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Dreams

7:42am JST Wednesday 15 October 2008 (day 14084)

At the Vice Presidential campaign speech for the democratic party, but the VP was a young black woman named Valerie, who looked a lot like Charyl, but with a bit crazy hair. The speech had a completely different plan than normal. Instead of talking about her plans as VP, she brought on stage her two VP candidates for when she'd be president in the next term. I was on the front row before the stage, but she was actually behind the stage, which was basically unused as a stage, but just a barrier between the crowd and her. I Liked what she was saying, so, though the rest of the crowd was going nuts, chanting "Va le rie! Va le rie! Va le rie!" in a quick four beat rhythm, I stayed quiet, and made eye contact with her as she was on my end of the stage. Showed her two V-peace signs with my hands to say, "you're on the right track," and she smiled back at me.

Then she shifted techniques and let people swarm around the stage to her side and though it was a security nightmare, everyone stayed cool. I was even a bit worried at first, but I stayed on my side knowing that I'd just add to the nightmare if I tried to jump into the fray to keep the fray away.

Then she was wearing a gorilla suit, to show how she was going to knock down any opponents, and the crowd made a space in the middle for this mock fight, where she was going against two other people in gorilla suits. Then she got knocked down to show how she would call upon help from above, and an angel came down and picked her up and knocked down, then sat upon her opponent.

After that event, the dream shifted; I was still halfway climbed up the stage to jump into the fray, but the speech was over, and my friends were eating fruits and stuff at a brunch afterwards. Someone enticed me down with a かき (I think persimmon in English) or maybe it was a dragon fruit, and though I got down, I had to poo, so I went to the restroom, which was in a closet-door protected area, but with no real lock. Someone else came in (British Mike?) after a bit though I was still sitting (but just waiting, so no problem) and then several people came in and we were playing a game with water under a sheet of plastic on the table. Basically I was trying to squeeze water out from under the plastic to get them wet, and they (led by Sarah Buchanan) were trying to get me wet by getting the water on top of the plastic, and the whole while, we were talking about the VP campaign, debating her technique. I mentioned that I had been just about to climb into the fray, but didn't want to enfray myself.

something else, but I forgot.

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Work

10:21am JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

Sho didn't come to work yesterday, so he didn't get to see/guide/support my progress on the billing system. But no worries, there's always today to finish it before tomorrow. Not sure how we can get it done, but I imagine they can finish it up enough. (I'll be at The Pink Cow after lesson with Yurika.)

As I left the office, I told Malek that, except for the PDF output (which works, but isn't beautiful), the billing systerm is pretty solid. Basically I changed the navigation to the whole thing, whereas it used to be driven by choosing a customer to be billed (and therefore show the contract (as in one (1) contract cause there was no way to choose between them) for that customer), now we choose a contract to view the latest invoice. There can be multiple contracts per customer (I had already built that into the DB), and now we can create multiple contracts per customer, and display any contract we want.

When viewing contracts, I mean viewing the latest invoice from that contract.

ami

11:02am JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

At work now; should be working.

Ami came over last night; she cooked a lovely dinner (she's got mad skillz in the kitchen) and we noted that her 10,000th day will be on 28 December of this year! Hmmm. She's quite keen on going to Disneyland to see the holiday parade, but I seriously couldn't care much less to see it. I imagine the crowds will be horrendous, so I further imagine I'll need to just turn off all expectations/desires and just have a nice time.

She was making plans for next year and next next year, and it's sorta spooking me out. One day at a time is enough for me.