Entries this day: Fred Mari_and_Chika Royal_Host_with_Shinpei Zzz

Fred

9:21am JST Saturday 6 January 2007 (day 13436)

Chatted with Fred this morning about the latest game. He gave me a pretty cool idea; I'm gonna try something to see if I can do it.

9:39am JST

Hmmmm.. no clear answer. Flash has startDrag and stopDrag functions, and dragged objects have a _droptarget property, but for some reason these things are not working the way I expect they might.

Mari and Chika

2:51pm JST Saturday 6 January 2007 (day 13436)

Mari and Chika are a riot of silliness. When I first met them, I let it go, but on the second time I met them, I "barked at them for having no idea what they are doing," according to their lesson record. They kept coming back to my lessons, and just recently they have each bought a copy of the book! I am pretty impressed; they are definitely getting better.

Royal Host with Shinpei

6:21pm JST Saturday 6 January 2007 (day 13436)

I'm in Shibuya at Royal Host, basically 30 minutes early for my 7pm language exchange with Shinpei. We didn't meet last Saturday cause he went surfing in Bali. Perhaps I will go surfing with him sometime when the weather gets a bit warmer. I don't know that Japan has particularly nice waves anywwhere, but they can't be weak everywhere (?).. I've never surfed, so maybe small waves would be easier to start.

I discovered an interesting thing here at Royal Host, a place I enjoy slurping down drink after drink (mostly hot cocoa and orange juice (two great drinks that should never be mixed)).

The cocoa machine has two settings: hot cocoa, and ice cocoa. The primary difference is the not the temperature, but the volume of drink. Ice cocoa dispenses much less than hot cocoa.

However, the volume difference seems to only be in the amount of water mixed with a constant amount of cocoa. It's super super super super chocolately sweet!! Like, "woah!" super squishy sweet, an all syrup squishy..

Shinpei says, "I think that is like poison. I can't believe you drink it."

Yes. poison. But oh so sweet.

Zzz

12:08am JST Sunday 7 January 2007 (day 13437)

I'm tired.

I was gonna do some more work in Flash tonight, but I'm just too tired. Ug.