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state of my life

9:04pm CST Tuesday 28 February 2006

Given that it's just about a new month, and I have free time, I'll work on a

State of My Life Address

1. I'm on PBs 52nd voyage around the world.

2. We will be anchored outside Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in two days. We will get about 8 hours on the island. This will be my first time to Rapa Nui.

3. We have 8 or so more days of GET classes, the speech contest, group project presentations, graduation and prom to go, and then we're Off The Boat!

4. I haven't really kissed anyone on the ship.

5. I recently got an email from Katt from the 49th voyage; she just wanted to say HI and see how the voyage was going. I hadn't heard from her in a while, after I said No and ever since she got off my Rob Update list, I thought I might not hear from her again, so I was glad she wrote.

6. One of my trusted friends said she got a weird vibe from one of my romantic interests on the ship. Every time female friends have given me such warnings, they have turned out to be right. Well, both times.

7. Rei and I haven't really talked in a while, save a bit of chocolate exchange, but we haven't spent any time together really.. definitely no dates, and I think it will stay that way. sigh. I still really think she's supa awesome.

8. I don't have any pets.

9. I'm still using my first Macintosh laptop: G4 Powerbook with 677MHz CPU and 512 Meg ram and 30 Gig HD. 14 inch screen that flickers at the bottom and I have to hit the side of the computer to get it to turn on. Touchpad mouse, non-touch-sensitive screen (I'm expecting touch-screens will be the norm "soon"), only rudimentary voice recognition (not good enough to use), no external mouse.

10. My website is robnugen.com.

    thunderrabbit at-mark gmail dot com is my email storage address, and anything at my domain is forwarded to that address.

11. robnugen.com refreshes to my daily journal. The journal is indexable by about 8 different topics, including YRUU, dreams, ultimate, nihongo, sleepy, all, and maybe others. Also available on my site: my blog, travel entries (which are now updated automagically with my Rob Update Emailer), YRUU (primarily Silent Football), and writings (primarily old crap).

    My journal and travel writings are updated regularly. All the others are collecting dust.

    Images are not easily accessible from the top navigation, but there are pictures available, embedded in my journal, or if people hand enter robnugen.com/images

12. My journal entries are archived daily and emailed to my gmail account. Each archive is about 4 megs. I think there are a lot of pictures included, back when I put images in the same directories as my journals.

13. I haven't worked for money in nearly a year.

14. Not sure what I'll do when I get back to Japan. I told Matt that I'm interested in doing the 54th voyage, and in an "I'll do whatever brown-nosing it takes to do that" way, I've said I am interested in doing the pre-departure GET classes, but I'd actually like to just ride TJ Bike to Kyoto, do the 10 day meditation, then do fuck-all and ride around the country, seeing if I can sustain myself off the generosity of strangers.

15. Shit; I just realized I haven't given Matt my email to Natalie expressing my interest cited above.

16. I haven't found (and don't expect to find) my 512Meg keychain USB card (which fell out of my Pooh Bear branded plastic case after not taping it back together in Buenos Aires).

17. I'm still using my J-PHONE from when I first came to Japan in March 2003. I probably got it around 2 April 2003. I'm not sure if it will work once I get back to the country. (since there is no money in my bank account, but Vodafone still wants to be paid..)

18. I didn't get much of an email from Hitomi in the last port.

19. I still haven't spent any money on the ship.

20. I'm wearing no jewelry; I have no piercings nor tattoos. I forgot to ask Hime about her tattoos; we got sidetracked with calculating our respective 500-day anniversaries.

21. My computer gets too hot, especially when plugged in, so I have a fan that plugs into the USB port. I don't use the fan all the time, but when I do, it often sounds like the bearings are going bad in one of the fan spindles.

22. I don't have a pilot's license, and basically no plans to get one, though sometimes I think it would be neat.

23. I don't have a driver's license in Japan, and plan not to get one because I don't want to drive on the left.

24. I do have a scuba diver's license. Mine.

25. I am still looking for my next big project in life.

26. I gots to go to bed.

27. Sometimes I look back on my life and see janette as the best girlfriend I've ever had. I think I should go back to her and be settled. Then I think about Paige and wonder if she could be the one, 'cept for the detail that I don't really know her. Then I wonder if I'm just on the same pattern with no end in sight.

28. I floss my teeth at least once or twice every day.

    I brush my teeth at least 2 or 3 times every day.

    I've been wearing my mouthguard every night since before I broke up with Wende (therefore since before September 2001)

29. I haven't heard from Wende in a while, but I wrote to her on 24 Feb, for her birthday.

30. I just brushed my teeth and noticed my chest hair is about 1 cm long, after being buzzed about 2 weeks ago.

31. I've been using a USB phone charger that Jesse gave me before this trip.

32. I've not taken any pictures recently.

33. I forgot to bring Francois to the video team meeting at 3pm today; I told them I would at least bring him, but didn't know if I could attend. I guess I couldn't attend.