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Dream

10:53am JST Sunday 11 January 2009 (day 14172)

With several people living in house, including Tamara (Angel), Jason (Collin dot org), and Dave (met in Jerusalem). I was planning to take a bubble bath, and invite Tamara, but Dave had already drawn water. I was like, "oh; did someone plan to take a bath first?" and we joked a bit about Rob taking a girly bath, but ended up saying Dave bathe first, and then I would use the tub. Tamara mistakenly called Jason "janette," and then couldn't remember Jason's name; we let her try to remember for a bit, and then I asked if I could give her a hug, which I did, and then we were deeper sharing, and she asked what I was doing because I have Ami, and I said I would choose Tamara, and she was taken aback, including pushing me away. I was like, "but..." and then told her I'm a sex addict, but before I said the words, my eyes darted to the upper right corner of my eyes and then back to looking at her, and then I said, "and my eyes just looked up like that because I don't want to tell you. I don't want anyone to know." She appreciated me having told her, even so.

Shopping

5:27pm JST Sunday 11 January 2009 (day 14172)

Just got back from a heavy shopping day from みなとみらい to 日本大通り to 川崎 by way of a transfer in 横浜. The day was heavy cause I carried my computer, two of Fred's books, plus Ami's erasers cause she and Fred both collect erasers.

Fulfilled our plan of buying Japanese puzzle boxes near 大さんばし, and bicycle handlebar covers in 川崎. Also bought some kitchen supplies and other shiz.

Soon it's shower time for me and then party time for new peeps in 元住吉桜ハウス。

Oh! Took neat pictures today as well. I'll upload them sometime.

3:47pm JST Tuesday 13 January 2009 (day 14174)

(written 2 days afterward)

Because we had taken the Ltd Express train, we got off in みなとみらい and walked to somethin'-somethin' park (Shinbashi?), by way of stopping for some foodage near the chrome roller-coaster-lookin' sculpture nestled between two buildings that overlook Cosmo World.

We didn't watch a performer's entire show. He started out all in black, sitting on a chair and slowly walked around the chair, slowly adding feet to his costume. He walked around twice, lowering an extra foot each time, and then was taking too long just playing with the feet, slowly dancing them in various ways, and crossing four legs in various ways. We were on a mission, so we gave him the boot and hoofed onward.

Enjoyed watching the construction as we walked across a bridge that used to pass the Muscle Musical show (not sure where it's moved since then, though I think I've seen its new home and just forgotten.. oh it's near Yoyogi Park, I think.). They're cleaning up the area around the wharf, basically to bring more customers and money to the area. Ami concluded that the new wharf shape is that of an elephant, though I can only see an elephant trunk. Fred said, "it's art, Ted. If you're not stretchin', it's not art."

Made it to the visitor center across from Shinbashi Park and Fred spent some time (30 mins?) looking at Japanese puzzle boxes and some other craftily fashioned wooden objects: pencil holders, business card holders, book place-holders, and lien holders (j/k).

I got a bit mad at Ami for not refusing nor even giving back the Yokohama City Tourist guides she was given by an old woman behind the counter. Three copies, plus three pages, all wasted. Gah.

Headed to 川崎 from 日本お踊り station, switching from みなとみらい line to 東海道線 in 横浜。 There, we visited Lazona to get some bike handlebar handle covers for Fred. He had to get ones designed for motorbikes to fit his handlebar shape, but they look like they'll work just fine. I certainly hope they do, and I hope he loves them; Ami had been like, "no way! don't get those!"

"Why?"

"cause they're not cool."

Haha, well they don't exist in Austin, so they'll be cool when he's the only one who's got 'em.

Ended up getting a few other items, including some bath salts with fire and lava drawn on the front, and some kitchen utensils of a non-metallic variety which pass the Rob-test for use on metal and non-stick pans.

Skipped out on getting a three hundred dollar trash can which has a handle for grating organic trash into bits for use in compost.

new people party

12:17am JST Monday 12 January 2009 (day 14173)

Had a welcoming party for Kirk, Manuel, and Bastian, though Bastian didn't arrive until after the party finished. He and Ami ended up chatting and drinking until not so long ago. Though Ami and I had planned for a little romp, I sent her home because she was drunk. Not even slightly attractive to me.

I'll openly admit I'm a bit envious of Bastian's quad-linguality (Dutch, English, German, Japanese, Korean) (of the last two, I don't know which he says he can't really speak, but one of them he can), but I'm pretty sure *that*'s not the reason I sent Ami home.

1:31am JST Monday 12 January 2009 (day 14173)

Ami called me to say she'd be here at 5pm instead of 2pm. She was gonna hang up, but I offered that I was sad to have sent her home, but I just wasn't turned on by drunkenness. She assured me she wasn't, blah blah, but in a way that reminded me of drunk conversations from Hitomi. Not a good start, but then she got to something interesting and told me how her dad has been acting like an ass ever since her mom died. (so yes, I understand he's sad, but acting like an ass will only disperse the family more.) I listened for as long as she wanted to talk, and understood about half of it. I'm glad she's able to get some of it out.

sdk for iPhone

2:15am JST Monday 12 January 2009 (day 14173)

Garh. iPhone SDK can't be installed on my 10.5 machine because it's not an Intel processor. And iPhone SDK can't be installed on my Intel machine because it's 10.4.