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State of My Life Address

11:26am JST Saturday 5 April 2008 (day 13891)

And now, it's time for a

State of My Life Address

by Rob Nugen.

1. Just this morning I have been fartin' around on FriendsForSale on Facebook. It's fun when cash is rolling in, but boring when all the cash is tied up in investments.

2. Outside, the sky is overcast, with inconsistent wisps of breeze bringing chilly air. My window is open, but perhaps overly optimistically so.

3. Yesterday Jason Collin put his old Mac up for sale, which is basically a nicer version of my old Mac, and arguably equal or better than my current mac in everything except CPU speed, so I'm gonna buy it after next payday (25 April).

4. I've been doing my reiki meditation things (I don't have a name for them, but 美亜 said they get my body used to the reiki energy) every day for the past 2 weeks. For the last week or so, I found that my legs really wanted to squirm while I was doing the meditations. Slighter version of the same thing this morning, but only in my left leg, focused on my inner thigh.

   Also I have noticed some differences in the warmth of my hands. Or maybe not. But I'll keep going with this and see how it manifests.

5. I am the proud (?) owner of eight (8) domain names, though most of them are not really being used. Active ones: robnugen.com, thunderrabbit.com. Inactive: chatbotchats.com, chatforest.com. In between: ctbriefs.net, pekoneko.com, isfuzzywilltravel.com, airplaneday.com.

6. I've been slowly working with Dave from English Adventure to get a shopping cart set up on his website, but have had trouble because I don't have any experience with using Yahoo! Small Business accounts, and I don't have full access to the account (i.e. his password). It seems like it should be possible, but I don't know fo sheezy.

7. chatforest has seen no activity in the past several months. Basically I went away to the US for a month and haven't done shit on it since. I imagine Tariq is working his ass off as usual, but just on other things (his specific business)

8. I'm quite interested in getting back involved with PB again. I've attended a couple of PB related things, including Maruan and Kyoko's wedding, and the GET Hanami fest, plus a party at Jen and Taka's afterward, and tomorrow going to meet Natalie, although she is basically retiring from PB quite shortly.

9. PB is doing a big conference: Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War, and I'll be helping with that.

10. I recently bought a gorilla grip tripod for my camera. Used it at Jen and Taka party, including the grip functionality to get it to work on the back of a chair.

11. I sent an update to Kim Sawyer yesterday or so:

    1. I'm in a good space here. In about 4 days the final bank transfer will complete and I'll officially be out of debt, including all credit cards, and all loans from my family when I broke my shoulder. And now I have health insurance through my work.

    2. For a couple years, I had put off going to the dentist because I had no health insurance. Soon after writing "Dentist" on a big white poster (along with other things I want to do / have), I made a dental appointment (even before the insurance had been approved). I now see the wisdom in going more frequently.

    3. I've begun to connect with a friend named Travis, who I met in Houston back in late 1990s; he moved to Japan some time ago, and now he lives in Tokyo. He was actually part of the influence that brought me here. We both don't drink, don't smoke, like computer programming, like painting, like singing karaoke. Having friends who share my interests feels good.

    4. I'm reading one of the Clairvision books: _REGRESSION: past-life therapy for here and now freedom_, by Samuel Sagan, the founder of Clairvision. The book describes an excellent model to explain the variety of selves in my mind. Sometimes I say, "part of me wants to do this; but part of me wants to do that," and now I have some clarity for what could cause these disparities.

    5. Through Reiki and this non-reiki book about subtle bodies, I have a couple more techniques for building my spiritual awareness through meditation and having a language to understand what's going on subjectively in my mind.

    6. Also regarding romance, I recently re-read The Five Love Languages, and will be looking for a Japanese translation soon. (what the hell does "soon" mean???)

    7. Work is good, but not super-great. No news on business fronts, though I do have an interesting(?) internet idea that's not doing anything yet.

    8. I bought isfuzzywilltravel.com and will make URLs like jacquesrabbit.isfuzzywilltravel.com so that stuffed animals can be tracked as they travel around the world, either with their owners or via postal mail.

12. After reading the regression book, I'm definitely more interested in doing ISIS work. I think. Perhaps the different astral parts of me are going to fight for further control. Interesting to see this as it's happening.

13. I've basically finished five of my nine F0 paintings. The 6th and 7th are started, and the 8th was used specifically for Ami (I'll need to buy another so I can put it in the show in July), and the 9th is still blank white.

14. I'm getting more proficient at using SVN; I'm glad because I can remember less than a year ago I didn't know the second thing about it.

15. I recently re-discovered video tapes from PB voyage. I've slowly been importing them and putting them up online. So far I haven't done many, but perhaps I will get another up soon.