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Atsugi massagi

11:19am JST Saturday 25 September 2010 (day 14794)

Awesome day yesterday giving seven (7) thirty (30) minute massages at an elementary school at Atsugi naval base. Super special thanks to Eris for organizing everything; she made it really easy for me and all the teachers to enjoy giving/receiving metta.

Jenn, who I know via Soness, was my first client! Wow!!

She got a chair massage, and during my next client, I set up a mat to work on her lower back. Everyone after her chose the mat instead of chair. Duly noted. :-)

Next time I will have them bring a double wide mat so my knees will get more support than just carpet.

Jason, Cori, Martin, Shasta, Eri, Maiko, Victor at The Pink Cow

11:32am JST Saturday 25 September 2010 (day 14794)

At the Pink Cow for International Night, Martin was the first performer. He played some cool originals, but when he started with an accoustic guitar version of Salt-n-Peppa's "Push It," I pulled out 1000 yen and requested his CD. Now, _*strictly speaking*_ he said he wanted to play an homage to songs from the 80s, and I thought he was going to basically do a collage of songs, and I really wanted to hear *that*! I'm sure he'd be able to do it, but this night, he did not.

He didn't have copies of his CD available, so he yousentme (haha, that's a past tense transitive verb meaning "used yousendit.com to send me") his album later that evening.

I was on the front couches eating my customary bean burrito (though I forgot to request NO SALSA EX GUAC, which is what Naoya knows to type when I order, but Spencer does not yet), and eventually joined by Shasta, who knows Soness from improv, and with whom I enjoyed laughing off our proverbial asses about 6 months ago when the line in The Question Game came from a guy smoking a joint in a tie shop, "are those really ties, or are you just fuckin' with me?" and who I was glad to know also forgot my name, cause I sure couldn't think of hers at first.

A little bit later, Jason, and his um, friend Cori (sp) joined, and soon Jason said, "I'm smitten with this place! I have a bar crush."

After Martin's first set, I went back to say HI to Brad whose name I didn't remember until after leaving TPC. His wife was there so it was cool to meet her. He entertained us with stories about visiting museums when they lived in London.

Then I met Maiko and Eri, who were sitting behind the soundboard seats. They're .5 and .75 parts Japanese, respectively, with Thai and Chinese being the other parts, respectively. They met in San Diego at school. We talked a lot about cultural diffs and languages, plus Thailand. Maiko was like, "Bangkok is not big and scary; you should visit next time you go to Thailand."

Later in the evening we were talking about the US military propensity to destroy countries unfairly, and how she lost her best friend Victor who joined a special Air Force division after graduating from Harvard. We toasted to him, and I wanted to acknowledge or even mollify her sadness, but it was just last month. That's tough. Blessings to Victor.