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First real lesson with Naoki

10:44am JST Sunday 10 May 2009 (day 14291)

Naoki, who I met through Cow-Go, and I, who I've been meeting daily for years now, will have our first real lesson today in Omori. He'll be heading to Stanford soon, and wishes to take two lessons per week for the next 2 months. That's great news for my income; (disregarding travel expenses) the lessons will pay for 1/3 of my rent/utilities for two months.

12:29pm JST

Good first lesson, talking about his trip to Stanford and his Qs about checking and savings accounts in the US and his wife considering going to school at Stanford while he's there researching ways of teaching computers how to understand lots of information.

Switched to topic of computers and Mediawiki, Pukiwiki (popular in Japan), and PBwiki (not sure of its merits).. and then was telling him about my ongoing evaluation of Drupal, which is looking generally good. He made some suggestions for what we need on Cow-Go website.

THEN, when it came time to pay he whipped out his wallet and asked if he could pay in advance via bank transfer. 10 lessons = 30,000 yen, exactly the amount I planned to borrow from Andrew to pay my rent this month.

exactly the amount I planned to borrow from Andrew to pay my rent this month

If Naoki pays tomorrow or Tuesday, it's exactly the amount I won't have to borrow from Andrew to pay my rent this month. Awesome!!!!!

Ideas for Cow Go

12:07pm JST Sunday 10 May 2009 (day 14291)

Success stories, pics of teachers + profiles + when they're available, calendar

Pre-contract info (marketing), and post contract info (events).

for the love

3:11am JST Monday 11 May 2009 (day 14292)

Stayed at 4 The Love at The Pink Cow until like 10:30pm. Fun dancing, but the music was house, which didn't feature heavy boomin' beats that I prefer.

HI to Traci, Leslie, Moonie, David, Chris, Mitch, and maybe some others.