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AM camera

8:20am JST Monday 11 October 2004

Okay, I've got to start bringing my camera again. This one wasn't as critical; the item of interest will still be there tomorrow. There are new columns being built over Motosumiyoshi station. The station is beginning a tremendous transformation; it won't be recognizable from its current self.

AM dream

3:14am JST Monday 11 October 2004

I just woke up from a lovely dream with janette:

I had just taken a shower and had to walk back to my house a block away, or actually it was longer than that; I hadn't taken into account something when I started the shower, so I had to walk a long way. When I went outside, janette was coming back! I was really happy that I got to see her. She was walking three big dogs and I was joking like, "you should just let them go inside" the joke being that they would go anywhere but inside, or that they would even go anywhere together, now that she was this close to the end of completing a successful walk with three big dogs. She went inside, and I waited and then

we were at a big multi-story grocery store, and janette was pushing the cart and I saw a TV advertisement for a kids' breakfast cereal that had been translated to Japanese versions, and I was reading the Japanese on the ad and translating it for janette. She already understood it all, and had already seen the ad, (or maybe wasn't interested in watching Japanese ads on tv in a grocery store,) so she went on to the checkout counter. The groceries were being checked out and I saw that after the cereal commercial was a beer commercial, so I yelled across the entire place to jantte, "and beer flavor!!" because even if she had seen it before, I'm sure she hadn't seen *that* part.

She bought the groceries and then went behind a partition to put them in bags (we must have been in a Japanese style grocery store) and I also tired of the commercial and ran over to where she was, but she was gone! There was an elevator behind the partition! That sneaky girl was trying to sneak up on me! I ran back to where I had been, so I could sneak up on her sneaking up on me, and I just barely didn't make it; she was coming up the elevator on my side, and we had a good laugh.

Life is so much fun with janette!!!!

I called janette to tell her about the dream. She wasn't home, but I left a message (in two parts, cause I got cut off) on her answering machine. I hope she's doing awesome happy stuff!

Grrr

12:58pm JST Monday 11 October 2004

Fuck. In the US if one pays for a service that is not performed, one has one's money refunded.

After the typhoon, Jen and I paid for tickets for a train line that was out of service. We received little cards by queueing up in the exit line; I thought they were some sort of receipt "yes you were here on typhoon mess-up day." Today I went to try and get our money back, but no. I had our tickets and the receipts. But the dude was like, "this is from yesterday, but you can go through." I know it was from fucking yesterday, dipshit; I was here and I want my money back.

I couldn't think of the word for receive, so I asked if it was okay for money to return, using the verb for [return home].

Grr. That dude is a stupid ass bitch.

Work

1:03pm JST Monday 11 October 2004

Work was cancelled today due to software malfunction of an otherwise unknown variety. Still got 10,000 yen for my efforts.

computer chat with Hitomi

12:53am JST Tuesday 12 October 2004

Hitomi and I chatted on iChat for a while, and just as she was going to bed, she tried the telephone button. It worked!!! We were able to talk in realtime voice without paying for a phone call! I think I'll call this new amazing technology Voice Over IP. I'll go back in time and start people using the acronym. brb.

I was flabbergasted for a moment, but I got over it after a while. I'm really glad she tried it; that was neat.

And it could be a cool way for she and I to have English classes. I can type corrections far faster than I can write them, and I can do other stuff while she's trying to think of what to say. Coooool.

computer chat with Stephanie

12:56am JST Tuesday 12 October 2004

Stephanie chatted with me a bit; she's doing well, and is going to send me a present soon. yay! She seemed really impressed with my bicycle plan, and as I told her about it, I was like, "fuck."

We're going to send each other leaves in the mail.

She asked about janette, and I had to report that I didn't know, but I hope she's well.

site

1:01am JST Tuesday 12 October 2004

I've got a bit of a start on the new backend for my website. Just a little perl thing that recursively goes through all my directories until it's sniffed all the files. Right now it just sniffs the filenames and doesn't actually smurf the files. Ya smell me?

I talked a bit to Ikumi, who is feeling a bit blue. I would love to get into her brain a little bit more. We'll see how that goes.