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Tomoko

4:44pm JST Tuesday 2 November 2004

Hung out with Teddybear Tomoko today in Kawasaki. I rode TJ Bike there in 20 minutes from Motosumiyoshi. She measured him for the custom stickers she's going to make. I'm really happy about that.

We rocked over to TokyuHands on 5F of Dice and bought some bright yellow tape that I want to tape candystripes around TJs tubes to make him more visible, more unique, and more ghetto. I'll just tape right over the painted lettering; we debated painting over it to cover it, but that end result would be either expensive, or would look ghetto and look like it was *trying* not to look ghetto.

Then we chowed Okonomiyaki on the 8th or so floor of Dice building.

She told me she wants to learn how to make a clock out of brass. Like a real clock.

Woah.

Work

8:43pm JST Tuesday 2 November 2004

I'm now chillin' during the 6th no-show I've had with this student in a row. Not today, but the last 6 times I've had her, I haven't had her.

bike

8:50pm JST Tuesday 2 November 2004

I found www.topofusion.com/divide/ which is basically exactly what I want for a website during/after my long ride(s) around Asia.

hitomi

8:48pm JST Tuesday 2 November 2004

Hitomi wondered if we could successfully bike to Yomiuriland tomorrow. We're going to go for it.

zzz dw

1:41am JST Wednesday 3 November 2004

Met Jen, Tets, Ikumi, et. al at DWs tonight after work. It took me 36 minutes to ride there not including locking TJ Bike.

Usually I stay put in my own little spot (once I select one) at the table, but when I started hearing "Fujiyama" being uttered by peeps at the other end, I helped myself into the seats over there.

Gave my 10 cents worth of yammering about how Fujiyama is money, Dodonpa is weak, Tondemina is basically weak, and the haunted house is weak. Fun to be knowledgeable about something.

That conversation shifted to other topics and I scooted back over to chat with Ikumi and Jen, as people on their end had started to bail out for the night.

It came time to leave, the last trains were heading toward the station. I met the cat named Steve there for 8000 yen of reimbursement for Yahoo!BB and NTT charges at the apartment. He paid in four new 2000 yen bills. Cool.

Ikumi declined a ride with me and TJ Bike back home, so I raced her and Jen back home. I had a five minute head start before their train came, but I got stopped at two pesky traffic lights (after hauling ass down hills only to stop at the bottom) but I tied them at the exit of the train station. I literally rode up as they were coming out of the stairs.

And then, as we were yammering, Shoko came out! So Jen dinked (*) Shoko and I pumped (*) Ikumi back home, with a quick stop at the conveni for Shoko.

Arrived home and found Hitomi chillin' with Riki downstairs, which I was really glad to see her getting the heck out of the boring room and into some conversational situations.

Took a shower and wrote this and going to bed soon.

(*) Aussie and American ways to give someone a ride on bicycle.