{"id":9413,"date":"2017-02-20T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:30:32","slug":"a-0-88-penny-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=9413","title":{"rendered":"A 0.88 penny saved…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you can’t sleep and it’s 4 in the morning, sometimes wandering the streets of Nishi-kawa fits the bill. And me being me, perhaps a carbonated beverage is in order.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if there’s a direct Poor Richard’s Almanack [sic] equivalent in the I Ching (I know it’s a Chinese origin “book of changes” but it exerted a great influence on neighboring cultures including Japan back in the day). So I can’t say for sure what it might be in Japan, but surely the concept translates – a yen saved is a yen earned. Yes, I could have gone to the corner Family Mart, or the opposite\u00a0Lawsons, or the other corner’s 7-11 to\u00a0buy a soda in a store. With tax, the bottle comes out to 151 yen… and sure that’s cheaper than the neighboring vending machines offering the same product for 160 yen.<\/p>\n

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But just down the road, near the intersection with the breaching whales building (!!), there’s a vending machine that has Coke Zero for 150 yen. \u00a0And so,\u00a0any way you slice it I was saving some yen.<\/p>\n

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Thus,\u00a0while Ben Franklin may have been tempted to write the wisle advice\u00a0that a 0.88 penny saved is a 0.88 penny earned, it’s especially important to mind one’s yen when one’s ATM card isn’t working.<\/p>\n

Lessons from the road.<\/p>\n

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For the record – here’s a not very good shot of the whales building from yesterday’s walkabout. \u00a0Mom and I both said the first thing\u00a0we think of when we see a humpback whale is Star Trek IV.<\/i><\/p>\n

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