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Dream

8:52am JST Friday 10 October 2008 (day 14079)

On the train now, but I just saw a guy with two 1000 yen bills sitting on a counter and wondered if he'd be able to catch them if a wind picked up.

Inside a large foyer with glass wall and doors in the center, we could see outside a tornado was coming. We had no time to retreat, so I suggested we just hold fast to the railing on the steps inside the room as the tornado approached.

It came closer and uder and paused outside the glass wall. The glass stayed intact.

Early

8:58am JST Friday 10 October 2008 (day 14079)

Though I was up till the early hours of the morning (1:10am) reading Volume Two of Atlantean Secrets, I'm already on the train headed to Shibuya. I don't have to be at work until 11am, but I'm meeting Tariq at 9:45 at Krispy Kreme in Shibuya He says he's got a cool idea to show me regarding our (our? more like his) new website idea. I have the domain and the programming skillz, but he's been the idea guy fo' sho'.

Anyway, I was working on the second commissioned piece (blind lines style) fr Rimi this morning; it's due to be finished today, and it's allllmost finished, but not quite. Maybe 30 more minutes. It's taken so so long compared to 4000 yen. I either gotta find a different way to do this style of painting (perhaps not paint the edges and back (what's a painter suppoed to do? these canvases wrap right around the edge of the board. Can't stop painting (this style of painting) if there's still canvas to be painted!)

Perhaps it will be better if I paint these style on paperboard (not sure what else to call it) so that I can stop at the edge with clear conscious. Cause seriously, painting around the edges has been a trick and 1/2.

I'd not paint these anymore at all, but it's pretty much the one canvas that everyone liked when I showed them at Pink Cow.

I've got a few more ideas along these lines of paintings; if more requests come in, I will look into doing those as well.

I haven't eaten breaky, so I'm lookin forward to a free sugarshocker donut at Krispy Kreme.

debt free

9:48pm JST Friday 10 October 2008 (day 14079)

Paid John I. 2.5 万 and now officially owe no one no money. Oh wait shoot I still owe Fred and Ma $200, though it's been called even by Fred. I'd like to make it even more even.

money makin'

9:51pm JST Friday 10 October 2008 (day 14079)

Invited Ami to join when I met Akiko and Rimi at Hachiko where I received my first payment (4000 yen) for a commissioned art piece! Rimi's friend wanted to buy a piece like "Blind Lines," but with my own choice of colors. I created "Blue Blind" over the last week and presented it to Rimi today. She and Akiko seemed to quite like it. Nice feeling to have my art appreciated.

We ate at the Modern Japanese restaurant after being asked to wait 20 minutes at the もんじゃ place across the street. After Rimi further surprised me with a certificate to prove my piece was officially painted by me, I signed it in the same style that I signed the painting, including drawing a thin green line around the signature. They all clapped and I gave a "speech" as if to the room, though there was only one other couple nearby, and they paid no heed.

Starting with an omelette-like egg roll (nothing like eggrolls from Vietnamese or Chinese restaurants in the US), we had only a couple of items. A salad and then some nabe thing. Just finished the one course plus tea before a woman started smoking nearby, so I suggested we promptly escape for ice cream!

Went to Baskin-Robbins where I got a double scoop big cone of ポッピングシャーワー (cream flavored ice cream with green and red pop rocks (carbonated sugar candy) in it), Akiko got a single scoop big cone of pumpkin flavored ice cream, and Rimi got cheesecake of some variety. All were nice; fortunately for me, I liked mine best. :-)

We ate outside the shop, where I dripped ice cream on Uncle Cow and was chastised for unceremoniously throwing away the top of my cone which felt soft like it was a few days old. Bluh.. I'm surprised cause I thought that shop got a lot of action. Maybe they don't make their own cones (it's a small shop, but so are griddles. I didn't look carefully.)

Chatter chatter about randomness and then John I and his girlfriend walked by! Ami noticed them, but they didn't notice us. Granted, I was turned around so they wouldn't have seen my face nor newly ice cream enhanced Uncle Cow.

Then to プリクラ partially because I wanted to capture the moment but especially because Akiko and Rimi said they hadn't been in years! Wha???

Funny pictures and generally great time, especially since Akiko has an aversion to smiling for cameras. Funny girl.

Headed slowly back to the station and dropped off Rimi at Hachiko Yamanote entrance, then Akiko near RanKing RanQueen, and Ami and I are now on Tokyu Toyoko Line headed to our respective houses. She's going to her crib tonight so I'll be painting some more art, blessing my future artistic career.