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State of My Life Address

6:45pm JST Thursday 7 October 2004

State of My Life Address

1. I am single. I broke up with Hitomi because I wasn't allowing myself to spend time away from her. She was living with me and I felt obligated to be home for her.

   We are still talking, and she wants to live with me just on the weekends. I'll tell her no when I talk to her this Saturday. Basic reason: something like, ".." hell I don't know.

2. I'm working at Gaba three days per week: Monday, Tuesday, Friday. I'm working at OM on Saturday and Sunday. Officially OM is a computer related job. It's not exactly that, though.

3. I have a bicycle named TJ Bike. TJ stands for 大変じゃない (たいへんじゃない) "taihen jyanai" [no problem]. Bike stands for 自転車 （じてんしゃ）"jitensha" [bicycle].

   Pictures are online here.

4. I'm planning to begin a bike ride in March from Tokyo to Hokkaido, and then to the bottom of Honshu and maybe take a boat to some of the islands south of the main island and then, if all is well, I'll take a boat to Korea and ride across Korea, then a boat to China and ride to Southeast Asia and then north to Mongolia and Russia and then across Europe and boat to New York and then ride to Texas.

   I have no idea how long it will take, but probably years.

   For now, I've been practicing by riding from my house to Jiyugaoka (25 minutes), Shibuya (55 minutes), Yoyogi (70 minutes), and once to Shinagawa (55 minutes).

5. I'd like to carry a GPS around with me and upload my tracklogs to a website and be tracked online. I haven't yet found a site that will track me though.

6. I don't yet own a GPS, but since I want one for my trip and because I'm out of debt, I may get one soon.

7. I recently found the site called Confluence Project. It's cool, and I think I'd like to help out.

8. I'm studying Japanese once a week in Shibuya. I can slowly tell stories (with low vocabulary) and explain what I want and describe people and things and my pronunciation is generally good.

9. I'm studying Chinese twice a week plus once a month. I can pronounce some of the syllables and read maybe ten kanji. Right now I can only think of about seven kanji that I can read.

10. My computer is still my Macintosh G4 with 30Gig HD and 512Meg RAM and DVD-R CD-RW drive. I'm still quite happy with it.

11. I'm still living in Millenium House, and my address is still the same. BUT, without me changing my residence, my address will change. All the blocks in my area are being renumbered and all the buildings within those blocks will be renumbered as well. I have no idea why.

    I haven't notified anyone of the impending change. Well, besides you.

12. Wende got married on October 3rd. I sent her mental hugs and love. I cried a bit. Ironically, I was in the middle of breaking up with Hitomi at the same time as Wende's wedding. I wrote a blessing/apology letter to Wende and one to her parents.

13. I haven't done anything with the domain chatbotchats.com. You can buy it from me if you want. $10 US via paypal.

14. My journal is still being run primarily with journal.pl, with the indexing code that was written primarily by Fred. I'm considering writing a new MySQL driven thing so people can search for types of stuff more easily and have different ways to view stuff. Optimally, I'd like to have a site with my journal and images and stuff in different languages. I just write whatever language I want that day and people can select the most recent things that were written in the language of their choice.

    I won't change the filesystem, but just have a DB that points to the different URLs and knows the type of content at each URL.

15. I am in negotiations with Dennis from my I-group to play a betting game with him. I'll place bets on his behalf, up to 2000 yen per month, and he'll deposit in my US paypal account the equivalent value in US dollars.

    I'll pay the 2000 yen out of my pocket, and if he wins I'll send money back home, minus approximately $30 US because it costs that much to wire money overseas.

16. I don't have any debt; I paid janette the remainder of what I owed her plus a thankyou bonus at the end of August I think. Last month was my first month recently to just flat save money. Not including buying TJ Bike.

17. I don't have any pets.

    I assume Spot is still a happy cat with Jen in Houston.

    I assume Jen is still a happy cat owner with Spot in Houston.

18. I haven't been in touch with janette, Maggie, Molly, Meredith, Kristen, the Katherine's, nor my brother in a while. My brother the shortest while, janette the second shortest, Molly the third, Maggie fourth, then Kristen, then Meredith, then Catherine, then Kathryn.

    There's something about release to be learned here.

19. I haven't done BBST in a while.

20. Life changes every day.

Today

6:32pm JST Thursday 7 October 2004

Today from 10 to noon I traded English for Chinese instruction. Today we got a quiet room in which to study, but my tape recorder didn't work for some reason. Not sure what. The wheels seemed to turn, but it wouldn't play. I don't know if it would record and not play or neither or what.

Took a bit of a nap after toying with website redesign. I was like, okay, so basically, I want to

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Whew I'm tired; now is a good time for a nap.

I napped for about an hour and then rode TJ Bike to Yoyogi for my Chinese lesson with Shufen. Didn't get lost this time, and it's over an hour ride.

She was tired and didn't want to study much English, but she (and I) was pleased with my progress; my pronunciation is much better; she asserts that I can pronounce all the Chinese sounds. I agree that I can pronounce all the initial sounds and all the final sounds, but I haven't put them all together yet, and I haven't done the tones for most of them, and I sure can't do them quickly, BUT, I'm getting better.

Now I'm in Gakugeidaigaku for a private English lesson with Mika at 7pm. But she cancelled the last lesson (our first scheduled lesson after our initial meeting) and hasn't confirmed this lesson nor responded to my attempted confirmation, so I'm not sure that she'll come.

After this, I'm going to Jimmy's house to watch Olympics that his dad taped; he has womens' gymnastics. Awright.

I'll probably crash out there; I need to be in Shibuya in the morning and Nakamegura is way closer to Shibuya than (it is to) my house (is).