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22:48 Wednesday 19 October 2016 JST

1. I'm trying to scp images from my Android phone to b.robnugen.com
2. I stubbed and bloodied my toe on an escalator in Torihama station
3. I voted for Andrew Basiago
4. I just got back from staffing MKP in OZ
5. Cine's long time friend from back home suddenly died today.

permanent resident

22:46 Wednesday 19 October 2016 JST

I now have permanent residency status in Japan.

I don't really know how I feel about it. Good? Traitor?

After cutting my toe on the way to work, I put some tissues on it and it stopped bleeding without having to tell anyone at work. Yay. I don't want to be pressured into wearing shoes just because of a little blood.

On the way home I asked Cine where she had been and she said a family member passed just 7 hours ago. I'm about to call her after I get off the train.

Here are the gory details I wrote to Fred:

• 1:19pm: leave house 11 minutes early
• 1:27pm: arrive at bus stop 15 minutes early
• 1:45pm: discover that Google has incorrect bus information
• 1:59pm: get on bus
• 2:30pm: arrive at train station
• 3:00pm: miss my stop reading about new URL characters
• 3:04pm: express train passes station
• 3:10pm: go back one station
• 3:15pm: the next train terminates one stop before my stop
• 3:23pm: finish the above while waiting for next train to take me one more station.
• 3:25pm: phone battery at 8%
• 3:29pm: get on train to go to station where I would have deviated to go to immigration office, which closes at 4pm
• 3:31 arrive at station; gonna ask taxi
• 15:34 Took a taxi to the immigration office.
• 15:44 paid 8000 yen for revenue stamps for gubt worker salaries.
• Wallet now on fumes.
• 15:48 waiting at immigration for them to give my new card. Ten numbers in front of mine (395). Glad I didn't ask my taxi to stay. He was a nice old man who correctly estimated the fare
• 15:52 four numbers in front of me
• 15:54 a Japanese man said he recognized me from the TV show which broadcast May 2nd, 2016 (I think)
• 15:56 number rolled back; now five in front of me.
• 15:58 numbers spinning out of control; only three ahead of me (392 now)
• 16:00 have to be at lesson in one hour
• 16:10 number hanging tough at 392
• 16:11 393
• 16:11 394
• 16:13 I'm a permanent resident of Japan
• 16:15 bus left
• 16:15:30 I arrived at bus stop
• 16:16 started running
• 16:25 missed train
• 16:25:30 wait no I didn't
• 16:25:40 cut my toe on escalator but (and) made the train (bloody)
• 16:31 A woman gave me some tissues
• 16:34 arrived at my work station on time for work