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AM promoting Zeitgeist

2:13pm JST Friday 4 January 2008 (day 13799)

Today I finalized the promotional deets for showing Zeitgeist at the Pink Cow:

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March 15th is Z-Day!

The Pink Cow is opening early on March 15 to host a Zeitgeist movie
screening (4:30-6:30pm).  From the Zeitgeist website (http://zeitgeistmovie.com):

Zeitgeist is a movie to inspire people to start looking at the world
from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often
things are not what the population at large think they are.  Who was
behind 9/11?  Who started Christianity?  Who controls the world
currencies?

The movie will certainly spark many mini Zeitgeist discussions during
the amazing Pink Cow Buffet dinner for 2,650pp (7-10pm).    Make a
reservation for dinner at cowmail[X]thepinkcow.com to get a guaranteed
table and a guaranteed DVD of the movie!

Free Zeitgeist Movie DVDs for everyone who makes a reservation.

Can't come that early?  Watch the movie now at
http://zeitgeistmovie.com and join the Pink Cow Buffet to feed your
face and share your intellect for only 2,650pp.  It's all happening
March 15th!

For the night owls, a second Zeitgeist Movie screening after dinner
can spark discussion during the spinology of DJ Cool Cucumber from
midnight to late.

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DJ Cool Cucumber is a placeholder for whoever she finds to DJ (or perhaps there won't be a DJ).

Walk with Ami

1:13am JST Saturday 5 January 2008 (day 13800)

Ami slept until fully 4pm or so today. I was a bit suprised, and began to guess that she was a bit depressed or some such. Any time she seemed to stir, I directed some outward attention her way, "good morning" in Japanese or settling down on the covers next to her or on her.

She didn't really respond, and I kept careful notice of my emotions; part of me wanted her to be 元気 happy and thought about getting mad/sad/defensive when she wasn't. I released this need to react and just pet her like a big sleeping bear.

After she became a bit more conscious, I asked if she wanted to eat or talk or be left alone or what. No to all of the above, and eventually I asked if she wanted to go for a walk. I certainly wanted to escape this room, and do so before it got dark.

She perked up at this idea, so we headed out within a few minutes.

Hand in hand toward the bridge leading over the tracks to her house, but directly to the fence next to the tracks and not over the bridge. Turned right and then right again and then left and over the mini river. (She wasn't willing to climb down into it, perceiving it as dirty even though it's paved and dry. I see it like most young boys might, a place we are obligated to walk on occasion.) We found a parking "garage" after a bit and *did* go to the upper level (only 2 levels) and walked around a bit. She made a game of walking only on the braces holding up the second level, which I certainly appreciated and supported as soon as I noticed.

On the way down the ramp of the parking structure, she asked if I was getting hungry. Definitely. We found the next main road that was big enough to cross the tracks, and we crossed the tracks, whereupon I noted with happy anticipation a かいてんずし restaurant. Awesome. (*)

While we waited for our turn to chow sushi, the answer came. She asked politely if she could make a request, then took about a minute to formulate her request: when we are together, pay more attention to Ami than to my computer.

"Easier done than said, Frog!"

We ate and headed back to my crib by way of the conveni next to 平間 station to get snacks (ice cream for me, and in a rare display, ice cream for her as well), and then chowed and enjoyed an after dinner romp and nap.

sushi restaurant near my house

2:09am JST Saturday 5 January 2008 (day 13800)

(*) I love the food just passing by in front of us for the taking, though at this particular restaurant, it passes by along the side of each booth, using the otherwise unusable space of that magic partition between booths which allows us to sit within inches of the other customers and completely ignore them.

The booths are arranged as in the picture. I noticed the same plates coming by every so often, so I decided to figure out how long it should take them to get around, based on just counting the number of seconds they took to go by our booth. I counted that time at 15 seconds. So, with 48 booths, it should take 12 minutes to go past all the booths, and I estimated 2 more minutes to go past all the sushi chefs, and added 1 more minute to go around all the corners. Grand total of 15 minutes.

But, I had a feeling that I was seeing the plates more often than that. Timed it and found the plates came around in approximately 8 minutes. WTF? How could I be off by a factor of 50%???

I checked my math again, checked my timing again, and everything seemed correct. Except for just one thing. My answer was plainly wrong.

I hypothosized, then theorized, then confirmed my theory (as we can just barely see through the glass to the chefs' area. There are actually two (2) conveyor belts that don't intersect, but come very close to touching just in the middle of the chefs' area. Perfect. My calculations and math were vindicated.

zzzzz

2:14am JST Saturday 5 January 2008 (day 13800)

Just finished writing the past couple of entries before dropping off to bed. Gotta be up earlyish tomorrow; I'm attending two days of meditation workshops on opening the 3rd eye. Should be interesting.