Entries this day: Beach_run Kanji_study Meditation Work emiko_lesson

Beach run

7:15am JST Wednesday 12 August 2009 (day 14385)

Kinda droopy today but I went to the beach for an amble that included some rock hopping, running along the straw-covered beach (musta been washed up by the storm, but I wonder from where it came), and running in place on small rocks.

Kanji study

9:18am JST Wednesday 12 August 2009 (day 14385)

Studied kanji via Anki, and then some more kanji. This little system might just work for me if I can keep it up.

I'm on the +500円 Shonan-Shinjuku Liner headed to Ebisu for work.

Meditation

7:43am JST Wednesday 12 August 2009 (day 14385)

Just fell asleep a bit after doing my 15 minute meditation.

Work

9:40pm JST Wednesday 12 August 2009 (day 14385)

Today at work, I didn't write any code on the network. I just drew out screenshots and flowcharts to prepare for a meeting with Alfonz and Nate, presenting my ideas to them. By the time we had the meeting, Alfonz had already seen it, so I was basically just showing Nate, who had a few change requests and some really good ideas to make the flow better for end users. Tomorrow I'm going to draw out another flowchart across two pages to uncrunch the little boxes I had to use when I drew V2 of the big controller script. I'm glad to have persevered through the whole day without writing code. I'm pretty sure it's going to make the coding WAY faster in the end, and really really easier to do/debug/maintain. Not like my last job where we were always rapid developing code. Well, I drew some flowcharts, but mostly we just coded and often made a mess of things.

emiko lesson

9:38pm JST Wednesday 12 August 2009 (day 14385)

Had a karaoke lesson with Emiko today, as in we had an English lesson in a karaoke booth because I thought she might benefit from practicing fluency by reading and singing English. She had trouble keeping her eyes off the Japanese pronunciation guide, but generally had fun, and we may do such lessons again, just not every time.