Entries this day: AM_Dream Cleaning Gateway_Data1 Gateway_Shower Gateway_data2 Rob_Update class hitomi

AM Dream

before 3:59am JST Thursday 06 January 2005

I was at Amy Leyenberger's house and Mikey and someone else came late and we asked if Amy was still awake, and she wasn't but she got up and then her dad got up and he was really mad that we had come over so late, and I had been having trouble sleeping, so I just went to bed as he was ranting around; Jen had seen that I wanted to say something, but she was like, "don't bother" so I went back to bed and Olivia and Aiko came in and they were being silly as usual and I was being flirtatious with Olivia, but she was having none of it and eventually they left the room and I was able to get some sleep.

3:59am JST Thursday 06 January 2005

I worked for GoogleLabs. I was on a business trip somewhere and coming back, or leaving, but I was in a big office building looking for the right place to go to get food after most food places were closed. I was in Japan, and asked the woman in Japanese what time they werould be open today and she said they were closed for the day. Fair enough. Went to the google cafeteria and on the way was approached by some guys who were acting childish though they were officially businessmen; they were asking me stupid questions like what I was doing and why I wasn't drinking. They were playing marbles and drinking and I wasn't interested in drinking so I didn't play marbles with them, though they knew I liked to play marbles. Just not with drunk people. So I went past them and saw this crazy airplane thing that was outside. It had the tail end of an airplane but was actually a helicopter / jet hybrid that looked like a guppy or something with really big turbine engines on each side of its then fuselage, but there were guys inside the body who had lawn mowing equipment; this was the GoogleLabsLawnService! I was with a guy and we didn't know if this was a military craft or what; would they be upset we were watching (and I was taking pictures with my book?)

We left that area and I asked for orange juice and there was a message from the president or someone asking if anyone esle wanted orange juice for they often had problems wehre they would run out of orange juice, but this wuln't happen again cause they had hired a new guy whose motto was something like breakfast is the most important part of anyone's day.

Cleaning

1:51pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

I've done significant work on cleaning my room today. Put my futon away and have nearly filled a box to send back home, with notes on who gets what. This is me beginning the process of leaving Japan.

I've *got* to write a SOML and send it to my peeps soon.

Right now, I've got to eat.

Gateway Data1

3:55pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

CD/track             Wave II / Threshold 5: Energy Bar Tool
body position        flat on back with legs bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  12 C and rising
clothing             socks, red flannel pants, thick long sleeve shirt, SWD YRUU hoodie, Hitomi-knit cap
working nostril(s)   right
emotional state      calm, wide awake
physical             tight neck muscles, cold feet
head                 tiny bit sore from cold and too much computer
stomach              happy
pain/soreness        neck and head
phone/door	     off/locked
time allowed	     a few hours
ambient light	     overcast daylight through curtains
ambient noise	     limited construction noise and gas heater fan
date/time            4:14pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005
location	     Millenium House, room 20

4:49pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

Fell asleep for most of that. Not much interesting.

Gateway Shower

4:50pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

Going to take a shower now and may come back to try again.

Gateway data2

5:17pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

CD/track             Wave II / Threshold 5: Energy Bar Tool
body position        flat on back with legs bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  19 C
clothing             hitomi-knit cap
working nostril(s)   left and semi-right
emotional state      calm, wide awake
physical             tight back muscles
head                 fine
stomach              fine
pain/soreness        neck and back a little bit
phone/door	     off/locked
time allowed	     1 hour or so
ambient light	     almost none
ambient noise	     gas heater fan
date/time            5:18pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005
location	     Millenium House, room 20

5:57pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

I stayed conscious for most of that one. Didn't have huge ability to visualize the energy bar tool, much less flashing on and off. Felt a little bit let down by that, but tried to release that feeling so it wouldn't keep me down. Was a bit better during the latter part of the exercise.

Rob Update

2:52pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

Hello from a new year in Japan!

I don't really know how long it's been since I've written a mass
update, but I know it's been a while.  I think it's been so long that
I haven't written about my new bicycle.

I got a new bicycle in September or so.  His name is TJ Bike.  TJ
stands for Taihen Jyanai, which I think literally means "big problem,
not" in Japanese.  The idea is that I will ride my bicycle from Tokyo
to the north island of Japan in March or April 2005.  When I need to
ride across a big mountain or river or mud bog, I can say "no problem!
taihen jyanai!" and ride across.

My friend Tomoko made stickers for TJ Bike that I will apply before I
go.  I bought saddlebags for the front and back so I can carry a tent
and sleeping bag and food.

TJ Bike and I have gone as far as Yoyogi Station, which takes us about
75 minutes.  We made that trek two or three times on days that I did
Chinese-English language exchange with Shufen.  TJ Bike and I have
also ridden to Shibuya a few times (55 minutes away) for Japanese
lessons, and have ridden to Jiyugaoka many many times (30 minutes) for
work.  However, once the weather turned cold, we quit riding.  One of
us doesn't like cold weather. (hint: right now TJ Bike is naked and
I'm wearing about three layers of clothing and two knit caps.)

I'm doing computer work on the weekends and teaching English during
the week.  I'm once again out debt and beginning to save some money.

A couple months ago, while wondering what I want to do when I grow up,
and knowing that computers are getting smarter and smarter, I decided
that whatever I do should be something that computers cannot
conceivably do within my lifetime, which could conceivably be long
given advances in health technology.  So, I decided to do some
research in astral/dream/out-of-body stuff that modern science doesn't
really embrace right now.  To that end, I bought hemi-synch CDs that
I learned about from the Monroe Institute in Virginia.

I have been listening to one or more exercises almost every day, and
have been keeping relatively careful record of my experiences.  They
are scattered throughout my journal in entries that include
"gateway_data" in the title.

About two weeks ago, I learned that my computer-job boss "has a swami"
in India.  I was like, "wow!  I'd love to meet him," so we called them
and I got an email address.  I emailed them, but so far no response.
I imagine the tsunami could have something to do with that.

About two weeks ago, there were some huge tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Yesterday I decided to forgo my adventure with TJ Bike and go help out
starting in March.  March 26, to be exact, which will be 2 years to
the day that I left Dallas for Japan.  I remember that day well.

Today I started cleaning up my room, beginning the process of leaving
Japan.  I wonder where TJ Bike will go while I'm in tsunami help mode.

I hope you're well.

    - Rob!

class

8:08pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

Class with oops I forgot her name was good. Worked on any, every, some, none and else.

hitomi

8:09pm JST Thursday 06 January 2005

I asked Hitomi to come help me study tonight. She called me from Shibuya station a couple minutes after my lesson finished. There was something so ... heartstring tugging about her simple, clear and direct statement.

"I'm lost."

I don't know if it was her cuteness or the fact that I don't hear direct statements very often or what. But I was like, "awwww" and I just wanted to move the world to fix it for her.

Instead, I gave my phone to the guy behind the counter.

12:03am JST Friday 07 January 2005

Thanks to Hitomi for helping me study a lot before my lesson tomorrow.