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Dreams

6:43am JST Tuesday 18 April 2006 (day 13173)

Fred had a cheesecake box in his room and I aquired it through some transaction (maybe as simple as "here; have this cheesecake", or maybe I proved he should give it to me), but then didn't eat it; and when he fell asleep and I turned off the lights and left the room, Fred had reaquired it. I went back and couldn't find it.

(I'm missing a step in there; the cheesecake was in the other room.)

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Cameron Diaz close up, while being filmed in some movie about how she thinks of kisses as little loops and sometimes wants to get to the stuff after the loops, but then realizes the loops are nice in themselves, and just settles into the loops..

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Surprised to find that I had breasts, though they were a weird shape.

(then realized it was morning woodie)

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many many others, but I didn't wake up to write any of them.. I don't feel like I had any lucid dreams from last night.

Farm1

12:09pm JST Tuesday 18 April 2006 (day 13173)

Back for lunch from working on the farm... today I climbed the remains of the same tree from yesterday and cut out another rather large branch.. I was amazed at how much I had to cut before it fell; I woulda taken a picture, but basically the area of the cross section was the area of my handprint (round and not handprint shaped), and I had to cut all but a thumb print size of the wood before it broke.

Now that is what I call a hardwood tree.

I imagined having the time to cut a set of discs from the branch and sending them to Fred as coasters, leaving the broken part visible to indicate how much had to be cut.

Oh - the strength was apparent given the the branch was rather long, heavy and angling out at about 40 degrees from normal.

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After that I found a few more trees to cut, and one that I was simply able to push repeatedly at its oscillation frequency until the successive constructive wave additions shook the shit over.

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Then I hauled all those branches up to the queue to the fire pit, and two relatively long bamboo stalks(?)/trunks from where they had been thrown down a hill beside the road. Those were fun because they were just heavy and long enough that I could barely get up the hill without sliding down, if I turned my feet sideways and stepped quite carefully.

Then, a big-ass trunk that was far heavier than I could actually lift.... When I cut it down (thinking it would be easy because half of it was rotten) it fell sorta on an incline so that I thought I could perhaps get the wheel barrow under it and wheel it out.

Was in fact able to do that, though it took a lot of manuevering and wiggling around to get the trunk past some other trees (like Pink Panther trying to walk through a door while carrying a ladder in front of him), and then off the rock wall onto the road (during which process I had to dump the trunk because it was certainly going to destroy the old wheel barrow as it went over the edge)... No going back now, the tree was blocking the road so we wouldn't be going back home unless I got it out of the way.

Positioned the wheel barrow and barely was able to lift one side of the tree to get it placed on there, and then with a surprisingly perfectly-balanced lift, the tree was on the wheel barrow, balanced, ready to move.

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Two funny things while I was cutting the first branch:

1. Just as I was set to make the first stroke of the cut, my orange (planned to be my in-tree snack) fell out my hoodie pocket

2. After I cut the branch, and was climbing back out of the tree, a little branch sprang up and removed my glasses.

   yoink!

   I was basically sure they hadn't hit the ground (I know what they sound like when they fall), but I couldn't see them, being pretty blind without them. What a predicament! Tony was using the weed eater in the distance, and would barely be able to hear me if I yelled, and even if I yelled, I didn't know how to say what had happened in Japanese.

   Groped around a bit, then heard/barely saw them fall straight below me.

   Monkeyed my way down the tree and picked them up without actually touching the ground.

1:44pm JST Tuesday 18 April 2006

We just had lunch (spaghetti and miso soup and tuna on lettuce salad); we'll go back for more farming antics at 2:30.

Farm2

6:07pm JST Tuesday 18 April 2006 (day 13173)

This time was quite pleasantly non-difficult, a pleasant last(?) time to work on the farm, where we basically just burned a lot of the bamboo and hardwood branches and trunks I cut yesterday and this morning.

I got an awesome splinter, a bit over a centimeter long, right under the top layer of skin. Bamboo splinters are really strong.

Bamboo is really strong, and I have decided that if I ever build my own house, especially in a bambooie climate, I'm going to make it out of bamboo, or a good part of it. Or at least the tree house will be made of bamboo.

I will be here

8:35am JST Tuesday 18 April 2006 (day 13173)

Koji, Masako, Tony are leaving tomorrow for Nagoya; I'll be here getting my shiznit sorted to continue my journey to Kyoto.. I'll be leaving on the 21st or 22nd. I wonder if I'll have heard from Rich.

Internet Access...

7:22am JST Tuesday 18 April 2006 (day 13173)

Oh shit!!

I found a WiFi signal about 1 minute walk away from here, next to, of all things, a flag advertising Yahoo!BB (Yahoo! Broad Band, which is basically *the* high speed connection used in residences in Japan).

Also, ironically, next to three side-by-side cigarette vending machines, at which Tony sometimes stops to get a pack while on our way to the farm, and I've always thought, "ew what a disgusting habit..." My internet addiction can be filled in the same place!

But, *just* as I was about to upload journal entries, my battery decided four minutes was enough; it was going to sleeeeeeep.

I've switched batteries to the one I got from Paul(? (but I thought he quit Gaba)) via Jesse; I hadn't used it in a while because it also had a short life, but when I put it in, it said 78%, and has been climbing relatively (*) slowly as I type this entry.

(*) slow compared to my other battery.

quick breakfast and then go back to that hotspot...

8:34am JST Tuesday 18 April 2006

Went over, and got the WiFi signal, but

ssh: robnugen.com: No address associated with nodename
lost connection