Entries this day: Am_I_supposed_to_cook Close_call Work i-group_+_Steve_in_Narita

Am I supposed to cook

10:18am JST Monday 22 October 2007 (day 13725)

I wanted to make this title a pun-cross between Ami's supposed to cook and Am I supposed to cook? But there's an extra s in the way.

This morning, I realized that though there's lots of food available in my fridge, it's all in need of cooking before consuming. Hmmm. I don't really know how (long) to cook a slab of fish. I'm not really sure I want to clean all the resulting dishes from cooking ground beef. I'm not sure that I want to eat ground beef.

So I went to the store to get some soy milk and had granola cereal.

At the store, the soy milk is 84 yen (they only have little bite sized drinks, not like a carton), so I gave the guy two coins: 100 yen and 5 yen.

He gave back the 5 yen and then gave me 16 yen change, which included three coins: 10, 5, and 1. I put my 5 yen back into his hand and pointed to both, saying, "give me one," (in English) and then "moron" (also in English) as he traded the two coins for one.

I guess I should be nicer than that, but dang, wasn't my intention pretty obvious?

Close call

12:09pm JST Monday 22 October 2007 (day 13725)

Kevin sent an email asking if someone would meet him to go to our new I-group location tonight. I was like, "yah, no worries" and then David replied, "And Rob you were at the last meeting. I remember we all agreed to go to Narita to meet Steve." And I read it as "Rob, where were you at the last meeting?"

And my heart dropped. Oh fuck; I missed seeing my closest friends in Tokyo.

I wrote a long email (that I wish I had kept) basically saying I felt sad and shame because I missed the meeting, and the reason was I have given my memory over to Ami, just assuming she will remember for me the things I need to do. I put my magician to work on my shame and brought it to sadness. I just feel sad.

Then I read a bit more carefully and realized my mistaken reading of David's reply, quickly deleted and recomposed *my* reply, and realized I should capture this little moment.

I judge I'm still out of integrity with the group because I gave incorrect information to Kevin and would have done the aforementioned fuckup had Kevin not written to the group and precipitated this little conversation.

Work

3:33pm JST Monday 22 October 2007 (day 13725)

My understanding of an email from 井上さん is that he'll be adding a field to a table and that I don't really have to worry about it. So today work has been a big reading day for me. I read about Frank Abagnale, the bank-fraud expert, have read a bunch of Dinosaur Comics, and that's pretty much about it, unless I'm forgetting something else I've read.

My stomach feels like it's on the edge of throwing up slash just need to sleep slash not sure what. Sorta ooky feeling today.

It might actually be a result of the Contact caplets I took yesterday and this morning. Are they making me worse or better or somewhere in between?

3:40pm JST

I just took two more in the hopes that they're making me better.

4:46pm JST

Ah. Nice. Right after posting this, I decided it might be good to do a bit of work, and, only slightly sidetracked by various internet thingies, I noted that the sub-sub query was using the wrong row to grab data. I made the change and now...

The query works.

Hmmm.

5:54pm JST

I've basically decided to buy SubEthaEdit by CodingMonkeys. It's not freeware, but I've really enjoyed its colorization of PHP-HTML code and ease of use with CyberDuck. Payday is on the 25th; I should be able to buy the license soon thereafter.

But right now, I gots to head out to Shinjuku.

i group + Steve in Narita

11:15pm JST Monday 22 October 2007 (day 13725)

Leaving Narita area now; we just met Steve Kushner during his layover from Australia / New Zealand back to Canada. Takeshi drove David and I to meet Steve at the Narita Hilton. We didn't do a whole lot of work, but I definitely got a few good tidbits of information.

We're planning to do another training type thing January 11-14. Actually two: a weekend thing and then something on the holiday. Takeshi did basically all the logistics and planning for the one we did a month ago, and said he didn't want to do much this time. I told him I could help, along with Ami and two of Takeshi's contacts from the university.

Synchronistically, Ami called just as I was hugging Steve goodbye, like my chest started to vibrate as we were hugging (my cellphone is in my shirt pocket). I was like, "Ami!" and answered, and Takeshi quickly took the opportunity and the phone from me to brief her on the deets of what we're planning. That worked out nicely. While he spoke with Ami, I joked with Steve that Takeshi was already taking the leadership role for planning. Steve was like, "just do what I do: write in bad Japanese something to the group and he'll take over; I do it in France and Germany all the time, except in French and German instead of Japanese."

Hmmmm.