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Belief meets Reality

1:29pm JST Friday 16 February 2007 (day 13477)

I have had my journal online since before blog was a word. I have had my journal before online was a word. Or before "online" meant surfing the net.

At times I have claimed that I don't care how many people read my shtuff online, but the reality includes my server sending me an email featuring the log of the each hit from the previous day: timestamp, which date of my journal was read, and, if the person has entered them in the comment form, the name and email address.

Some months ago I got a message from an email address that I'll call Panda. Panda sent me a message asking if I had seen a particular japanese study website.

I checked the IP address to try to verify the identity, and it was the same IP address as Hitomi had been using before.

Aha. So I basically ignored the message, as I'm wont to do with messages sent via comment via unverified senders.

Today I received the log of hits on my source_viewer. This is an interesting one because I like to imagine people care slash can use the source code of my stuff. And because people often try to view the source of ../../../../, |etc|, etc.

This was Panda viewing remove.pl

remove.pl is the code that removes people from my Rob Updates email list. Woah. I thought Hitomi was already off that list.

So I checked the Rob Update list, and here's where Belief crashes with Reality:

Aiko has removed her name.

Aiko is Panda???

Woah.

I haven't talked to Aiko in a while, but last time we chatted briefly about wanting to chat at length because we hadn't talked in a while. Hmmm.

Funny conversation

3:47pm JST Friday 16 February 2007 (day 13477)

Funny lesson with a girl started like this:

"What do you do in your free time?"

"part time job"

"Where do you work?"

"waiter"

"What is the restaurant name?"

"Japanese food"

"Do you like Japanese food?"

"yes"

It all turned out basically okay; she's going to make clothes for Francois for 1000 yen. She reminds me of Meg Robinson, actually.

In the lesson record I wrote

funny girl in a non-joking way:  silver shoes, sparkly scarf, army jacket, blonde tail & 
a dog tag.  1000 yen if she makes new clothes for Francois.

- - - -

She'll be back on Monday.

The Spiral

Subject: cost equivalent to 2 hours of work per year: The Spiral Membership  
To: Fred
	
From: the spiral
Date: 15 Feb 2007 15:23:23 -0800
Subject: The Spiral Membership

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Work

3:58pm JST Friday 16 February 2007 (day 13477)

Starting at 4pm, 6 hours of lessons with no break scheduled. Here's hopin' for a no-show or cancellation.

10:52pm JST Friday 16 February 2007 (day 13477)

No breaks, but I made it. Somehow.

flashtastic

11:23pm JST Friday 16 February 2007 (day 13477)

Wow.

Well, that was hella easier than I thought it might be. Contrary to my own prevailing belief, it was easy-squeezy to copy-n-paste frames and objects between to .fla movies. I thought it would be a nightmare of library disconnects and all sorts of crap. But magically all the needed items are referenced properly.

Fair enough. I hope it doesn't bite me later.

I was able to do it all and do some preliminary testing while on the train headed away from home at first and now almost home.

mike is back home

1:27am JST Saturday 17 February 2007 (day 13478)