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all day christmas shtuffs with lins family

##00:51 Sunday 23 December 2012

I'm still not quite great with the caretaking.  For example, when I came up to the table to just sit, they were like, "do you want sushi?  do you want rice?  do you want cake?  which do you want?" and I was like, "no thanks" and then boom a plate appeared and food that I didn't want was presented.

Um.

I noticed how spoiled the kids are. I don't think it's just these kids, but I've heard rumors and anecdotal evidence that it's like this for many Japanese kids. Every whine, pout, request, was immediately pandered. Ugh.

We can't touch the 9 month old baby without washing hands first. Why? Don't we want to build up his immune system?

When the 2 year old was trying to pull Lin's iPad away from the 6 year old who had been playing with it, I saw them doing a little tug of war. I was like, "false," and simply removed it from the realm of possibility.

Playing hide and seek with the kids was fun, reminding me of Fred and I playing hide and seek.  But I was bemused by how entertained they were with so few places to hide.  I mean, there were three places to hide:  (kneeling under the table, standing on the lee side of a shelf, and standing behind the door of the room).  Anywhere else would be immediately visible when someone entered the room.  I showed them a fourth place to hide, made by moving the very light couch a bit forward and lying down behind that.

I found an excellent hiding technique which I wasn't able to implement: climb over a counter and through the door to the next room (which was blocked by the counter).  I couldn't use it because the room into which I would vanish was adjacent to the waiting area used by people before trying to find the hiders.  Hmm.

I wore shoes today (for the first time since May ) because it was cold, and wet, and* I have three (3) skin splits (as opposed to shin splints?) on my left foot. My right foot is fine.

(* except for the day I went to get my visa, and two days I went to meet my client for business meetings)

went through a teleporter without being told

##05:25 Sunday 23 December 2012

_In a military built facility, there was a door designed for entry only, but from previous experience, we knew it would be more efficient to just go out the in door than to go around to the designated out door.  However, this time when we went out the in door, we were suddenly in a room 20 yards back from where we thought we'd be. I was like, "?" and then went through the proper out door and we all got into the group again..  I asked others if they noticed anything weird while coming out of the facility.  Three of us agreed on the same experience.  I confronted one of the technicians there. "Is there a teleporter in the facility?" and she directly lied and said NO.  I was like, "okay, has anyone else expressed the same thing that we did: they were unable to go out the in door because they were shifted backwards in the facility?   She said yes, because that question is one they hadn't been told they must lie about._

_ah ha! we thought.  What a prefect way to test the technology for mass consumption to see if it can be safely used on people!_