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Break from breakfast routine

pictures including a bit of blood

Sunday summary

11:06am JST Monday 1 September 2008 (day 14040)

Because I still haven't gotten Emacs correctly set up on my PowerBook (from Jason), I didn't write anything yesterday, cause *this* computer doesn't have its own place in my room. I have to swap the computers or make new space, and it was just too much trouble. Or I'm just lazy, or a combination of both.

But that's not why I'm writing. :-)

Yesterday featured sleeping late and then showing Ulrike to Motosumiyoshi after taking some pictures of my fork-bending prowess, where she arrived a couple days ago, having no idea how to get to the apartment, and ended up with five people helping her in the rain. A taxi was involved. Anyway, the morning we walked out there was sunshiny and nice. I enjoyed the process of slowly examining the station, fixing it into memory.

She led us back to the house, turning left at the first left which turned out to be not the same first left that we had used; she sorted out the difference quickly enough. Identified home by seeing Ami on my apartment balcony doing laundry. Turns out I had left a pack of kleenex in one of my pockets.. oops!

After helping Ami hang the rest of the clothes, we chatted a bit after I wanted to bite her foot and she was like, "no way!" and I was like, "please?? I'll never ask for another favor ever again, ever cross my heart, etc" (there's actually sortof a word for this in Japanese, that I'd translate basically as a once-in-a-lifetime-request, but it can only be used once (per set of participants).)

Anyway, she was like, "really? really? you know this is your one chance, right?"

And I was like, "wait stop wait wait," and we had a bit of a discussion because I have already used my once-in-a-lifetime request with Ami, and I was taken a bit aback to think that she had forgotten it *again*, because she did forget it once.

I took a second / minute to cool down and then re-engaged the conversation and was relieved to know that she did remember my one request: I want her truth. Whatever it may be; I want her to speak truthfully with me.

Back to smiles and kisses, then we walked with Ulrike to Musashi-kosugi, to show her that station and the ward office, and Ami got her DOCOMO phone turned off (in favor of her iPhone), and then we went grocery shopping at a new 24 hour store called Foodium, and I slurzzled 200 ml of ice cream on the way back.

Then a big fat nap before dinner, and I decided how I'm gonna arrange pics on Uncle Cow's site: basically by giving them all categories. I had been trying to make pages to collect similar pictures, but that's a nightmare and 1/2 for each desired category. Using actual categories is about 10 times easier, and an almost perfect solution. I'd like the option of having category galleries embedded on the main page. But, I can do that by hand..