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Earthquake

10:58am JST Thursday 7 September 2006 (day 13315)

We just had a cute little earthquake. I felt the vertical vibrations and was like, "that feels like an earthquake, dawg," (to myself) and it was a relatively long time before the horizontal shake. Like 3 seconds, I'm guessing. Usually it's only like 1 second. I'm going to make a big guess that it means the epicenter was far away - like lightning and thunder. Perhaps the verticals propogate more quickly than the horizontals.

Gateway data

CD/track             Wave II / Threshold 5: Energy Bar Tool
body position        on back with knees bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  23 C
clothing             underwear, sleeping bag
working nostril(s)   right
emotional state      fine
physical             still sleepy
head                 fine
stomach              not awake yet
pain/soreness        none
phone/door	     off/closed
time allowed	     hour
ambient light	     filtered daylight
ambient noise	     highway 246 through double pane window
date/time            9:38am JST Thursday  7 September 2006 (day 13315)
location	     Sakurashinmachi apartment

10:13am JST Thursday 7 September 2006 (day 13315)

I kept falling asleep during the exercise. To the point that I was able to awakefully make the energy bar flash on and off, I felt the idea of myself oscillating, but I couldn't focus on it very long at a time.

Work

9:22pm JST Thursday 7 September 2006 (day 13315)

Holy Shizah. Akiko just suggested a description of the current culture of Japanese women: basically 30 years ago women worked in the house and men worked in the office. Then (with economic crash), both had to work in the office, but the women still had to work at home because the men didn't start helping. Now, women who saw their moms working so hard are like, "fuck that" and won't do it.

And as a result the birthrate is declining.

10:09pm JST Thursday 7 September 2006 (day 13315)

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOO

I have just met someone who I've basically considered a god among humans: a JR Line computer programmer.

I absolutely *love* the Tokyo train system. She fuckin' *writes* it! Her job is to write programs that will coordinate the connectivity between JR Lines and other companies' train lines around Japan. That's amazing!!

I was all like, "I have *so* many questions to ask you," but I could hardly think of what the first one should be, so she was telling me about *her* job, and .. and.... I was like, "WOT??" I didn't know the different lines even connected! I thought they were all separate systems, so it adds a whole huge dimension to the huge spaghetti of lines that crisscross this city and country. Wow wow wow wow wow wow...

She told me it took TWENTY YEARS of planning and construction to finish the changes that "occurred" between 31 January 2003 and 1 February 2003 on the Tokyu Toyoko line, moving the line from 2 stories above Yokohama station to 4 stories below Yokohama station (and then to a whole slew of new stations instead of just 2 more that didn't get a lot of traffic). Twenty Years!!

I want to ask her about Nambu line and its history...

Guess what language the systems are written in. It starts with a C, and it's not C. hint: it (was) a Common Business Oriented Language. I was like, "WHAT??? COBOL is a terrible language!"

"Yes, but it's easy."

Although now they are changing over to C and C-sharp.