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Sayonara Justin party

7:34pm JST Saturday 17 October 2009 (day 14451)

Tonight, soon after I finished uploading pics of my six most recent art pieces (created for 31 October 2009 presentation), I got a call from Justin Spyderman, inviting me out to his sayonara party. This was about the 6th time he had called to invite me to something and the 6th time I had turned him down since I met him at the Finda Pizza Party some months ago with Bob from Tachikawa. I turned him down again, and then was like, ya know what, I'm gonna go, and I'm on my way now!

Turns out it's in Shibuya, so it costs me nothing to take the train, plus I've had an hour to write to Simon, catch up on some email, plan to go to the Reiki Share on 25 October look up www.lifeforces.org if you wanna join, realize I'm going to The Pink Cow again tomorrow night, AND write this journal entry.

I even have my poken for sale and told Justin I'll give him half of the profit, which is pretty much the selling price because I've essentially written them off as a loss.

Ah cripes I need to snag a battery from one of the new ones because it appears my poken's battery has konked out.

7:43pm JST

done!

6:19pm JST Sunday 18 October 2009 (day 14452)

The party last night was basically a sausage fest, with about half Japanese dudes and half foreign dudes, for maybe 15 in all. Chatted with Don for a while who's teaching Japanese how to embalm bodies for display at funerals and then got to dancing, once I got good and drunk on orange juice.

About 2 other guys had as much energy as me and one was doing the steps of my step dance (basically up and down a step like in an aerobics class, which is easy enough, but then I like to add spinning around which makes it a bit more challenging).

Also available was a pole, which was painted and repainted in old flaked, repainted paint, so it wouldn't have been too good for sexy pole dancing, but it worked well for monkey pole dancing. I wasn't sure how to best use it, but then I got a couple ideas. One was to lift myself up for a bit of extra air time so as I was jumping to the beat, my feet were only hitting the floor half as often as I could have without the pole. So if the beat is like 120 bps, I was bouncing only once every second. I was surprised at how hard I found maintaining that rate, as I can maintain 1/2 second (*) bounces for a couple minutes (**) no problem. (*, **) not that I ever really timed the frequency nor duration.

But then I found a way more fun move, expanding on the lifting, throwing my feet into the air so that I was nearly touching the ceiling each time (I did once). I couldn't maintain a consistent frequency with that, well, at least not one that matched the music well. But it was pretty cool.

Once I got tired (for the second time), I went and sat down by Justin's friend Tony who was like, "what drugs are you on?"

none, mate. none.

It reminded me of the time while walking barefoot in winter at UH and a guy asked the same question.

I headed home just a bit after 10, though the party was still going pretty effectively. Though I had brought my contact case to stay out all night, it didn't seem like it'd be fun enough to make that worthwhile.

soml

To: Simon
On: Saturday 17 October 2009
By: Rob

the question and answer to what is up

I've been workin' 9 to 7pm most days for the past couple weeks..  doing website+database
programming, and learning a lot about front end website programming while I'm at it.  Everything
we're writing is in PHP + Mootools, which allows "Web 2.0" functionality pretty easily.

In other news, I'm slowly (!) writing in Python a set of indices that may be come my new journal
indexer (to work alongside journal.pl (written in Perl at http://robnugen.com/journal.pl)
Also learning some code management software called git.

I recently brought my awesome bicycle from my old apartment to the house where I'm
living/camping-in-the-living-room now.  My bike's name is TJ Bike, with whom I rode from Tokyo,
through Kobe, around Kyoto, and almost back in 2006.  I should make a page for him in my wiki.  A
few pics are online
http://robnugen.com/images/travel/tjbike/kyoto2006/almost_finished/Page3_no_blood.shtml and nearby
pages (remove "_no_blood" to see pics from *during* my surgery).  ((( but that's all old old news
you may have seen before )))

Coming soon to an apartment in Tokyo, I'll be the guest artist at a little art show thing on 31
October to which my aspiring-art-dealer friend Rimi has invited me to show some art and speak for
about 45 minutes on art.  Wow!

Just today I finished a series of 6 pieces to sorta show a thought process indicative of my
brainwaves when I paint/draw.  Scans of them are online at a URL available via
http://art.robnugen.com/outlines (I think).

Still enjoying living near the beach in Chigasaki with my friend Soness.

What's up with you?
    - Rob!