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Dream

1:15am JST Monday 4 August 2008 (day 14012)

Hang gliding from the top of Mt Fuji wasn't as easy as I had hoped, but if my om had done it, I bet I could; I had to get another jacket though; on my first trial flight it was a bit cold. I didn't want to do a full flight, but just a test, so I was lucky I could bring the kite back down after I took off from the top. I came down only like 30 meters later, and then went quickly to the bottom to get another shirt; I was looking for a tank top with high contrast against the snow, but couldn't find one before I woke up.

Morning practice

9:19am JST Monday 4 August 2008 (day 14012)

With the enthusiasm of this weekend workshop, I was able to drag myself to meditation position and practice meditation first thing this morning. And, I had another breakthrough:

Previously, I would get up to meditation position, and then about 2 minutes into it, feel shockingly tired and give up, lie back down and sleep.

But today, I got up to meditation position, and about two minutes into it, I felt the subtle tingles that I described previously as shocking tiredness. But instead of succumbing to them, I felt them. At one point I was like, what is that? and they vanished. So then I re-relaxed my outer mind and noticed they came back. And they could be perceived as crazy tiredness, but I stayed with the feeling, and stayed with the feeling, and lost consciousness for a bit, then came back, and focused on breathing (with throat friction).. etc.

Basically I passed through a mental block to meditating, and experienced some energy in a different way than previously.

Puter again

8:32pm JST Monday 4 August 2008 (day 14012)

At the Apple Store, picking up my computer again after the first fix included no R in the RGB output.

On their first attempt to show me that it's working, it didn't work. I dunno if it's their monitor or my "new" logic board.

If this shit keeps up, we'll have to call for some more drastic measures, like gimme a new new logic board. sumpin'.

8:37pm JST

Seems to work.

Said HI to Sumiyo.

8:54pm JST

Back at work, and it works.

Back to work.

Work

11:54pm JST Monday 4 August 2008 (day 14012)

On the train in Shibuya. In the end, I essentially got the stuff done that I hoped to finish today. Strictly speaking, I got exactly what I requested to get done, but not as much as I thought I wanted.

Anyway

I finished code that populates some select dropdown lists depending on values that ar available in the database. Basically the dropdowns are country, state and area, where those names will depend on the country / state. The country table is read one time from the DB, and the select and area tables are read one time each time the country is changed. So those arrays could be pretty big given that they'll hold every area in every state in the country (according to our DB), but hopefully not *too* big, given that they don't include all the countries in the DB.

I wrote a class that takes the country id and returns the states and areas as a big array. Then that is sent as a json string to javascript through mootools' 1.2 Request.JSON function. Then the array is used to populate the state dropdown and the areas dropdown each time a state is selected.

Things to add tomorrow: pre-select the country/state/area according to what the user has already chosen, and fill in the correct name of the state/area depending on the country/state.

Man.. just looking back on this bit of the project: it's taken a lot longer than I had hoped. Like basically a week longer, but I've got a pretty solid solution, which can hopefully get reused pretty easily.