Entries this day: AM Bike Earthquake! confluence.org

AM

1:48pm JST Wednesday 6 October 2004

Yesterday was rainy so I didn't ride to work. I'm still looking for a way to get GPX files projected onto China maps online.

I don't want to write it from scratch (definitely not), and I don't really want to write it using toolkits that are being developed under GPL.

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Today I researched a bit, did laundry, cooked rice, and wrote three doublespaced pages of Japanese. The story of buying my bicycle and riding to Shibuya. The ride to Shibuya story is not finished, and it wasn't eventful, really, but is just for practicing Japanese.

I'm considering rewriting the backend of my website. I've determined that I don't want to mess with the directory structure, which would break a bunch of links, but just add a layer of DB with URLs to all the files. It will know a bit about each file and be able to display types of files. Show me all journal entries written in Japanese about bicycling. Oh fuck; that would mean I need to allow for Japanese keywords in the database. I assume MySQL can handle it, but I don't know.

I looked on the map and found that Shinagawa is closer than Shibuya to my house, so I'm going to ride there today (to hang with Teddybear Tomoko) at 5pm.

Bike

7:45pm JST Wednesday 6 October 2004

Rode to Shinagawa TGI Friday's in 1 hour, including getting a bit lost. At one point, near Gotanda station, there is a cool part that goes downhill with traffic. I was like zoooooom downhill with traffic. Awesome. And I didn't die nor wreck.

But I did get a bit lost. I thought Gotanda station was Shinjuku station and I was stopped, trying to orient myself at that station and I just couldn't recognize anything.

Asked some people and crossed Keihin Kyuko line, which was pretty cool; big red trains on angled curved tracks.. Ah man I should have taken a picture. Oh well.

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Tomoko et. al. were not at Friday's when I arrived, so I had a moment to change into fresh clothing. They arrived soon thereafter and they asked about Hitomi. I told them I had forgotten to ask her, and I specified why things were a bit hectic in our lives. I showed them the pics of us at Dan's Hihi and Byebye parties and at Fujikyu, etc.

Miyuki showed up and I decided to call Hitomi, but she was still at work so she couldn't come chow with us. I was like, [I'm with Tomoko and, uh, my Mt Fuji friends at TGI Friday's in Shibuya..] Tomoko said, [Mt Fuji friends] "that's you guys." Hitomi was still at work though.

Most of the conversation was indecipherable for me; there was too much ambient noise in the room, but I could tell that overall I am getting better. I could at least parse most of Tomoko's words, though I didn't know their meanings.

Miyuki didn't say a whole lot either; she's a good listener like me. She would happily give her thoughts when asked, but would rarely just jump into the conversation.

Dinner was great and Sumidasan paid. I'm thankful for that. No karaoke tonight, but they scoped TJ Bike and Tomoko said she could make stickers to uniquely label it. We'll probably use my kanji and stuff.. not sure yet.

Byebye and watched them go and wow Miyuki had nice stockings and short skirt.

I went back to the hotel restroom to sit and write this and get ready for the ride back. Hitomi called me and said she was finished with work. Pooh on timing.

Earthquake!

11:47pm JST Wednesday 6 October 2004

WOW!!!!!

BEST EARTHQUAKE EVER!

It lasted for like 30 seconds; started with vertical and had awesome side to side; supa supa awesome!

Richard said it was reported as a weak 5 on the Japanese scale, and he guesses that translates to 6.2 on richter scale. Wow!

confluence.org

12:34am JST Thursday 7 October 2004

I just found the Confluence Project. Cool.