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Fun at Kazzah's

10:19am JST Saturday 20 May 2006 (day 13205)

I've really been enjoying time spent at Kazzah's; we have primarily been working on our various projects: me on my website and she on her Master's, and then we work together to buy food and cook and clean and chat about random and various things and it's just been great.

Sounds so normal slash obvious, I guess, but why it feels so great is a bit of a mystery.. in that.. yeah, a simple fun life should be great, but have I not experienced this in such a long time that I had forgotten how great it is?

For the record, I am happy to state we have been perfectly platonic, without even a hint of interest from either party. Even my crazy brain has been totally chill and disinterested in starting such shenanigans with anyone.

I seem to be growing through to different phases of my life.

Nice.

The list

11:31pm JST Friday 19 May 2006

Things to do

* = finished;

1. change website passwords

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

3. see what pictures have been uploaded

   1. * inline_journal_images

   2. * inline_journal_images/thumbs/

   3. kyoto_nara_kamakura (handle this one later)

   4. * not_sure_what_these_are

   5. * the_rest

   6. * thumbs

   7. * tjbike

   8. * tjbike.bak

4. * delete these from my local /journal/images directory

5. move pictures out of online /images/journal directories:

   1. 1998/

   2. 1998/flood

   3. 1998/rally

   4. 1998/tree

   5. 2001/07

   6. 2002/01

   7. 2002/02

   8. 2002/03

   9. 2002/05

   10. 2002/06

   11. 2002/07

   12. 2002/11

   13. 2002/12

   14. 2003/02

   15. 2003/03

   16. 2003/08

   17. 2003/09

   18. 2003/10

   19. 2003/11

   20. 2003/12

   21. * 2004/04

   22. * 2004/05

   23. * 2004/06

   24. * 2004/07

   25. * 2004/09

   26. 2004/10

6. create more albums in images/need_to_upload

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

8. 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)

9. Incorporating them into my journal entries from those occasions.

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

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

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

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

14. transcribe Japanese journal from PB 52:

15. write card to あかね

16. mail November card to Delphine

17. mail card to あかね

18. mail card to Genkiman Dan

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/

Website

9:05pm JST Saturday 20 May 2006 (day 13205)

Pretty much have spent all day on my website today, shlogging pictures from /images/journal/YYYY/MM directories to directories that describe the pictures' subject. The moves necessitate finding and changing the journal files that link to them, so it's a bit of a trick. However, thanks to emacs, I have been able to set up some macros that do the tedious work for me (because emacs rules).

I basically needed to set up five different macros, but until earlier today I only really knew how to work with one at a time (the "most recent" keyboard macro). I had saved some macros in the past, but it took a long time to figure out how to do it. This time that learning curve was quite short, and may even be locked into relatively longterm storage in my brain.

That's the good news. More good news is that I moved 5 month-directories worth of files into about 8 different category-directories.

The bad news: near the very end, I got a bit sloppy and deleted an image file. Fuck. I stopped at that point, checked google and archive.org for copies, but didn't find one. Ah well. It was a photo taken with a cellphone, so not of high resolution, and there are several other photos from that night (night of a typhoon super-flooding the river in Tsunashima), BUT it was the only photo of the driving school flooded.

Wrote to my website provider to see if they could recover it, but told them I wasn't willing to pay any money. If they can get it for free, then great. If not, then I'm lettin' it go.