Entries this day: Leaving_now Library Lunch State_of_My_Life_Address sleepin'_under_bridge

Leaving now

12:42pm JST Friday 26 May 2006 (day 13211)

Aight. Just gotta put my computer into my backpack and head out from Kazzah's in Nagoya.

Thank you, Kazzah!!!

Library

2:41pm JST Friday 26 May 2006 (day 13211)

I left Kazzah's today at 1:07pm and am now at the library where I tried to use internet last time I was here like a week & 1/2 ago, the day I called Kazzah all, "I'm 3km from your house!" and by "her house" I mean her old house. D'oh! That day the library was closed so I didn't go & today the building is open but turns out not to be a library, so the woman at info desk directed me to the real library, which is closed.

So closed that the elevator doesn't go to that floor, and there's a sign outside and a sticker inside the elevator explaining why.

The building is good for one thing at least: restrooms.

Lunch

3:49pm JST Friday 26 May 2006 (day 13211)

Due to rain, I'm at McDonald's built into the corner of a shopping mall and got a Big Mac for 280 yen (30 yen more expensive than at the other locations I've been to this trip).

4:15pm

For the past 20 minutes I've been falling asleep at this table here in McD's.

State of My Life Address

8:33am JST Friday 26 May 2006 (day 13211)

State of My Life Address

1. I am in Nagoya at Kazzah's house (Kazzah from PB 52; we were GET Street roommates in GET 8), and have stayed here for over a week enjoying her good cooking and fast internet at her work.

2. I shall be leaving today, though it looks like rain may fall.

3. We recognized that the party is over; Kazzah needs her space; I need to get rockin' back to Tokyo to say bye or get settled before my encroaching deadline.

4. I must escape Japan within 33 days. My tourist visa runs out at that point. I've got limited funding: 4823 yen. I stopped saving receipts, so this will be a fresh starting point if I choose to keep them for the final leg of the journey.

5. For the past week, I have been working on getting images off my local computer and on to robnugen.com, with a big well-needed sidetrack of getting images out of /images/journal/YYYY/MM directories and into /images/CAT/A/GORY appropriate categories. Plus evaluating different album viewing utilities.

   For the record, emAlbum was high on the list. Coppermine is higher on the list, but it's a bit too powerful (*) for what I want. I'm going to evaluate Curator, which is apparently quite clean and simple and written in Python. I am still considering writing my own, and I basically decided to write it in Python, so if Curator doesn't work for me, I can adapt it or use it as a base for my own.

   * though it's "too powerful," I really like the idea of people being able to send ecards of images from my site.

6. I have started emailing with Hitomi a bit. I'd like to start a new friendship with her instead of all the chaos of the past. But just gotta start slowly.

7. My HD has 3.43 gigs free. Slowly increasing the available space by getting stuff uploaded to my site.

8. Right now, I don't know where I will be in one month. I can imagine three likely possibilities:

   1. 39% I will be in Korea, close to getting a job next to Dru Daddy G

   2. 39% I will be in Tokyo, close to getting a job via Sumidasan

   3. 14% I will be headed home to Texas (Austin)

   4. 4% I will have escaped Japan for a longer TJ Bike adventure

   That last one I added on, but I think it's a pretty remote possibility.

   Then I took off a percentage point from each to give my angels a chance to show me a whole new world.

9. Next planned stop, Odawara.

- - - -

Aight, back to work. (as my brother would say)

In this case,

1. * cook

2. * wash

   * dishes

   * me

3. * pack

4. * load

5. * write (*)

(*) a note to Kazzah. She does know I'm leaving, but just a thank you would be nice.

sleepin' under bridge

7:30pm JST Friday 26 May 2006 (day 13211)

Looks like I have stopped for the night. 30km traveled today. I'm under highway 1 in a cool bridge tunnel with a grate-covered sleuce (sp) with ample water running through it. I took the opportunity to pee under a bridge like a bum, but without concern that it would stink later. Through the grate and whooshed away with the current. What a great grate!

I ate some of the veggies, cheese, eggs + sausage that I left raw, grated, & cooked this morning, respectively. (( As I cooked, I could tell Kazzah had, as planned, bought organic veggies.: A little baby slug was in the base of the stalks. I didn't take a photo (though it was cute) but tossed the stalk end + slug out into nature (from the 7th floor; I assume it landed safely.)))

I am near ふじかわ station and totally called the next two trains after R -> L slow then L -> R fast. (R -> L fast and L -> R slow at the same time)