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5:45am JST Tuesday 25 April 2006 (day 13180)

Awake. Basically. Didn't really wake up with a distinct dream in my brain, though I did have something going on up there. I'm tired for sure, but more anxious to be at the center on time, and not sure about the hills ahead of me. Basically at sea level here in Kobe, and near where I believe the center is the map is labeled 400 some meters.

Thanks to Richard's generous cash donation (20,000 yen), I now actually have *more* cash than when I started in Takadanobaba on 3 April. Like 22,000 and change now. Plus my brakes now work, and I have a new battery charger for my camera battery. (I seem to have foolishly left mine at Jesse's.)

Important to do list

5:55am JST Tuesday 25 April 2006 (day 13180)

These are Things To Do that now seem worth doing (or at least listing on a to do list) (the idea is that the list may seem somehow (very) different after the meditation):

1. Do any necessary maintenance on TJ Bike. Buy an allen wrench that will tighten the pedal bolt (my left pedal fell off last night on the way to Pia's from Richard's work, and is loose already)

2. Write about my trip from Kobe to the meditation center, including pictures, if any are taken)

3. Logging the receipts I have dutifully collected (including 20,000 yen donation from Richard, and 1,000 yen he gave me to buy bread for last night, but I ended up buying 1,050 yen worth, and kicking in the extra 50 yen myself. (Damn, and I left the extras (the non-baguettes) at Pia's house. I hope ひで ends up enjoying them.))

4. Uploading more pictures from my hard drive:

   • from the upcoming ride today

   • those that are in folders on the desktop (marble track, moving from me-an-Wende's house, etc)

   • the final final ones from PB 52

   • the final final final ones from PB 49 (unless I did them already)

   • the ones from Koji's farm

   • from riding to Koji's farm (unless those are done)

5. Incorporating them into my journal entries from those occassions.

6. Updating iPhoto to iPhoto 6 (if it's a free upgrade, which I think it is)

7. Testing the output of saving for web and updating (or hopefully scrapping!) iPhoto_2_legible.pl as necessary.

8. Updating other system software on my computer (though I think it's all up to date at this point)

9. (possibly) trying to figure out why Virex won't get new virus definitions (has a subscription run out??)

10. Ask Zach from World of Where if I can get a registration code (I helped him find some bugs in his previous version of the software (and paid for a registration anyway after he gave me one free); perhaps if I can find bugs in the new version...)

11. Write a State of My Life Address (post meditation version)

12. Write a Rob Update

13. Decide where to go next if I continue TJ Biking: (basic ideas: Nagoya to see Kaz, Nagano to see Eri, somewhere near Fuji to see the peeps who I met on the last day of PB52 (afterward, perhaps Odawara to meet Nachiko), northwest Tokyo to meet Alice and her husband, back into Tokyo), OR escape the country OR plant myself somewhere.

14. Decide what to do next...