Since I’ve been in my house all day, I have nothing to write today.

Some students have sent me emails in these two days. I would like to thank them; I am very happy to read their messages. And the next thing I got to do is to write replies. Yesterday I wrote my reply to one student. Actually, I should have written to five students today, but as of 8 p.m., I have done none yet. I am sorry to say but, give me a little bit of time to reply to you guys.

And the followings are a little about me. My elbow of right hand is still aching so that I can’t play my bass. My elbow started aching in July and now it’s the end of October. It had been getting better very slowly, but one week ago, I just tried playing my bass with very light touches of my fingers. I played 15minutes only, but this was very bad for my elbow. I feel that my curing process went back more than one month. Now I think I should not play bass in the rest of this year. I practice piano every day at 4 p.m., but I play only with my left hand.

Another thing about me is that I will go to Tokyo this weekend. I asked one of my students in Tokyo if he would be able to drink with me in the night or not, but he said he couldn’t because he needed to work for a part time job in that day. I thought I was going to stay longer in Tokyo in order to adjust to his schedule, but I gave up this idea, because I cannot leave my old mother in the house more than one-night. I need to go home soon. I think this raises a problem that I cannot travel to far from my home in Niigata, though I wanted to travel to many places in Japan.