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State of my Life Address

1:42pm JST Wednesday 9 August 2006

State of My Life Address

1. I live in Setagaya in Jesse's old room. He has moved out and I'm living with Michael. Rent is 80,000 yen per month plus 7,000 yen utilities. That's almost twice what I was paying at Millenium House, but it's too much of a pain to move, plus all my old peeps are probably gone, plus it's a big mess (rumor has it)

2. I am on tourist visa which expires 27 September. Need to get a work visa sponsored soon or I'm going to have to bust outta here. I would like to stay and not go further into debt buying plane tickets, but with the rent situation as it is, escaping is a consideration.

3. My computer is a new MacBook, white with Tiger 10.4 and 80Gig HD and 1Gig RAM and other stuff. I've used the embedded camera to take funny pictures and video chat with Colleen.

4. Purchased Marble Blast from Garage Games and worked on some of my old levels, thanks to Fred extracting them from some CDs I sent him back in the day.

   Also recovered my TMG files and have sent them to Wholly Genes to be upgraded to the latest versions. Wholly Genes does not have a Mac version of their software, so it may be a while before I get back into that.

5. Got Hitomi hooked up with pekoneko.com, which is hosted on dreamhost.com, along with robnugen.com and thunderrabbit.com. I bought thunderrabbit.com to get started on Dream Host, and set up rob.thunderrabbit.com to test the new location for robnugen.com before moving it over.

6. Got emacs from somewhere, and it's a pretty cool version that handles international characters like 漢字 better, and has a pretty cool feature when searching for files: if I put // or ~, it knows all the stuff preceeding that is useless, so it gets grayed out.

   The source is editable in this version, so I made the changes to sgml-mode.el that I had done in Mie-ken while on TJ Bike adventure. Hadn't fixed C-cL to do <li><p></p></li> until just now.

7. Have three browsers on my machine: Firefox, Flock, and Camino. I haven't really used Camino at all. I use Firefox primarily, unless I want to add something to my blog and Flock handles that pretty nicely. Not sure why I won't just change over to Flock 100%, but I keep seeming not to.

8. Have just gotten reconnected with Kim Sawyer as of last night. We didn't have a full coaching session, but plan to do so next week now that we seem to have kinks worked out.

   My homework is to write a check in by this weekend. I noted that he said part of the process is to grieve lost friendships and even old ideas that no longer fit.

9. I would like to get connected with MKP men in Japan; I want to have trainings hosted in Japan.

   I have gotten some names of men, but also have plenty of ways to procrastinate and not face this. The first step is trivially easy: just write to them and say HI.

3:22pm JST Wednesday 9 August 2006

10. Did it. Almost got completely sidetracked (as I thought I might).

11. Kim Sawyer has just sent me results of my Birkman evaluation thing I took some years ago. I read the summaries and they still seem pretty spot-on.

12. Have been working on google maps type stuff, and I think I will start that again right about now. Almost.

13. No girlfriend, no pets, no car.

14. Yes Francois, and have just last night put together a slideshow featuring like 100 pics of Francois, mostly during PB adventures. Once I regain edit ability, I may add some from Bali, and TJ Bike.

15. TJ Bike is still at Nachiko's house in Odawara. I am basically 100% shoulderrific (funny how I'd forgotten that news altogether), and plan to get TJ Bike soon.

16. One consideration is finding time; my work (EV) calls me on a day-to-day basis: "can you work tomorrow???" Yes.

    So I basically just need to decide to go. I plan to go in the evening, spend the night at Nachiko's then ride TJ Bike back and complete the journey (minus a few km from Hakone to Odawara).

17. I currently have two private students, 3000 yen per hour each:

    Kaoru, whose English is really fantastic; she's working on fine tuning her prepositions, articles, and subtle differences between similar words. She lives near my house, so that's really convenient.

    And Sayuri, whose English is pretty good; we meet in Shibuya, and for the past two weeks have come to McDonald's (where I'm actually writing this now). Tonight (her birthday), we will go somewhere else. (not because of her birthday, but)

18. I haven't really gotten back into studying Japanese. Called Ayana once, asked her if she was interested, she said she would call me back later that day, but she never did. I called her three times after that, during a seven day period. No answer. I will call her one more time and then delete her number if no answer.

19. Speaking of doing that, I had gone out twice with Yuka, the bilingual woman who helped me in the Hakone clinic and who bought me a burger and train ticket back to Tokyo after my crash. The first time was fun, and the second time was more like a date, almost, even with a hug at the end. I called her three times over a two or three week period after that, but never got a response. Deleted her number.

20. I have recently joined 43things.com, writely.com, youos.com, and others... but none have really really grabbed my attention for long.

21. Just today became interested in an online RPG. But only a free one. And only a cute one. No rampant killing. Found mudcraft.com and secondlife.com. Downloaded mudcraft, but haven't gotten past the registration screen for second life. They severely limit the possible names we can use in the game.

    Best acceptable name I've come up with so far is But Howe