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Email to janette

janettttttteee!!!!                                    07 January 2009

I miss you miss you miss you lots!!  Somehow we've been able to enjoy
ourselves here in podunk Tokyo.  We went to a place called Shibuya and
to a cafe called Denmark because that's where you and Freddo went
while you were here last time.

How's stuff for you?  I'll be heading to a clinical drug trial in
Kagoshima just as Fred leaves, make several dollars and use that to
study Japanese intensively.   Then when my next job search time comes,
I'm gonna apply for jobs here, *and* apply for jobs in Dubai.  Just
because I'm ready for another big change.

Fred and I went to play ultimate frisbee on Sunday, and Ami came to
play too!  Then we went to "weekday" ultimate last night, and it was
much funner than I expected, cause basically when a point is scored,
the other teams picks up the disc *right* there, and begins to play.
More like basketball, so no time is wasted walking back to the other
side of the field, setting up, making plans, hucking the disk, etc
etc.  Instead, we just play!  run!  go!  Whooooo!!!

A few days ago we enjoyed a white elephant gift exchange at my
ultimate friend Genny with a G's house.  We were two Gs at her house,
so she was Genny with three G's, but I didn't think to tell her that
until just now. Ah well.

Today Fred and I are going to Shibuya for a 90 minute dessert buffet
fest, and then roll ourselves to internet access and get back to work.
 He's been working on his PhD, and I've been working on random stuff,
video game, a text adventure, meditation, facebook and email.  I don't
want you to waste more time online, but if you wanted to get a
facebook account, I would be happy to be your friend on there too!

I love you bunches.   I love you bunches of flowers.

    Love Love Love
      - Rob!

Escape to Shibuya

5:25pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2009 (day 14168)

Fred and I have escaped the clutches of my warm room with sporadic internet to visit Shibuya and embark on a 90 minute dessert chowing adventure at Sweets Paradise before heading to solid internet access at Manboo. I've brought both my computers so I can synchronize my pics of MT3 construction with my storage space on S3 with my silver PowerBook (purchased from Jason) while doing Flash programming on this computer (white MacBook). Maybe I need to name these computers and ... oh wait; I have named the other one. Fred was like, "you need to name your computer," and I was like, "bah; who cares??" and 2 seconds later I discovered "paintbrush" on my local network, and was like, "wtf is paintbrush?" and Fred goes, "that's my computer's name!" and I go, "*I* want a name for my computer!!"

So I named the PowerBook ±¦±ýº¸±ý. I think I'll name this one ¸µµ¤.

State of My Life

10:41pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2009 (day 14168)

1. Fred and I are in Manboo internet cafe in Shibuya. It's our second time here, and T minus 6 days until he heads home.

2. Foodwise, we've been to The Pink Cow, Sweets Paradise, CoCo Curry near Motosumiyoshi station, a cafe even closer to Motosumiyoshi station, and several home-cooked meals at home, generally cooked by Fred or Ami.

3. Fred has been diligently working on his PhD homework, getting his brain wrapped around his massive, cryptically written FORTRAN program that he inherited as a way to solve for X where X is a matrix of points around a ring of invertibrate tubes or something.

4. I've been enjoying being lazy for the time we've been together, though parts of me thinks I've been tooo lazy; my room has become messier overall; I haven't written an End of Year Rob Update (though I started a Rob Update on 22 December); I haven't done much on MT3.

   But I have been meditative more than once in the past week; enjoyed chatting with Ami some; enjoyed chatting with Fred a lot; signed up for a tumblr account (Rob Nugen on Tumblr), and worked on the Flash game that Tariq and I have been doing for several weeks (8?)

   Oh, and I finished Colleen's painting!

5. I'll be headed to Kagoshima on Tuesday. At the same time, Fred will be leaving for Narita, then arriving in Atlanta before he leaves. In Kagoshima, I'll be chillin' for two weeks in the same clinic where I chilled in February, but this time for 30 more 万円, so that's nice.

6. After that, I'll have the equivalent money of 6 months at my old job, so I'll put that toward taking intensive Japanese lessons, and finally spend some time to learn this language.

   Perhaps I'll start writing in my mixi account at that point. Proabably haven't written in it for a year.

   /li>

7. I really like Colleen's painting, and I want to scan it at a high DPI and make some posters of it. Oh, and while I'm in Kagoshima, I plant to work on several pieces during my free time there.

8. I posted on Facebook a note about Israel destroying the shit out of civilians in Gaza. Really not happy about them doing that, and have visualized world peace in that zone. Peace, man. Peace.

   Watched a snippet from _Why We Fight_ by BrasscheckTV. I've seen the whole video before, and this abbreviated version is just 10 minutes, so check it out.

9. going to get some more hot chocolate now.

10. Just read about twitter getting their admin site hacked because of a terrible password. I hereby recommend SuperGenPass for creating passwords for websites. It hashes your master password with the site domain to create a strong unique password for each domain you visit.

11. Ah. I'm reminded that Fred and I wanted to sort out a way to use GPG or PGP to send secured messages to each other.

Sweets Paradise

6:19pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2009 (day 14168)

Welp, here we are! We've been here 10 minutes, eaten about a plate worth each.

"I'm gettin' kinda full."

"Me too."

"But, this was a good idea."

"Yep. And we've done it."

"Yeah, we've successfully sat in a room full of high school girls for 10 minutes... and gotten bored."

Fred, cheating, just got a plate of spaghetti and some bread stuff.

My email to Ami:

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Train back home

12:27am JST Thursday 8 January 2009 (day 14169)

On the train now, headed back home. We took a short excursion down into the ÉûÅÔ¿´Àþ, and I showed Fred the platform over the tracks which will soon be the extension of my Tokyu Toyoko Line. (yes, mine.)

Fred was impressed that the dude at the gate let us in so easily after I was like, "can we just look at the line?" and he was all, "just look?" "yep." and he let us in. Sometimes I love Japan.

And we just looked and took some pictures and got a woman to take our picture and headed back out. Good times.

I had to whiz, so when we got to my line (up the escalator I hadn't yet used), we went to the midpoint on the line and down to the loo. I expelled probably 10 CCs per second for 30 or more seconds, but ain't sure how one could reliably measure the volume per second.

I hope the clinical trial requires us to collect all our urine so we can have a whizzing contest. I doubt it will happen that way, but.