくるのは、オウム真
理教から林真須美まで、いくつかの事件であきらかだ。

願わくば、国会証人喚問で野党のしっかりした追求が行われること。いままで、国
会証人喚問が効果的だったことがないから、多いに心配だ。

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One of the excellent hygienists in my office had a stomachache yesterday, so she had to stay in the staff room for a couple of hours.

According to her, she had eaten a lot of cakes for several days. These days we have received a lot of cakes as a gift from our patients almost everyday.

As she loves to eat cake, she seemed to have skipped normal meals. It might have caused her trouble. I advised her not to eat such kind food all the time, instead to eat normal food much more.

I watched a TV program yesterday, it featured preventing cancer form the view point of eating habit. I learned a lot about how we can avoid having a cancer.

Good eating habit is very important. Eating lots of vegetables prevent us from having a cancer, it said. Vegetables contain a lot of dietary fiver too.

In my experience, when I eat vegetables, I feel good. When I eat cakes, I feel very bad. Let's eat vegetables and fruits much more. (^.^)

２月２４日(日）

花粉症の季節になったらしい。「らしい」というのは自分が花粉症ではないから
だが、うちの歯科衛生士５人のうち４人が花粉症で、家内も入れると大変な率
である。

診療室の空気清浄機はいくらか効果があるようだ。昨年ある患者さんが「ここは
天国のようだ」と言っていたが、彼は花粉症で参っていた。

いつもは健康的な彼女たちだが、この季節だけは私が家内を含めて彼女らに同
情している。

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Today, I went to NOVA near JR Fuji station. I took two lessons. Last time when I had been to NOVA, I was not able to say "fireflies". Of course, I was so embarrassed about it.

Instead of saying the insect's name, what I could have said was "light bug." At first. the teacher pretended not to understand what I was saying. So, I tried hard to make myself clear, for a while. Then, at last, he said "I knew what you were trying to say, it must have been fireflies." I said "Right" with a relief.

After getting back home, I checked up the word "firefly" in my dictionary, then I found there were several synonyms. "Lightening bug" was one of them. Yahoo!

It must have been somewhere in my mind. I must have read or heard the word somewhere before. Or, did I coin the word while I was talking to the teacher?

Anyway, today, I told him that there were other ways to say "fireflies." But, he said he never had heard of the word before. Hmm.. OK.. (>_<)

２月２３日(土）

小泉首相、川口外相はアフガンNGO問題の発端をつくった､鈴木宗男と関係の
深い外務省幹部を更迭するようだ。当然のことだと思うが､田中前外相を辞め
させたのは間違いであったと認めたことになる。

それにしても今回の素早い決定は小泉内閣の特徴だと思う。前回の参考人質
問が自分たちに不利になるとみるや素早い行動を取る、これに関しては、たい
したものだと思う。よほど世論の操作にたけたブレーンがいるのだろう。

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It's often said that in the dream you can't remember the color of the things. However, I saw a rainbow dream last night.

Let me tell you what I saw yesterday. I was talking with a man in my living room. Actually our living room doesn't have a window which faces to the north. But in my dream, we could see Mt. Fuji through the big French window.

Our guest suddenly said "Look, there is a beautiful rainbow at the foot of Mt.Fuji". I turned to the way to the window and saw a clear big rainbow in front of Mt.Fuji. I enjoyed beautiful bright colors for a while.

After the disappearance of the first big one, There appeared second one, which was not so big as the first one. But still looked beautiful. I was delighted to have seen such great views for the first time in my life. But, it didn't last so long.

Shortly after the disappearance of the small one, there was a big flash of light. It looked like an explosion. The light was very strong and bright with the back of a dark silhouette of Mt. Fuji. It was so impressive for me to see the changes of bright colors in a short time.

I have no idea what the dream meant, but there must have been some relations with war films recently appeared on the TV.

２月２１日(木）

　Salt Lake Olympic Games で日本のジャンプ陣はメダルを取れなかった。期
待が大きかっただけに余計残念。

　ところで、ノーマルヒルとラージヒルの両方で金メダルを取ったスイスの選手
を見ていて気が付いたことは、彼は限りなく鳥に近い体つきをしているという
ことだ。

　弱冠２０歳ということだが、童顔と細い体つきからはとても二つの金メダルリ
ストのイメージは浮かんでこない。しかし、彼こそこのスポーツに最も適した体
つきをしていることがわかる。まさしく鳥の骨格なのだ。

　ジャンプ力や飛行姿勢といった体力や技術の問題は、良いコーチのもとで
練習すれば身につくことだろう。しかし、最も大事なことは、鳥の体をしている
ことだ。もし、鳥が豚だったら、とても空は飛べない。

　細い骨格と、しなやかなバネをもった筋肉を、どちらかというとぶかぶかのジ
ャンピングスーツに収めた姿はまさしく鳥だ。ジャピングスーツが翼に相当する。

　体が軽ければ軽いほど、風に乗って遠くまで飛べる。

　そして、精神力、ここ一発というところで力を出せる心をどう訓練してきたかだ。

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By the way, have you ever listened to NHK's radio conversation program
"Easy Business English Conversation" on Saturdays? I have been listening
to both "English Converstion"and"Easy Business Conversation" for several
years.

