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Cough

3:41am JST Sunday 20 July 2008 (day 13997)

Had a bit of a coughing fit (due to being cold?) and woke up to put on some clothes. Feeling a bit less coughy now.

Sean Tevis for Congress

Fred sent me a link to Sean Tevis' xkcd style campaign comic, and I've just sent him (Sean Tevis, not my brother) $10, and posted this to Slashdot:

Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in Kansas against Arlen Siegfried. (multiple typos on this page!)

Sean Tevis supports the same things I do, and he's campaigning xkcd style.

I sent him money and I don't even live in Kansas..

I'm amazed by the typos on Arlen's page! I found four typos and two errors that resulted in sentence structures that don't even make sense..

before party

4:19pm Sunday 20 July 2008

Not sure who all is going to come tonight, but at least Akiko, (her friend Rimi), Ami and I will be there, and Natalia RSVPed in the affirmative at one point, but earlier today she was feeling a bit sick.

It's been a semi-lazy day here at the ol' room-sized casa. I did a little bit of coding on the new map for chatforest, but it's nothing more than just the hello world of Google maps. Need to get some data and points added on, but not sure how to do that. Actually I pretty much know how to do it, but not sure how to do it programatically.

Have showered and waiting for Ami to be ready to leave. (She likes to sit in front of the door, blocking it. But at least she'll get up when I ask, unlike Hitomi back in the day.)

zzz after Art Show Opening

4:19pm Sunday 20 July 2008

Nice time at the party; we got to watch a movie _The Way Out_, which I'll characterize as a gangster flick set in Japan, with non-Japanese gangsters, and then meet some of the actors, including Edward L. Papazian, who played the gang boss, and a guy named Austin, who played the guy who got Out, without killing Papa Godfather.

Double lovely was chatting with Akiko and her friend Rimi, who wants to be an art dealer, and purchased _Blind Lines_ as her first acquisition in her art collection, which will be shown on 10 August in her home. They cuddled with U-Cow the whole time they were there, and I heard for the first time that Rimi was *also* in San Francisco with Akiko and Francois, at their (Akiko and Rimi's) mutual friend's wedding. But no photos of Rimi, cause she, like Akiko, claim shyness in front of the camera. "I'm anti-photogenic."

What???

Chiemi came for about 2 minutes, and asked some questions about my art technique, but she left pretty soon after the movie started.

Natalie called and said she couldn't come, but hopefully will be able to on Wednesday.

Megumi came for a while, and I narrated the pieces as she was in the bar scopin' 'em out. I was with her when we met Edward, mentioned above.

Chatted with Megumi about Macau and bungy, and she told me about her Mt Fuji climb this past weekend. She almost didn't make it at one point, but then when she heard "just 15 more minutes" after having rested about 30 minutes (after hearing "just 30 more minutes" repeated for some hours), her energy was rejuvenated and they saw a lovely sunrise from the top.

I told her about our storm and lack of sunrise when climbing with Sumidasan and the cute girl whose name I've forgotten.

(( whatever happened to ol' Teddy Bear Tomoko and Sumidasan, I'm not sure; they met up with me after my shoulder breakage, but then I haven't heard from them, even thought I've emailed them a couple times... ))

Megumi told me she didn't know about the possible job in the US (won't know until Tuesday), and then, despite weariness, she left to get some footage of a DJ who was performing at Parties 4 Peace.

Chatted for a while with Edo Papa Godfather Zian, and then he bought drinks for me an' Ami. I gave him my email and he said he can help me get started in some modeling stuff here in Tokyo. Sweet.

Tomorrow, I'll put pics up on U-Cow's website.