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AM

9:25am JST Friday 04 February 2005

Going to Japanese lesson now; Ayana asked that we start at 10:30 instead of 10. I was like "１０：３０いいねzzzz"

Last night I switched my phone to Japanese mode. That will help me learn kanji. I prolly could have done this sooner with nil ill effect.

Lesson

12:20pm JST Friday 04 February 2005

Lesson with Ayana was cool; I read a lot of stuff I had written and learned two variants of a new grammar that can be used when hoping for the future.

Lesson nihongo

2005年02月04日12時14分（金）

今日のレスンはよかた。いぱい書いた文を読んで、新しブンポを勉強した。 新し文のたとえば：「明日仁美と北海度に行く。天気がいいといいんだけど。」

新し単語：

集める　（あつめる）：　先生はしゅくだいを集めた。

似ている　（にている）：　「ぬ」と「ね」は似ている。

国内　（こくない）：　日本の中のりょうこう

海外　（かいがい）：　日本のほかのでりょうこう

内臓　（ないぞう）：　内臓は体の中がある。

State of My Life

12:23pm JST Friday 04 February 2005

Steit of Mai Laife A Dress

1. I live in Millenium House in Motosumiyoshi, but I'm planning to possibly move soon.

2. However, my plan has shifted to maybe riding my bike around Japan a lot, using Motosumiyoshi as a base at first, and then breaking free of the apartment and then breaking free of Japan altogether when Maggie gets married in the fall and going to see her wedding.

3. Two nights ago I met a man who is 3/4ths of the way around the world (on his bicycle). I also met Andrew, but I haven't met him since that night. We plan to hang out soon and he may sell me some travel-by-bike gear that I'll need, as he is leaving Japan soon(er than me).

4. My computer is my Mac 667 MHz PowerBook G4 with 1 MB L3 cache, 512MB RAM, 30GB HD with 708MB free. OS X 10.3.7

5. I have some knotboards that I want to sell on Yahoo Auction, but I haven't been able to get past a certain point in the registration process.

   I also have some drawers that are unused and good for sellin'. Same problem.

6. I don't have any pets.

7. Hitomi and I plan to go to Hokkaido for 4 days and 3 nights, starting tomorrow..

8. I still work at Gaba every Monday, Tuesday and Friday. My plan is to keep that up until March 15th. I will talk to my manager about extending that; I'll need to sign a new contract, but I'll tell him that I might not be there all the time.

9. That way I could get a visa extension for ayear and be legally able to roam around Japan for a while longer.

10. I have TJ Bike and MimiBike, but I haven't put the stickers that Tomoko made for me on TJ Bike. TJ Bike lives in my room these days.

11. My room is a mess but is getting better.

12. I still work at OM on the weekends. Do very few quintarks now; mostly just data entry.

    I was sick last week, but OM paid me anyway. And he'll pay me for when I'm gone to Hokkaido. Nice.

13. I had tonsillitis last week. Oh my god that was painful.

14. I ordered a GPS a long time ago and had it sent to my dad's house (cause they wouldn't send it to an address that didn't match my credit card) but he hasn't forwarded it to me. Or at least I haven't gotten it yet, and he hasn't responded to my email asking wtf it is.

    I just called him and left a message to see if he's received it and if he's sent it.

15. I'm not sure if I will take my computer with me everywhere around Japan, but that is why I should practice for a while first. Get used to wazzap and make it happen.

16. I use thunderrabbit@gmail.com to store my email (54 megs (5%) so far) and rob@robnugen.com as my primary email address.

17. I've recently gotten an email from Wende, who I hadn't heard from in a while. I was glad to get reconnected. She's less addicted to email than I, so she doesn't write as often as I do. It's still nice to have the connection again.

18. I've been in pretty consistent contact with Fred and Dude via gmail.

19. Haven't felt any decent earthquakes in Tokyo in a while.

20. I've all but given up the idea of volunteering in Tsunami area; I may just go there for a vacation to help their economy that way.

21. I need to get my Pboat appplication done and sent in. It's due in early March.

Work

7:30pm JST Friday 04 February 2005

Got into a bit of trouble at work. A student said one of her instructors told her that conversation was more important than the graphs, and intruduced the idea of going to Starbucks to study.

She didn't say who it was, and I don't think it was me, but it could have been.

zzzz

1:30am JST Saturday 05 February 2005

I've been doing computer stuff; tweaking the format of long forgotten journal entries and sending out 7 gmail invites (Jimmy accepted already!) cause they just boosted me to 50 invitations and reading old school private journal entries. My patterns change slowly over the years.

In a few hours it's wakeup and go to Hokkaido time!