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AM Dream

4:14am JST Wednesday 26 November 2008 (day 14126)

On a large ice berg, with some large ice bergs around it, and land on one side, with PB people, we were trying to get everyone back to land, but my roommate Shawn wanted to go to the next ice berg. We were yelling to him to get him to come back, but he was already in the water, nearly to the other ice berg. I wanted to send someone after hm, but couldn't, so we just continued to yell and pleaad with him to come this way. Then he wanted to goto the *next* ice berg, and we were like, "doooood it's farther away than you think!" but he headed over to it as well.

Then a small boat came our direction and I tried to stabilize it when it got to us, but just then a big wave capsized the boat; basically a big flat canoe, and we were in the water around the ice ber trying to get the canoe back upright.

Dream

6:06am JST Wednesday 26 November 2008 (day 14126)

Talking to Ami, telling her I had had the most gaseous farts all day. I was describing them by making a long series of explosion sounds with my voice. "Today my butt was all ________, _______" where the _____ represent English-unspellable glotteral throat noises using my uvula to simulate fart noises. I kept going on and on just for effect, way longer than what was actually true, just because I like making Ami laugh.

I was writing about this occurrence in my diary and then realized I need to call my mom, so I did that and she was happy to hear from me, and had read my diary and made some funny comment or question about it. Glad to talk to my mom; it had been a while!

Lunch

1:56pm JST Wednesday 26 November 2008 (day 14126)

(written 9:56am JST Thursday 27 November 2008 (day 14127))

Yesterday I went to lunch with Travis and Cynthia, a cute Brazilian woman (whose name features Brazilian pronunciation like, "sheencha"), whose manner reminds me of Charyl Teal. She's getting a Master's degree in がざわ (or something), which we might call swimming crabs in English. She said there are two basic types of crabs, and they have different names in Brazilian.

This was my third lunch at Legato: 1000 yen for a sandwich, a bit of soup, and a cute salad buffet with nice quality, but limited selection. Souper Salad is 50 times better, but this place has a high ceiling, and the glass elevator to the 15th floor offers a nice view of Shibuya. No such view where we were sitting in the restaurant, but still a good time was had.

Travis came up with an idea for a website that should be pretty easy, and strictly speaking hasn't been done yet, though the domain has just recently expired. I doubt we will do it; several people have had the idea. Actually he can't do it right now; his contract with work forbids him from doing *any* programming outside of work. Gah.

Cynthia was left out of the conversation a bit while he and I talked about how we could do the site, and some concerns about legal action taken against the site, but she said she enjoyed watching us so excited about it.

Talked about the upcoming hike, and debated how cold it may or may not be. Cynthia said she was cold outside today, and then hot when we arrived in Legato. We razzed her a bit about that.

They talked about Brazilian music that's played in Tokyo (better than "Brazilian music" played in Brazil), and I asked Cynthia if she knew about afro reggae, a band / social movement I had the great pleasure of meeting and watching in Rio when PB stopped there around February 2006 (I think). Cyn said Rio is one city she's never visited.

Marble Track 3

8:50am JST Wednesday 26 November 2008 (day 14126)

Worked a tiny bit on Marble Track 3 today. Basically getting ready to get started taking pics of the construction in progress, to make a stop action movie of the whole thing. I've got a crazy tripod custom built for my camera (for which I just bought a new battery and charged for 24 hours until last night), and just about got the tripod base connected to where the marble track base will be. The need to be connected so the movie looks right. But the thing is, once I start actually making the marble track base's base, I need to be making the movie. So here's a shot of the making of the making of Marble Track 3.