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My nest

12:56pm JST Monday 31 December 2007 (day 13795)

Ami asked if I would be willing to cln my room to start ehe new year, and I was ereluctantly willing. As the cleaning progressed (far too quickly for my happiness), I realized what might be happening> Basically I know whre ll my stuff is. Its like an animal living in a little comfortably messy nest. I could make it a clean nest, given enough time and space to put everything,, but I don't really have the sapce .. basically need shlves for something baskets for clothes etc

I focused on my one (1) laundry net-bag thing that Wende and I got back like 6+ years ago. I used to have three bags: a white one,a yellow one and a gray one, and I had specifically chosen those colors to represent whites, something else and something else. There was a frame to hold them up. Fuck we had a whole house with three stories that was twice as big as the house Mark and Yoko live in now (which seems big by Japanese standards).. I gave it all up to travel adlearn about the world and just started to cry cry cry as I was telling Ami. So sad just to not know where I had released the bags along the way, and not even remembering doing it. I bet it was at janette's house, but I don't remember seeing them in the stuff . oh I never saw that stuff when I was back in the US this summer.

Anyway, anyway. anyway.

Ami slightly interrupted my flow (of tears), though she gave me a good deal of time and didn't interrupt until I started speaking and explaining what was going on in ny my little head. I had gone off on a tangent of trying to caref or the earth by not getting a lot of shit that I don't need and wanting, for example to return pachinko balls to the panchiko parlors, with the imagination that I could make my conservation pay off by depositing a lucky ball into the slot and cashing out.. but I'll never go to a pachinko place while they are so disgustingly filled with smoke. Ack.

So I sidetracked myself and talked about things to do to take care of the earth and how ineffectual my efforts seemed, and Ami was like getting me to list things that I can do as a person: not usingplastic bags when buying a single item, reusing bags, turing off lights, airconditioner, eating vegetarian, and we went off on a tangent on how that helps the earth and she didn't quite buy it or thought Japan was innocent in this rainforest destruction for beef consumption game. I don't know that it it's innocent, but I doubt it could be. Japan usese a bajillion wooden choptickas and plsatic bags every day; I doubt they suddenly care about rainforst beef.

Blah anyway I just wanted to capture my tears on the last day of the year.

I typed this entry without watching the screen; haven't yet checked for errors.

ami's nest

8:37pm JST Monday 31 December 2007 (day 13795)

Ami's parentals are on Kyushu (different island) for the transition to 2008, so Ami invited me to her house where she would have an oven with which she could cook lasagna!!!!

The lasagna was great great great and featured pumpkin and れんこん, the name of which I forgot in English. It's the white tube vegetable that slices into wagon wheels. Lotus root, according to Jim Breen.

While she cooked, I worked on getting freakauth installed on my codeigniter installation.. If I don't get it finished pretty soon, I may give up on it. Actually I *think* I'm just one step away: get the captcha to work.

hot shower

12:47am JST Tuesday 1 January 2008 (day 13796)

Kicked off the New Year with frozen ice cream and a hot shower. Pounding water on my back and the same verb for Ami. Nice to be able to be a bit loud, what with all the other festivities going on around the city.

The ice cream was great. White chocolate center with vanilla ice cream around it and then white chocolate shell with little light crunchies on the outside. So so so yummy!

zzz watched Evan Almighty

2:41am JST Tuesday 1 January 2008 (day 13796)

Haha; we just watched Evan Almighty. I'm glad we chose a comedy with a bit of a moral instead of some dumb killing movie like SAW or Bio Hazard or some of the other blood and gore movies on the prime movie rack.

I didn't guess how they would do it, but I am glad the flood came.

zzzzzzzz got freakauth working

3:48am JST Tuesday 1 January 2008 (day 13796)

cool. I got freakauth working. Now perhaps I will use it to run the logins for my new site(s).

I'm glad to report that the main problem was me not having followed all the instructions.