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Bill Gates dream

7:58am JST Monday 29 October 2007 (day 13732)

My alarm went off, and the music was different than usual, which was a reminder to myself that this was not just a daily wake-up alarm. I couldn't remember what it signified until I thought for a bit and realized this was the alarm reminding me to call Bill Gates about my difficulties in installing Vista on my Mac. He had been like, "call me at 9am on Monday," so I had set my alarm; it would be interesting to get "training" from "the man" himself.

Still a couple hours from the designated call-time, I talked to my mom a bit; I had woken up in the back room of her house. She told me the latest news about something, and then we were directed to go to the university assembly where some kind of big announcement was to be made. There were rumors as to what would be announced. I was determined not to miss my Bill Gates phone meeting, so I wasn't going to go. But I did walk over that direction to *look* like I was going, and told my friends why I wasn't attending. "Yeah, Vista sales must be really crap if they are so unbusy at M$ that I can just call him right up..." then turned back with my large red inner tube and piece of paper with the phone number on it to call Bill.

As I left, I could hear the student announcers announcing the announcement. One person mispronounced a word, and the next person read what was obviously unedited source material, including the TO: and Subject: of an email from when the announcement was being drafted. This confirmed in my mind that the assembly was worthless. On the way back to my room, I walked through some sloppy mud, which collapsed under me so I ended up in a little sink-hole of mud, thereby losing the inner tube and the slip of paper and my room keys. I waited a bit until the mud flowed away, found the inner tube, and paper. Headed back to where my room should be, and realized I didn't have my keys, nor actually know which room was mine. I tried to peer in the french windows to see my stuff, but wasn't successful.

Woke up for real after that.

Work blah

8:30pm JST Monday 29 October 2007 (day 13732)

Long day at work. One thing that stinks is that I often find myself waiting until 7pm to get some instruction. That's when 井上さん comes. And even then, he seems to never understand my Japanese, which is better than his apparently non-existant English.

The other thing that stinks: I'm getting paid less overall than I was teaching, and am working longer hours. Pbbbbt.

I'm also kinda grumpy because the amazing instruction I waited 1.5 hours to get was "gimme a list of all the files that need to be uploaded." yah, I think an email would have sufficed. but would have really liked to know I should have been keeping a list.