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AM Skype with MA

11:12am JST Tuesday 23 December 2008 (day 14153)

Just finished chatting with Ma on Skype. It all started when I was roused from bed by the music from the garbage truck. I knew that Karen had left some bags of bags (some of which I used to wrap presents to Fred and Ami), and they needed to be taken out. Went downstairs and found the trash already taken out. Must be Ulrike, the lovely German woman who lives next to me, because there's no one else living in the house at the moment. Rooms have been vacant for like 2 months, 1 month, and 2 days, respectively. Anyway, I was like, "I need to get Ulrike something for Christmas!" and then realized that I outsourced that request to Fred: "Can you get some Strawberry Quik for the nice German girl who lives next to me?"

Found that Fred was online, and asked him about more pressing issues first. Basically, "do you have all the pics and info you need to get to the pay phones next to GREEN FARM?"

Then, "did you deposit $1.50 for me?" (not just no, but "shit no")

Then, "did you get Strawberry Quik?" (not just no, but "shit no")

And somewhere in there we determined he hasn't gotten Glide brand dental tape. Hmmm I wonder if he got a deodorant stone. I wonder if I should just try harder to find these things in Japan instead of having them imported.

Anyway, I emailed Ma to see if she could deposit $1.50 into my account, and then I decided to just call her, and then switched to Skype cause it's free!

Ma sounds a bit like Jon; her voice has gone all hoarse from being sick. I showed her the latest haps in my life (in my room): bed for Fred, painting for Colleen, Rabby and the set of Marble Track Three construction. Neat to surprise Ma that I still have Rabby, my well-loved stuffed rabbit from when I was but a wee tyke.

This is the rabbit that (according to my brain), spent a month outside in a bush

zzzzz wtf

3:05am JST Wednesday 24 December 2008 (day 14154)

And now it's 3am!

I was busily writing about chatting with Ma, then chatted with kT for 2 hours, part of that time being spent *also* chatting with Dad. Then Ami arrived and I said bye to kT, took about 20 frames of construction on MT3, then slept with Ami, napped with Ami, and woke up to find it dark outside!

It was only 6pm, so time for dinner of noodles and mushrooms (thanks to Ami's culinary skillz) and then romped again, slept again, and woke up at 1am!

And then for the past 2 hours I've

1. read The Giant Robot and the Myna Bird, a great short story by my friend British Mike

2. Watched vids and sent a link to Dude and Fred about the death of a witness in 2004 election fraud

3. played / read two games with Zoom, an app that is basically just what I wanted to find a few days ago when wanting to create a text adventure. I've stumbled across Interactive Fiction.

   1. The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson
   2. Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean

3:33am JST

Okay; bedtime now. I've just spent 30 minutes getting the links / deets above, especially the IF part.