{"id":75140,"date":"2011-01-04T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=75140"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:59","slug":"clean-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20110104\/everyday-events\/clean-edition","title":{"rendered":"The “Clean”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once the new year gets going, there’s so much to do.
\nWe swap out files for invoices and delivery slips
\nand toss out papers we don’t need.
\nThe inside of my desk drawer is really a mess\u2014what’s all this? Insurance faxes, quotes, request forms…
\nA ton of stuff came out, and once I cleaned it up, it felt great.
\nI even found an empty USB memory stick\u2014lucky!
\nAnd two 500-yen coins!
\nInside a McDonald’s bag were titanium scraps rolling around\u2014what is this?
\nⅠ Yamasan gave me these practice materials once, saying “try titanium work now and then.”
\nBut I have two argon gas bottles,
\nand one is empty, so I don’t have any shielding gas left.
\nI gave it a try anyway!
 
\n
 
It has a very delicate feel\u2014I kind of like it.
\nThat’s what I thought. I changed the settings and tried all sorts of things.
 
\n
 
Whoa! What is this\u2014it’s gross…
\nWithout gas, it’s pure white\u2014totally oxidized.
\nIf I’m going to get the shielding gas equipment together and do some welding,
\nit’s best to have Ⅰ Yamasan do a little work for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once the new year gets going, there’s so much to do. We swap out files for invoices and delivery slips and toss out papers we don’t need. The inside of my desk drawer is really a mess\u2014what’s all this? Insurance faxes, quotes, request forms… A ton of stuff came out, and once I cleaned it up, it felt great. I even found an empty USB memory stick\u2014lucky! And two 500-yen coins! Inside a McDonald’s bag were titanium scraps rolling around\u2014what is this? Ⅰ Yamasan gave me these practice materials once, saying “try titanium work now and then.” But I have two argon gas bottles, and one is empty, so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-75140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}