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Dream Tamara

5:24pm JST Wednesday 19 November 2008 (day 14119)

In Tamara's experimental greenhouse, which was combined with her house, and featured all sorts of plants, mostly flowers, and bags of seeds and beakers and decanters of a biological laboratory, I was talking to her about possibly combining my seed with hers, to, just for experiment's sake, see what kind of offspring would be produced. I literally was thinking altruistically, and believed this experiment could be done without violating any social norms, nor agreements made with others. As we got into the details of how it would work, I began to realize it would require a direct deposit, as opposed to a combination in the lab. At first I was like, "ooh; this is great news!" and then I remembered the agreement I had recently made with Ami, and realized I shouldn't do this experiment, although I seriously considered doing it anyway, under the scientific endeavor of research.

Tamara began making preparations for the connection, and I began mulling over in my head if I could complete the task and what I would say afterward. Decided I probably shouldn't do it. Just as it was too late, I realized I *could* do it, for there would be no reproductions nor reprecussions, but it was too late; Tamara had left.

Dream dad

7:35am JST Wednesday 19 November 2008 (day 14119)

About to go sailing with my dad, on a rather large cruise ship, we were waiting for the ship to arrive, but we were *not* in a port facility, nor even on a dock. Simply on a steep sandly slope that fortunately was not getting into my clothes despite having sat in the sand. I noted the sand was wet, but remembered I was wearing snow pants, so perhaps they were waterproofingly keeping the water from the sand from soaking through to my butt.

Around the point toward the right on this penninsula, we saw a large ship with KONAMI written on the side, offloading stuff directly to their sports facility. I was a bit surprised they didn't use the port, but decided it must be a lot cheaper to just haul their equipment up the hill, instead of hiring trucks to carry it across town. That gym equipment is heavy by its very nature!

Dad was playing on the sloping beach, causing an occassional slump of sand down toward the sea when he got to close to the steep part of the hill. After a bit, I could feel the sand eroding from under me, so I suggested that we move up a bit. Dad suddenly noted that he too was slipping, and I took his hand to pull him up. He had just gotten off work, so was wearing a striped gray suit, and had some papers in his hand. Likewise, I held the book I had been reading, _Bleeding Sun_, and didn't want to get that wet. So we inched our way up the hill, me crabwalking using my two feet, butt and left elbow as my left hand held the book, and my right arm extended to grab my dad's right hand, while he climbed forward up the hill, using both feet and his left elbow.

We reminded me of some sort of robot contraption, and I thought it might be easier if we had just put our respective reading material down, but then I realized the folly; they would get soaked! We made it up the hill to stable ground and I noted that a lot of people had accumulated, watching our climbing effort with some interest.

One guy spoke up, something like, "Now, check out these two, working hard to make it up the hill while not getting themselves dirty. A great effort required for such a skill!"

My dad chimed in "yeah!" with a tone of voice that says he's simply trying to make conversation, but didn't hear the details of what was said.

The guy continued, "all because our government decided not to build a dock for us. Mother fuckers."

My dad thought the guy was making fun of us, and was suddenly wishing he hadn't said anything until he knew what had been the guy's intention. I tried to explain, without drawing attention, that the guy was just angry about the lack of a dock, and was using our hard work as an example, and we shouldn't be embarrassed nor ashamed of anything; we're here having a great time! Who cares what he thinks!

Dreem Collean

8:39am JST Wednesday 19 November 2008 (day 14119)

From Colleen:

so i had this dream that it was your birthday and you asked me to come visit you, and i said i
couldnt but as a surprise i was going to come anyways, then i got there and you'd invited like 50 UU
kids and we were all in your apartment sitting in a circle on what i apparently imagine your living
room looks like?? Methinks i need to get to japan!!!!

WWork

8:21am JST Thursday 20 November 2008 (day 14120)

I thought I had written some yesterday.

Finally finished some coding to the point that I could show someone, and basically say it's useable. There are a few issues in data input, but once data is in the DB, it's okay.

Two big issues are with automagic fill-in of data.

1. when I click (add product) to add an item to the contract, a JSON query gets the allowed products for this company, and inserts a list item (several fields in a table) into the list of products on the screen, which includes a dropdown list of the actual product that will be invoiced each month.

   However, the price will only be written to the price field when the product selection field is changed. One imperfect solution would be to make the default "please select" so they select a product and the price gets filled in.

   The optimal solution would be to select the most common product *and* fill in its price.

2. Also, if I set some prices of products and then add *new* products, all the newly added products are reset to the default, and their prices reset to ""

I imagine these two issues are related. Oh, in fact they *almost* have to be; they are the same. When I add produts, they are set without prices, and when I add products all the prices are set to have no price.

Thanks. THat helps me know where to find the bug.

In related news, having declared the contract creation page "good enough," I moved on to the invoice page, which will use mostly the same code. Definitely the same objects and functions, but just little tweaks because the invoice items have one extra field: the month field, indicating for which month the item has been charged. (the contract indicates in general if they must pay ahead of time or after the fact, and the invoice remembers what month in particular.)

I'm going to think of a way to archive this source code; perhaps in my gmail would be an okay place. I can release it publically when it gets replaced... There's a lot of code that I remember writing but don't have anymore. I've wanted to go back and look at my old code and be like "dayyyammm!"