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Good stuff at work

2:58pm JST Thursday 13 December 2007 (day 13777)

Rocked in to work a bit early, and have completed the project on which I've been working for the last couple weeks. I'm using present perfect because I still need to get final approval from some people who aren't currently here. So for now I'm chillin'; I think I'll write an SoML.

State of My Life

3:01pm JST Thursday 13 December 2007 (day 13777)

Interesting. This template was created: 1:49pm JST Tuesday 21 November 2006 (day 13390)

State of My Life Address

1. I'm working for Aclass Interactive, doing website updates to bloggerstation.jp, about which there are some wonky things I can't control, but I'm pretty familiar with its intimate details.

2. I've just finished the first draft of some changes that will allow us to solicit feedback from bloggers about products that we send out. It took about 2 weeks to lay out all the changes and get the shit all coordinated. Most of the time I found it a nicely engaging project. A couple of tiems I was like, "oh shizah; I didn't think about that."

3. Doing this PHP work has actually done the incredible: switched me from being a Perl-prude to realizing that PHP does what it does really well. It's designed to augment HTML, so it's built into the HTML structure.

   I'm going to take a moment away from my SoML to explain why I didn't like PHP.

4. My general schedule includes meeting Yurika once every 2 weeks (I mention her first because I'll see her tonight), and seeing Ami about 4 nights per week. Work is from 10-7 with hour lunch, but the hours are semi flexible, especially toward longer hours.

5. I told Kim Sawyer about my current work hours and he said, "Careful. Giving away free time and talent (unless as charitable contribution) is considered "under-earning" by DA (Debtors Anonymous), a symptom of addiction around money."

6. Haven't really worked on chatforest in the past several weeks.

7. Oh, I'm writing a novel about Castle of Dreams; trying to get 50,000 words written this month, a la NaNoWriMo. Currently at 15881 words. I'm doing this in addition to the Castle wiki I put together at thunderrabbit.com/castle. I would really like to tell Nim and Deek so I can get their blessing.

8. Have been playing ultimate pretty regularly on Sundays. The weather is beginning to suck, so I'm less anxious to go out there, but have still been pretty dedicated.

9. Have been sinning like a sailor with regards to R.O.B.O.T. I haven't really meditated for like 2 weeks. Busy writing and busy not wanting to meditate.

10. Went to The Pink Cow to see Canadian Mike's paintings. Most of them sold on that first night they were up. I've been working on my paintings infrequently for several months. I need to get crazy busy on them, and perhaps start more and probably work with oils next. Not sure if oil and acrylic will go together in a way I like, but we can certainly try it.

11. I live in Sakura House in Motosumiyoshi. Room 203. Currently in the building (not counting Suzuki-san, in order of longevity: Karen (Brazilian girl who never talks to me), Juergen (German guy who I like), Natalia (Spanish girl who lost her NOVA housing in Osaka), and Fatima (French girl who replaced Max (who left about 2 weeks ago, and is currently on the Siberian (t)rail, headed home.)

12. My finances are coming around to positive. I should be out of CC debt in March, and then start paying back Ma and Fred for my shoulder breakage.

13. My computer is white MacBook, 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, with 1Gig of memory, and 41 of 74 Gigs used on HD.

14. Internet access is quite stable at work, but generally crap at home.

15. I-group is inadvertantly taking a break for the holidays.

16. I haven't really studied much Japanese lately. Motivation is sparse. Even tried sex as reward for motivation, but it didn't help.

17. websites currently semi in my brain: robnugen.com, thunderrabbit.com/castle, chatbotchats.com, chatforest.com

18. No pets, but for about an hour last week or so, I considered getting some gerbils. (this was when I realized "hamster" doesn't include a p.

19. If I lost my computer now, I would lose a fun weekend worth of pictures with CDF (near Atami on 1 December)

20. Haven't felt any cool earthquakes recently.

21. It's getting to be winter, and the weather is whiney rainy today.

22. I've applied for my visa extension, but it hasn't come through yet. Not sure how long to wait, etc.. but it expires on 22 December. I don't know if I get an extension by having the "Application" stamp in my passport.

Work

6:50pm JST Thursday 13 December 2007 (day 13777)

Got the thing basically done today, but then 中谷さん went to lunch and then to a meeting and we didn't show it off to 今井さん nor anyone. But that's okay; I wrote in my journal and wiki and novel and took a brief nap, and found a nest of love hotels about 2 minutes walk from my office.

Yurika lesson

6:52pm JST Thursday 13 December 2007 (day 13777)

At the coffee shop to meet Yurika for our semi-weekly lesson, although I will be on a plane headed to Kagoshima instead of here in two weeks.