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Dream

8:13am JST Thursday 23 September 2004

Last night I woke up with a start from a scary dream that I was in a room and the door closed and a spooky wind came and it was pitch black.

Different dreams during the night:

Simon from my work was being ostracized because he's Irish. We were in a group and one guy fought another guy to the death. And then Simon had to fight to the death. But instead, he tried to talk his way out of it, and when that didn't work, he ran away. I wanted to help him, and I knew he was hiding in the library. I found him there, sneaking around, always watching over his shoulders, etc. He had made friends with some of my adult YRUU advisors who were in a meeting discussing the nest rally or something. It was determined that Denise Atkerson would be the best person to call; she always knew how to do things, and knew what was going on behind the scenes.

The scene switched to Jesse and I trying to find a way to make money, maybe if Simon were rich, he could have his attackers killed.

I was riding my bike and I saw an error message at the bottom of the screen, like, "tires destroyed," but I looked down at my tires and they were fine. I looked down at the tires on the guy next to me and they were fine. We both stopped, and talked about it. I told him what I had seen, and thought I must have been dreaming, but I knew I wasn't. I checked by jumping and came back down again, so I wasn't dreaming then, either. But then I did one other test or something and determined that I had been dreaming, but was not dreaming now. "So we must have been dreaming; there are no TV displays on our bicycles!" And we gave eachother five for such amazing detective work, and I woke up.

climbing

1:29pm JST Thursday 23 September 2004

Hitomi and I are climbing a stream rocky and I got a video of her climbing. She's definitely girly about spiders, but she doesn't mind climbing on rocks. Nice.

We found a toilet available for public anti-consumption, but I don't have a GPS to let me list it in findatoilet.net.

On the way here, we saw a woman walking along the road. More high heels. Now, yes, she could have been on her way home from work. And yes, she could have found the most comfortable high heels in the world. But, it seems to me that sneakers would be even *more* comfortable. No one was around to see (except me and Hitomi); throw those heels in a bag and put on some comfy shoes! She was walking on rocky not-smooth asphalty concrete with hills and bumps and occassional metal grates.. Wow.

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Hitomi and I climbed down into the concreted riverbed and went upstream. I noticed a strange something that I couldn't identify and then realized it was a set of spillways designed to slowly let the water downhill. Back and forth troughs which made for easy climbing. I had Hitomi close her eyes, or at least not look up as I led her down to the bottom of the spillway. When we reached the bottom, I had her look up at it. She was like, "wow!" cause it was almost certainly an unexpected view of sloping angles in an otherwise somewhat random looking terrain. We climbed the trough without incident. This pic is Hitomi looking down the thing we had climbed. The dam to the right is described on the plaque below:

12.5 meters tall, 102.3 meters long, 8,210.9 cubic meters maximum capacity. I like how the measurements keep getting more precise.

I had a great time climbing on places that I wasn't allowed to climb. What was funniest: we had climbed up the stream and found the DO NOT ENTER sign from the back.

We headed a bit higher up the stream, and found a smaller, more easily accessible mesh. Hitomi got a video of me climbing it, but I wasn't particularly fast. I took these while seated on top of the mesh.

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There was a James Bond wire pulley thing at a kiddy park near all the dams and rocks and stuff.

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going home

11:48am JST Friday 24 September 2004

On the way back, we had plenty of time to get the express train, but we wondered if we would have time to take the local train *back* to Lawson to get some food and get the express train back home...

According to the (quite reliable) train guides, we would have seven minutes at Fujikyu Highland station to run to the convenience store and be back before the express train came.

We devised our plan: Hitomi would take the local train back to the end/first station, so she could be sure to get a seat. She would sit in the last car on the train, so we'd know where to meet each other. I would get off the local train at FKH station, run to Lawson to grab some food and then come back.

We did that, and I even had a minute to spare (well, 30 seconds given that I also had to get across the tracks before the train came through). Hitomi had a tiny change, though: she had secured a spot in the last car, but as the train approached the station, the announcer was like, "only the first three cars will stop at the platform." The train was longer than the platform, so she had to run to one of the cars that I'd actually be able to see to confirm she had made it, etc.

seti

10:46pm JST Thursday 23 September 2004

Wow!

My stats on Seti@home are pretty cool.

As of today, it says this: