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Blythe

4:42pm JST Saturday 14 April 2007 (day 13534)

Sweet. Going to Cyril with Blythe on the 24th. Woot!

Prefectures

4:43pm JST Saturday 14 April 2007 (day 13534)

It appears, at least in short term memory, I've got all the prefectures memorized:

1. あいち

2. あおもり

3. あきた

4. いしかわ

5. いばらき

6. いわて

7. えひめ

8. おおいた

9. おおさか

10. おかやま

11. おきなわ

12. かがわ

13. かごしま

14. かながわ

15. きょうと

16. ぎふ

17. くまもと

18. ぐんま

19. こうち

20. さいたま

21. さが

22. しが

23. しまね

24. ちば

25. とうきょう

26. とくしま

27. とちぎ

28. とっとり

29. とやま

30. ながさき

31. ながの

32. なら

33. にがた

34. ひろしま

35. ひょうご

36. ほっかいど

37. みえ

38. みやぎ

39. みやざき

40. やまがた

41. やまぐち

42. やまなし

43. わかやま

4:49pm JST

Crap! What happened? I forgot four...

Ah. I forgot the ふくs and しずおか

1. ふくい

2. ふくしま

3. ふくおか

4. しずおか

4:53pm JST

Okay: try again:

1. あいち

2. あおもり

3. あきた

4. いしかわ

5. いばらき

6. いわて

7. えひめ

8. おおいた

9. おおさか

10. おかやま

11. おきなわ

12. かがわ

13. かごしま

14. かながわ

15. きょうと

16. ぎふ

17. くまもと

18. ぐんま

19. こうち

20. さいたま

21. さが

22. しが

23. しずおか

24. しまね

25. ちば

26. とうきょう

27. とくしま

28. とちぎ

29. とっとり

30. とやま

31. ながさき

32. ながの

33. なら

34. にいがた

35. ひょうご

36. ふくい

37. ふくしま

38. ふくおか

39. ほっかいど

40. みえ

41. みやぎ

42. みやざき

43. やまがた

44. やまぐち

45. やまなし

46. わかやま

4:59pm JST

Eek. I think I forgot some.

I forgot one. but student now...

Work Miki

5:47pm JST Saturday 14 April 2007 (day 13534)

Heh. Miki was fun. A completely new Miki. This one as tall as me, and nearly a challenge in arm wrestling. Semi loud and entertainingly obnoxious.. must have lots of energy and love cause she's a kindergarten teacher for two classes: 35 and 60 kids at a time.

Work last

6:20pm JST Saturday 14 April 2007 (day 13534)

Last student at work is a Japanese Self Defense Force soldier. I challenged him to arm wrestle and he beat me pretty effectively. He was solid.

He was a weather forecaster for 4 months (April - August 2005) in Kuwait, featuring humidity of 5%, high temps, which are easy to predict, of 50 C (122 F) and sand storms, which are hard to predict.

pat's PB Party

6:38pm JST Saturday 14 April 2007 (day 13534)

Headed to a party for Pat's friends and students of 49th and 55th voyages.

(55th? Maybe 56th; I've forgotten)

2:00am JST

I was just about in bed, but I decided I have to write this.

At the party, I was a bit surprised to see Hitomi. I hugged Natalie first for a bit of emotional support, and then went over and hugged Hitomi and talked to her a bit. It's the first time we've communicated in months, much less actually seen each other. She seemed fine and it was all good. I was glad to have a normal conversation with her.

Great to hug and chew on Natalie. She danced salsa with Ippei, with whom she apparently hadn't danced since PB 49th voyage (ended in summer 2005). We determined that we need to hang out again soon. As if we will make the time.

Greatly enjoyed meeting Sanpo. "who???" "いっぽ、にほ、さんぽ" Her wonderful smile reminded me of home or something otherwise なつかしい. I asked her to be my salsa partner for the small salsa class Natalie led after her performance with いっぺい. I just loved Sanpo's smile. I could easily melt into it.

I confirmed that Sanpo was going to the after party, and then wandered around a bit and talked to Ippei and then Natalie a bit. Ippei has a cool job of installing silicon chip manufacturing machines. Wow. Definitely a sexy job.

Pictures with everyone from the 49th featured Francois of course. I didn't get my camera out, though, so I'll need to wait for copies to be emailed.

At the after party, I sat next to Sanpo, but mostly talked to Pat. He told me that Kazzah may be doing GU on the 58th (?) (congrats!) which will be her third voyage, if she does it. Also got a copy of 49th voyage CD from Pat. Actually a DVD; I wonder if/when I'll get time to post it. I think for now I'll just throw it onto Amazon S3. (next week when we get internet access here again)

Sanpo took the Tokyu Toyoko line home, so I went with her to Shibuya. Gave her a hug at the entrance to my old line. Didn't exchange explicit contact deets with her, but I had given her http://moonhares.robnugen.com to find the vid featuring Francois. I think the link works. I can't check it right now, and will probably forget to check later.

What a great smile. :-)

2:12am JST

Okay, so there it is, in less that 15 mins. Good night.

super magic

12:22am JST Sunday 15 April 2007 (day 13535)

Went to McD's after saying bye to Sanpo, just to check email and see if I got a response from Blythe. (yes.) Nearby a guy was doing some card magic tricks, with a crowd of 5 around him, two of whom were squealing with shock at the tricks. I headed over to see what was up.

Basically, the coolest trick was variants of sorting the deck between red and black. They'd all be shuffled, and then he'd go through the deck pulling out 4 aces or so, and then put the deck down and do a trick with the aces. Then he'd go back to the deck and be like, "remember what I said about the black cards being heavier than the red cards?"

"yah"

"Well, all we have to do to sort the cards is *wait*, and they'll be sorted."

Sure enough: all the red cards on top and all the black cards on the bottom.

What??????