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AM late start

11:21am JST Friday 19 May 2006 (day 13204)

Kazzah got off to a late start this morning, like "oh shit; it's 8:30!" when she usually tries to leave by around then, but I think she still left for work on time enough to make it on time.

I basically woke up, meditate/slept sitting up for 50 minutes, then slept for another hour, and now am awake for sheezy, about to bring the pudding and chinese veggies we/she made last night to her office where I'll have internet all day. yay!

Dwindling to do list

12:07am JST Thursday 18 May 2006 (day 13203)

Things to do

* = finished;

1. * change my financial passwords

2. * write to Saki

3. move /travel/Palestine/2005_olive_harvest/one_shade.jpg and two_shades.jpg

4. see what pictures have been uploaded

   1. * 2005_dec_17_packing-spocha

   2. * inline_journal_images

   3. * inline_journal_images/dan_lately/

   4. * inline_journal_images/fkh_2004_sep_21/

   5. * inline_journal_images/fooj/

   6. * inline_journal_images/official_byebye_party/

   7. * inline_journal_images/olivia_byebye/

   8. * inline_journal_images/rob_in_suit/

   9. * inline_journal_images/secret_byebye_party/

   10. inline_journal_images/thumbs/

   11. * japan

   12. kyoto_nara_kamakura (handle this one later)

   13. * nooj

   14. not_sure_what_these_are

   15. the_rest

   16. thumbs

   17. tjbike

   18. tjbike.bak

5. move pictures out of /images/journal directories

6. delete these from my local /journal/images directory

7. create more albums in images/need_to_upload

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

9. Uploading more pictures from my hard drive:

   • from Kobe to meditation center

   • 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)

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

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

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

13. figure out what I have transcribed from PB 52 journal

14. list below what I need to transcribe from PB 52 journal

15. transcribe Japanese journal from PB 52

16. write card to あかね

17. mail November card to Delphine

18. mail card to あかね

19. write birthday reminder code

20. read email

21. research auto-geotagging camera

22. start looking into how to do googlemaps again. draw that red line!

23. look for official US govt info regarding Airplane Day

    archive it

24. make a note to look again in (each year for) 10 years

25. in 10 years, look up public school textbooks about Airplane Day

26. archive proof against govt version physics911, etc

27. add birthday field to Rob Updates db

28. add birthdays:

    1. Rei, May 2nd

    2. Slavena, 17 February

29. write comic snagger with on/off switch

30. allow Rob Updates to change directory

31. think about writing site_visualizer; look for a free version

32. think about how logfiles can be sent to me

33. look in to marketing Francois branded cups and shirts

34. write to Jimmy regarding Francois branding

35. offer to take teddybear Tomoko's teddybear up Mt Fuji

36. login to quicken/turbotax to do taxes.

37. 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...)

38. Write a Rob Update

39. Decide where to go next if I continue TJ Biking: (basic ideas:

    1. ? somewhere near Fuji to see the peeps who I met on the last day of PB52

    2. Odawara to meet Nachiko

    3. ? northwest Tokyo to meet Alice and her husband

    4. back into Tokyo), OR escape the country OR plant myself somewhere.

40. Decide what to do next...

41. comment on http://www.yruuspider.com/

Funny email to g

Puzzle Boxes

g -

These are things I did not get you in Japan yesterday (*).  The house
puzzle boxes on the left are far more complicated to open than say, a
soap bubble.  They require 2 moves.  The box on the right is 21 moves.
I asked the woman about the biggest and she said 74 moves.  I was all
like, "hand it over, jack" and she said she didn't have any available.

"Just how big are these Supa Seventy-Fo's?"

She indicated with her hands about 24 X 18 X 12 inches.

Nice.

"Just how much are they?"

She indicated with the calculator on the counter: 57,000

(yen, that is)

I didn't buy you one of those, either.

- G

(*) this is a message I wrote to Fred after visiting Nikko with Ma and Jon back in like September 2003.

Today

11:59pm JST Friday 19 May 2006 (day 13204)

Gotta bunch of crizap done on my computer and site today. Basically clearing pictures off my computer and making sure they're on my site and moving some to new locations that better fit where I think they should be.

I don't want to store images in /images/journal/... anymore, but would rather classify them as a type of image instead of just a date.

To this end, and in a big near-flub-up, after I named and uploaded a whole shload of pictures from when janette brought Fred and I was leaving NOVA and moving to Millenium House and all this stuff, I realized many of those pictures (from different parties) were already on my site (in the aforementioned /images/journal directory) so.... despite the possibility of getting 404s, I deleted those, pointed the journal entries to the new versions (that now have human-readable names instead of 0.jpg, etc) and wiped them all from my local computer. That took a pretty long time, but is definitely in line with getting shiznit sorted out on my site.