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DO today

4:21pm JST Friday 27 October 2006 (day 13365)

1. begin sketching a budget

2. write something in Japanese

3. * Write to Eri

4. * call post office to have them resend Hitomi's package

Dream

8:17am JST Friday 27 October 2006 (day 13365)

Fred and I riding with my dad driving his truck on a highway, my dad passed some three cars in a row, and oncoming traffic was oncoming to the point that I was like, "eek, better put on my seatbelt," which I did and he passed some more cars and was going faster and faster toward the concoming traffic that eventually we ended up on the wrong side (left side) of the first oncoming car which had to serve out of our way to avoid head on collision. I was like, "dad! [what are you thining?]" but he continued to drive super fast and traffic was getting more and more crowded and well-past the point that *I* would ever drive so fast. We were now headed with basically two lanes of traffic going both directions on a road wtih only three lanes, but we were on the third lane to the left, definitely super dangerous, but we were still alive, thankfully. Then suddenly some other traffic had a problem, and a drive shaft dropped out of the bottom of a car that had also been driving uber-quickly. Dad swerved to avoid it but then had to react to something else and then something else and then it was apparent everyone had to stop and the pickup truck in front of us was slamming his brakes and we were slow motionly coming far too close and just about to crash, but I could see on the left of the pickup we had a little extra room, so I was like, "left," and my dad swerved to the left of the pickup, and had ample space to barely stop in time.

I did a little relieved song and dance, "oh yeah; I saved the day; I saved the day; oh yeah!" and my dad agreed with a "good job," and then "ah, wait," as we came to the source of the brake slammage: a 30 meter sheer drop in the road, after an earthquake had made the section of highway collapse. It was not actually perpendicular to the ground, but about 80 degrees inclined (6 degrees is the most I've seen otherwise), but dad was like in go-for-it mode, and gunned the engine and we launched off the edge and gently slowly perfectly floated down to the roadway 30 meters below. "Wow; that wasn't so bad at all!"

and I woke up

Lunch Jesse

4:07pm JST Friday 27 October 2006 (day 13365)

Was supposed to meet Jesse at noon, but he couldn't come; went to lunch at El Torito and then met Jesse outside Tower Records, doing a silly ignore-game, walking back and forth past each other into and out of phone booths until I "found" him stuck in one. Boy, are we funny boys.

Super surprised when he gave me a Hawaiian T-shirt and chocolate! Woot!

Work

4:09pm JST Friday 27 October 2006 (day 13365)