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Dan

12:43pm JST Friday 23 July 2004

Today is the big day. This morning on the way to class I picked up the train cards that I had custom made from a photo of Dan standing with mannequins at a clothing store, and a photo of me wearing Dumbo ears at Disneyland.

Dan collects train cards, but I don't think he knows that we can make arbitrary photos into train cards. I wonder if they would allow naked train cards or slanderous cards to be made?

I've got "approximately 8.2 thousand train cards" for Dan (to which he'll reply, "ah, wait, I've just counted, and I have just over 11 million train cards," and then I'll say, "oh, but these are just the ones I've collected for you this morning. I have the rest in a warehouse in the Port of Tokyo.") and I've kept forgetting (honestly) to grab them from a little paperclip hook above my door each time I head out to hang out with Dan.

I can't forget today!!!

Now: I'm not sure if it will be cooler to have his train card in the very back of the pile, or mixed in the middle of the pile as if it's not a big deal. I've got nothing that trumps this card, so I can't pretend like there's something cooler coming. So, I'm not sure on this one. We'll see what happens.

ps: right now I'm at the govt office where I'll pick up my visa so I'll be legal again. My visa has officially expired, but the new one was available before I was illegal; I just didn't pick it up in time. I hope it will be no problemo.

Train

3:07pm JST Friday 23 July 2004

The Toyoko line has been down for more or less an hour. They seem to be saying it will be cool soon though.

dan!

12:51am JST Saturday 24 July 2004

Dan loved his train card!

I set it up really well, and don't have time to write it all now, but suffice to say he liked it lots.

We were sitting on some sideways facing steps in Jiyugaoka, between the Gaba building and the next over building and I was like, "these are the runnerups; you can just fling them over your head without a care." After he went through them, I was like, "okay; are you ready?" and had him put away all the other cards lest he accidentally fling the others in the air. Then I showed him the next stack, at the bottom of which were some fake best cards. Like a golf card and a milk card.

He was like, "mate... I like them; I really do; um. I'll keep them right here..."

And I was like, "I'm just fuckin' with you. For real. Honestly. The next stack of cards has your card in it."

He goes, "I'm shaking; it's like I'm nervous; what if I don't like it?" and stuff, and then he started going through the stack and at the last minute he was like, "I can't look!" and he put the card on the ground and covered it up with his coke can.

Finally, we were like, "okay; this is it; I gotta be in my seat at work in 18 minutes.." and then he scoped it. And he loved it.