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9:56pm JST Monday 1 June 2009 (day 14313)

Rather than try to fill in all the few days I've missed on each specific day, I'll just write a big blob entry here to summarize. Basically been based at Chez Soness for the past couple of days, working on her garden, including installing a fourth vertical fence thing, buying four more shorter fence things, planting some tomatoes, cucumbers, and two plants I couldn't identify, and removing some runners for bamboo that's growing in the way.

Was chatting on Skype with Fred during that, and happily using my iPhone to do the chat, though it got a bit annoying cause I couldn't put the phone in untouchable mode and put it in my pocket while talking to him. If I pushed the big top button the call went on HOLD. Wtf? Why would they make it do that by default? Is there a way to change it? Dang that is wack. Fred told me about a couple of close call bicycle incidents he's had in Austin, and about one that was closer than a close call. He's okay, but his bike got a bit messed up.

Corrected Yurika's translation and thought "man wave.google.com will be perfect for this!!!" and look forward to its introduction this year. My student Naoki showed me an article for Wave during our lesson on Saturday, after which instead of going to meet Bob at the Findateacher.net meeting, I headed back to Chez Soness to chill with Jesse (of the yoga variety, not my friend Jesse from Gaba) and hopefully play some Scrabble, but we instead ate carbonara sauced spaghetti and joked about my having mentioned white sauce and spaghetti as the option we did *not* have the previous day (we had calzones) and lo, it appeared on the menu that day!

Bought twitternovels.com, with the idea of letting people specify @usernames and/or #tags to identify tweets that can be compiled into a novel. I hope it's a novel idea with its brightest days ahead.

Went to JMW meeting today at Ben's Cafe in Takadanobaba. Soness invited a slew of people and the meeting freestyle-morphed into a presentation by Jon with a screen behind him (thanks to the owner Yuriko (?) (dang, I should remember)

11:24am JST Tuesday 2 June 2009 (day 14314)

Okay so now it's tomorrow and I'm headed to a meeting with Jon Lynch, Andrew Shuttleworth and possibly the Peter and/or Rob and/or Robin from Akoni, Poken distribution in Japan.