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state of my life address

##16:00 Wednesday 10 December 2014 JST##

1. TLDR: I've been a lazy bum recently. And I love it.

1. Maybe the coolest thing recently: Mutsumi introduced me to

Funatsu-san, who liked my art and asked if she can put some in a show in January!

1. I've been teaching a few lessons per week with a language school,

but other than that, doing a lot of Minecraft, and drawing a few mazes. With the news above, I'm more excited to make some art!

1. Lin and I live in Kawasaki with our two cats, Ted and Jennie, who

are currently not allowed to go outside nor sleep with us at night. I'd love to let them outside, but Lin agreed with the shelter that she will keep them inside. We had let them sleep with us, but one of them urinated on Lin's comforter so they've lost their bedroom priveleges.

1. I'm arriving now at a train station where I need to change; I might

forget about this entry.

1. I've just moved from AWS to DH. Due to a blip in Dreamhost's DNS

something something, I had to write to them to get the site activated; I think it's working now, and I Stopped the EC2 instance.

1. Because I'm using markdown to mark up my journal, I don't have to

use the actual number when creating numbered lists.

1. I'm sitting in the driver's seat of a driverless train on the

Seaside Line, heading to 福浦. (I guess that kanji is correct.) This is what driverless cars might feel like, except my insulated environment (in the train) is inside an insulated environment (elevated roadway with limited public access)

1. Hmm. I don't see a way to make multiple paragraphs within one

numbered section.

1. From this train, I can see a large wind turbine, which I htink is

the same one I could see from our previous apartment (in 朝日町ハイツ)

1. Oh shit I see the line splits; I hope to goodness that I'm on the

right track!!! Ah, I guess that's not for public use; the line drawn on the map is just a straight line with no branches.

1. This is more like a stream of consiousness thing instead of a State

of My Life.

1. I'm still using my iPHone 4S which I've had for a while. The

battery has been draining a bit faster than I'd like. I thought I had all the energy-drainers turned off, but maybe not. Maybe the battery is just getting tired. My phone number is the same one I've had for years in Japan.

1. Main work projects: unpaid iOS work with Tariq (though we are

hoping for some sales with our latest set up updates)

1. Every time I use my computer for longish periods of time, my hands

get cold. Especially my mouse hand. I imagine taht's a good reason to not do computer stuff for longish periods of time. Is it my body's way of telling me to stop it altogether? Or shall I just set up a more ergonomic setup?

1. I need to convert AB's EC2 instance to two instances: one for DB

and one for the website. I'm guessing the DB can be behind a firewall; I don't know the optimal way to set it up, much less the optimal way to transition to that new configuration. I'll basically just rtfm, and maybe some toots, and hopefully it will be all good. AND I'll document the proverbial shit out of everything I do.

1. I've got emacs set up to create journal entries, though I don't

have the final touches set up. I mean I can type C-x j to start a new entry, and it will even ask for the title, tags, and let me overwrite the date if needed. However, if I do overwrite the date, I'd like it to put the date I enter and add a note saying the actual date the entry was written. I don't yet have a keystroke way to insert a new date in the middle of the text, but that's not as high priority as having entries named "dream" automagically get class='dream' divs wrapped around the text. I had that kinda stuff set up before, but I don't know where the code may be hiding. It could even be lurking around on my current local drive, but I'm not sure.

1. I haven't written any automated stuff to have Sublime do journal

entries, partially because I haven't registered (paid for) Sublime yet (and therefore don't use it much).

1. Lin and I went to the Tokyo ET Contact group in November, and plan

to go again in December. I'm hoping to attend most of the meetings; I want to foster relations between our civilizations. I want a degree in intergalactic diplomacy (or at least intergalactic relations)!

1. I'm scheduled to go to CPC clinic in February; not sure if I'll do

it though.

1. Lin and I are planning to take a reasonably

vaguely long bicycle ride during the new year holidays. No specific plans yet.

1. I need to go to 二子玉川 to get (one of) her Christmas

present(s). (I promised her a Harrod's bear each year that we don't have kids.)

1. I've been using some of my free time to meditate more and maintain

awareness of consciousness. I haven't noticed any "amazing" experiences, not that conciousness itself isn't amazing.

1. Been working with Soness a bit to help get her paperwork sorted.

It's fun to chat with her more often than we had been for the past
couple years.

1. I ain't really talked with Dad in a while, nor with Ma. Nor with

Fred, for that matter; he and I used to talk just about every day
for a couple months there.  I sent him a present and it's been
chillin' at the post office in Austin (I can tell from the
tracking website); he must be busy!  I sent him a reminder and he
was like, "oh yeah!!"

• - - -

From my perspective, at a larger scale:

1. We still live primarily in a fiat currency based system. Some

crypto currencies have been developed on "the blockchain"
(Bitcoin, Litecoin, probably others), and some other similar
currencies have been developed, my favorite being Dogecoin.

1. We still primarily burn fossil fuels for energy. There are

whistleblowers online saying free energy is possible, but hidden
from public access.

1. We still primarily use "conventional" methods of

transportation. There's not even a specific word that I know of to
describe transportation not via teleportation.

1. Extraterrestrial life has not been publicly acknowledged by (most?)

governments.

1. Earthquakes are officially not predictable. Weather is not

particularly changeable (that I know of, except by cloud seeding
to make it rain)