Among of those programs, I like Ms. Funakoshi's programs best. Of course,
Marsha's weekdays programs are OK.

Ms. Funakoshi is a professor of some university, as you know. The reason why
I like her program is her sweet voice and the way she speaks. It's fun to listen
to her voice on the tape while I'm driving to commute. I usually tape-recorded
the program on the radio in advance.

You can also listen to NHK's English News for about ten minutes after listening
to Easy Business English Conversation program. (^｡^)

２月２０日(水）

　田中真紀子と鈴木宗男のどちらがウソをついているかは、ほとんどの人に
とって明白なことだと思う。

　しかし、外務官僚に圧力をかけて、一部のNGOがアフガン復興会議に出席
できないようにしようとしたことを、彼は決して認めはしないだろう。

　なんとかしてそのウソを認めさせたいのだが、あそこまで上り詰めただけあ
って、残念だが頭は良いし、行動力もある。国会や記者の質問に、よくもま
あ、と思うほど徹底的にウソをまくしたてている。と、少なくとも私には見える。

　テレビを見ていて分かるのは、とにかくすることが、せこくて小ずるいのであ
る。目立ちたがりやで、自分が悪いことをしていているという意識も無いようだ
から、手に負えない。

　「善」にはももちろん、「悪」にも多くの真実があると思うが、ズルイ人間には、
箸にも棒にもかからない、人間の屑としかいいようのないものを感じる。ただ
軽蔑の目で見るだけだ。

　ところで、「ウソの研究」という本はないだろうか。ウソを研究したら人間の本
性が見えてくるはずだ。「White Lie」　という言葉もあるから、良いウソもある
のである。害の無いウソも悪意のウソも含めて、ウソだらけの世の中なのかも
知れない。

2月18日(月）

My wife took Robin to Whity dog's beauty parlor today. He got a pair of blue
ribbons on the head just upper part of his ears. He always smells good after
returning from the shop. We usually take him to the shop once a week. Once
when we took him to the vet. one of the nurses said that she had been
surprised at his always pure white hair. My wife and I smiled at each other to
have heard of it.

The entrance exam which one of my kids will take is just around the corner.
She is going to try to enter the same dental college where I learned 30 years
ago. I hope she will get a good result. I hear the competition is very severe this
year. One seventh of them seems to pass the exam.

２月１７日(日）

I visited Dr. Kogure at his office with Dr. Fukuda in the morning.. We asked if Dr. Kogure could show us his new handy digital camera for dental use a few days ago.

We were surprised at the ability of the small digital camera produced by Morita.
The images caught with it were very clear for our daily use. I thought I could
use it for looking for root canals. I could use it for checking up my preparation works for crown and bridge, too.

In the afternoon, my wife and I went for shopping by car. We took Robin with
us. Robin always likes to go out with us. He is delighted to hear we talk about
going for a drive. We bought some fancy cakes at MIMI near the Fuji City Hall.
I dropped by Sumiya Pasokon island and Yabe Denki to check out I could buy a
small TV for a display of digital camera. Maybe I could use some handy one.

These days I'm in lack of sleep. I think I should go to bed before mid night. (ﾟoﾟ)

２月１５日(金）

According to the Asahi newspaper, the people who smoke are likely to have a cancer more than 1.5 times to the people who don't smoke. The paper said the researchers made their study under the circumstances of reducing other factors of causing a cancer.

２月１４日(木）

　今日は木曜日だから普通は休診なのだけれど、月曜日が祭日だったので、
半日診療だ。９時に始まりほぼ１２時終った。非常に順調だった。

　いつもこのようにいくといいのだけれど、仕事がはかどらずストレスばかりた
まる日もある。

　朝日新聞の夕刊によると、公共の場の禁煙を推し進めるための超党派の国
会議員の連盟が出来たらしい。

　現在でも国会の各委員会がすべて禁煙ということではなく、それぞれに決め
ているらしい。国会ですらそのような状態ということか。私の住んでいる田舎の
町内会と一緒だ。

　公民館は喫煙コーナー以外は禁煙だが、公会堂での会合では町内会長を
はじめ何人かがけっこうスパスパ吸っている。

　タバコが苦手の人がいるとは思いもよらないという感じだ。といって私が自分
から苦情を言えるような雰囲気ではないので、しかたなく黙っている。