Entries this day: Kaoru Nihongo_resson Politeness Website

Kaoru

1:39pm JST Wednesday 4 October 2006 (day 13342)

Just finished the latest and greatest English lesson with Kaoru; she had originally asked to postpone the lesson until next week, but I asked if we could do it this week because I had been counting on the money to help me survive till payday. She re-negotiated her other appointment and met me today, and even paid me in advance for next time. So thoughtful!

Her friend Yoriko happened by during the lesson and we had a bit of a laugh as I introduced myself in intentionally archaic Japanese. After Yoriko left Kaoru told me about Yoriko's teacher who seems more focused on dating and pimping out other English teachers than teaching.

Nihongo resson

1:55pm JST Wednesday 4 October 2006 (day 13342)

Just saw a guy drive up to the curb and wait about 5 seconds before giving a little honkhonk to attract the attention of the woman he came to pick up.

His windows were up (he couldn't hear her), but the woman was like, [excuse me] and [I'm sorry], totally apologizing... to no one(?); she was not making eye contact with him as she said it, and I sure couldn't see anything like a phone (even headset type) that she may have been using. Totally mystifying..

Website

12:23am JST Friday 6 October 2006 (day 13344)

Yesterday I got an email from my webhost provider, dreamhost.com, indicting my storage space was being increased by an order of magnitude to 200 Gigs.

Word.

That's more storage than I have locally. I'm going to arrange a way to do backups of my local machine into all that storage space.

1:06am JST Friday 6 October 2006 (day 13344)

I am now uploading my entire local user directory to my website.