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9:40am JST Friday 27 February 2009 (day 14219)

In my Aunt Mercedes' house, which was designed to withstand floods, when a major climate shift had occurred, so the bottom story was flooded almost all the time. We wree up on the second floor balcony, overlooking the dark black ocean, with monster waves that came nearly to flood the top level, and oscillated down to the lower level. Though this was normal, some of the others hadn't seen such wave action so close to home. Carl from PB 52 was there, as well as Bryn and Abbey from SWD and continental YRUU. Ex figurehead of the US GWB was there as well, but I hadn't seen him yet. Bryn and I watched the ocean for a while, as its huge wave action seemed likely to destroy the house. I watched as a huge wall of water came toward us and fortunately its waveform equalized to just the level of our feet so we weren't sloshed away. Everything seemed safe, so we headed back to the common area and flopped down on some cushions to finally catch up after all these years. I told her the overview of Japan and PB and Japan, and she was like, "wow!" and then kissed me and we kissed(!) a bit and then it was time to go.

I went to the non-ocean side of the house where lots of UUs were having a lunch among oak trees and blankets and benches, organized by the owner of the camp. I saw some dishes and trays that needed to be cleared, so took them to the sink area where a woman had a glass pitcher of sudsy water for washing. I dipped one of the plates into it to rinse and then realized it was "clean" water for washing, and said "sorry" and rinsed the plate off in the correct area as I helped scoop the food particles out of her sudsy water. She looked at me as if I had quite destroyed something and wanted to call the manager. I assured her that it would be okay, but she called him anyway, so he came and I explained what had happened. He said, "oh; I thought she said it was something bad, [but it's no problem] " and that was the end of that.

Back to the ship, I was in one of the guest rooms and GWB was in there, with his smirky frog face, rinsing his hands after just having taken a whiz. I asked him where exactly he had whizzed because the room in which he was standing had only a sink on one side, and a sink for kids on the other side. He was confused by my question, and when I looked again, the sink for kids was actually a little tiny urinal. I was pretty sure it had changed just to make me look foolish in front of GWB. I left and went to the side of the ship and saw we had huge waves on all sides. I went to the front to watch our progress; we were traveling *quite* quickly I thought, perhaps because the wind was with us because it wasn't all that windy outside the ship. The waves towered over the side of the ship, and at one point I felt us drop several feet, as if we had come down off a wave to a lower one. I looked toward where we were headed, and saw some buildings with the US Capitol in the background, with its large white dome sorta hazy behind other layers of horizon. We were arriving at the Statue of Liberty, where dock workers dressed in traditional red British soldier uniforms waved to us and helped us into the parking space.

In a plane in the Andes, our runway was actually a roadway that spiraled up to the top of the mountain and then abruptly ended. Our plane curved slowly up to the top, and I wondered what would happen if a car was coming down. I figured they had these details figured out, so just watched the pine trees pass by. The road was only 2 lanes wide; I wasn't sure how our wings were coming along for the ride, but we got to the top and just lurched off the end of the road, then the pilot pushed the engines to full thrust and we were soon airborne, but with a mountain in the way. I wasn't sure we would make it,

and woke up before finding out.

Today

6:56pm JST Friday 27 February 2009 (day 14219)

It snowed and rained at the same time!! I explained dramatically to Beans via chat that this weather kept me from sending her painting!

Instead, I've been doing some iPhone tooting, that's programming by the book, as in learning, and not actually programming. But learning. I can remember entering data from COMPUTE! magazine, having little idea what I was typing. Back before the days of the internets.

Now I'm typin' code in again just so I can learn it more effectively.

Headin' out with Ami and Manuel to meet Ulrike and Florian at Hachiko.