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Today

9:38pm AZOT Sunday 05 February 2006

Fighting Goats were quiet today.

Fantastic Rabbits were fantastic today. They made a gameboard, and played it, getting about halfway through. They'd like to finish up the game tomorrow.

I studied a lot of Japanese today, although my 'official' teacher, Akane, didn't show up. I think she is busy with Global University stuff. Instead I let Mami check my work the second time she came by to say HI.

Did laundry by hand in the shower. When I stepped out, I announced, "my clothes and I are clean."

GET Meeting was soon thereafter, and then dinner (formal dinner tonight; I put a suit jacket on over my t-shirt, shorts and sandals. No tie. No socks. No belt. I went in with my student Tamami (Angelina), who was wearing casual cotton). Ate a lot lot lot of food. The vegetarian meal was quite huge, filling and delicious. The girl across the table from me was wearing a shirt depicting Pong, as in the original video game. I told her I liked the shirt, and then explained to them what it was. Basically, they were born around the same time as that game.

Just a bit ago, I finished my plan for the open lessons I've got to do tomorrow. I'll be sharing the plan with みさと at 10:30.

hitomis camera

1:08am AZOT Monday 06 February 2006

Mate. Modern digital cameras are pretty densely constructed. Tonight I began taking Hitomi's apart so I can clean the sand out of it after our adventure in Namibia's sand dunes.

(( I should have used my camera, in its waterproof and sandproof case. ))

It's taken me a couple of hours to get 33 some-odd screws / pieces apart. After about 12 screws, I went back and labeled each screw (wrapped each one in tape and labeled the tape) because they were too similar to readily identify specific ones as needed.

So far, I basically have the flash unit off - the flash and capacitor are like a set. I am close to getting the screen off the back, but am a bit stuck on that. I locked the screen back down and wrapped the case back around the gutted camera, put that in its fake-leather holder and put everything into the extra safe in our bedroom.