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Ultimate

6:58pm JST Sunday 17 August 2008 (day 14025)

Good wet time at ultimate. I randomly met up with British Mike, his girlfriend Su Young, Hitomi, and Yasuko on the way there. Tossed disc with that group while scrimmage continued from around noon. Mike suggested we practice different types of throws. Hitomi definitely improved during the practice. I didn't really improve noticably, given that all the throws we practiced are in my repetoire, but I enjoyed noticing those throws used during the game. There was no rain until we really got started playing; then in slowly oscillated between a fine mist like at supermarket veggie sections to a heavy sprinkle that encouraged two handed catches.

I played even less effective D than I normally do; without shoes, my feet were pretty slidy on the wet grass. Any cuts left me behind, though I did block Mike one (1) time by sorta crashing into him as we ran for the disc. I called interference on myself, but he let it play, giving me the disc. Not sure if we did anything effective after that, but I think I made a completion with that particular throw.

I was about 60% for completions today, and about half of the misses were the fault of the slippery disc, so I'm pretty happy with my accuracy. I'm definitely a bit out of running practice; I guess 6+ months off will do that.

ami

4:24am JST Monday 18 August 2008 (day 14026)

I just noticed that I didn't write anything about Ami yesterday. She stayed at my apartment while I went to ultimate, so she missed all the rain, but cooked me some lovely dinner and lunches for the forseeable future. We slept late late in the morning because I had closed the storm shutters as a "joke" -- I explain my seemingly random actions with "あきない！" which I think means basically always interesting or something.

The shuttering idea sorta backfired; I guess I shoulda known it would. Ami's an excellent sleeper, and the darkened room kept her right on sleeping, and she didn't even notice the room was far too dark for 9am or whatever time it was when I finally couldn't stand continued sleepin'.

I was a bit off-kilter yesterday (and here I am awake at 4:30am), partially due to that, partially due to not meditating, partially who knows what.

We romped and I rode TJ Bike to ultimate, came home to nice dinner and then I wanted to work on my Marble Blast level, but so as to include Ami, I showed her the game and watched as she rolled through all but the last beginner levels. I showed her the levels that I made... I'd have links right about now, but I haven't posted them to my (or any other) wiki.

I came up with a genius idea (!) for a game which saw me off to sleep.