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About last night

7:34am JST Saturday 10 July 2004

Talked to 睦 about playing frisbee today; we'll meet at 新丸子駅and walk to the river, assuming it's not raining, which the weather says it might. She suggested that I make a little ghost-type doll out of paper to request it not rain. I don't know if it will work, but I made a ghost-shape out of two kleenexes last night before bed.

After arriving home from work, I chatted with Olivia some, looking at pictures with her, finding our favorites from past zaniness so I can compile an album of sorts.

I resisted watching Bruce Almighty, a movie that I rather enjoyed when I watched it in the theater, but instead took a shower and went to bed.

I successfully stayed cool last night by leaving my door open instead of running my air conditioner. I haven't run it since I moved into this apartment. In fact, last night, my electricity was switched off at the meter.

This morning I'm going to Jen's uncle's work instead of Gaba.

Jen's uncle's work

9:11am JST Saturday 10 July 2004

I'm at Jen's uncle's work now, getting everything set up for the day. I arrived a bit early (and took a nap against the wall), and they arrived a bit late (after having eaten breakfast at Mackers).

I've just remembered I had a dream where I couldn't turn the volume down on my computer. Each time I turned it off, it wouldn't be off; like its state (off/on) wasn't correctly indicated by its indicator.

RSS

3:37pm JST Saturday 10 July 2004

Wow. So I'm a bit behind the times, but I've just read about RSS for getting my site syndicated. It looks way easy in concept, but might be a trick for me to set up an automagic way for perl to maintain the feed's items file, and to ping (if necessary?) the different feed readers.

5:22pm

So, .. I'm wondering wbout the best way to store my .. I could just advertise using my existing format, and not worry about setting up titles (more than the filename) nor descriptions. All that shit can be added later once I have an idea of how I'd like to do it.

I have an existing structure; I can just tack an rss descriptor file to my site and have it point to the most recent entries.

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Man I hate people smoking near me..

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I've wanted to sorta have different indexes for my site and allow people to search for different types of entries, etc. Like, if it's all indexed in a db, I can sort stuff by date, or by type of file or whatever criteria (of course).. hey is that mutsumi?

Ultimate

5:18pm JST Saturday 10 July 2004

I'm in 新丸子 to meet 睦さん for a little fris, but it's raining. So it seems we won't be playing ultimate today. Maybe another time. this time has been a long time in planning; I wonder how long next time will take. Oh- I know why; it took me getting off early on a Saturday for us to hang out during daylight.

5:25pm

Wow; it seems to have quit raining; I wonder if she got my message saying don't worry about changing clothes (from work clothes to ultimate clothes), and whether or not she did, if she changed.

8:39pm

Yes that was Mutsumi, and though it was sprinkling, we went to Tamagawa to play disc. She was a messs at first, but quickly got better to the point that we were throwing 20 and 40 tosses without dropping. She did quite well considering how much wind there was. I enjoyed just playing disc for the first time since I've been here. She was smiling bigtime as well, and that helped me enjoy playing more. I got tired first, I think, but kept on tossing cause she was having so much fun. Then I realized that I was tired partly because my feet were hot, so I took of my shoes (which were pretty soggy from the rain) and that helped me lost myself in the moment again.

A dude with a digital video camera was photographing the sunset near us for a while; we wondered why he was doing that; it wasn't a surprising sunset, but, like most sunsets, it was pretty.

We played until the sun set, and then walked to Shin Maruko in search of takoyaki. I got a bit lost on the way to the station; silly angled streets in Tokyo, but pretty soon recovered my way and made it back to Shin Maruko (we had walked so far that I wanted it to be Musashi-Kosugi, but alas..) Outside many stations is a takoyaki cart vendor, but not Shin Maruko tonight. So we took the train to Musashi-Kosugi and chowed 10 takoyaki each.