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lesson

19:38 Thursday 15 December 2016 JST

Good GG lesson; we looked at three sentences of Mayumi's paper about the history of sushi.

party

23:28 Thursday 15 December 2016 JST

After the lesson we went to Ozeki, a new restaurant owned by Sarupapa's friend. Sarupapa has been working there for a few weeks now. Great food and umeshu and dessert! And of course great company; so glad everyone gets along so well.

todays schedule

07:54 Thursday 15 December 2016 JST

07:50 class starts now breaktime until students arrive 08:50 class finishes 09:30 go to clinic for annual checkup, subsidized by the city 10:00 go eat 10:30 online I-group 12:30 online I-group finished 14:00 teach at science+promotional museum 17:00 finished at science+promotional museum 17:20 train to Akihabara 18:30 lesson with GG 19:30 finish GG lesson 20:30 dinner with Sarutachi, Lin, GG 23:00 dinner finished 24:00 arrive home 24:30 sleeping time

08:03

I wish I could partake in sleeping time right now, but I'm in a glass room and ostensibly on the clock, though have no students here yet.

14:06

Great online I-group. They helped me recognize why I feel angry when things are wasted. Basically when people waste things, I think that means they don't care about the environment. Part of me doesn't care about anything, so I'm projecting that part of me onto people.

But that's not why I'm writing. I'm on a train having just left Tachikawa. My 2pm - 5pm lessons at the museum are next week, so I got to engage in a nice nap on Nambu line on the way to Tachikawa, and I might take another nap on the way to Akihabara.

wednesday late thursday early

07:48 Thursday 15 December 2016 JST

My transition from Wednesday to Thursday each week includes just about 4 hours of sleep. I work until 9pm at JB (get home at 10:40pm) and then teach at 7:50 the next morning (for which I wake up at 5:49am). So I guess if I go zoom straight to sleep, I could sleep 7 hours. I'll try that next year when the schedule resumes after the holidays.

Today I'm pretty tired, have a headache, and didn't enjoy the crowded train on the way here. (if I'm awake and 元気 it doesn't phase me)

11:10 Friday 10 August 2018 JST

Not saying these are related, but they are not entirely not related.

work

17:24 Thursday 15 December 2016 JST

Worked on iPhone app a bit, wiping out the paddle and balls from breakout style, and just allowed touching the bricks to destroy them. I added little explosion impulse (reverse gravity) when each brick is destroyed so it's like they explode and blow the other bricks around the screen.

func breakBlock(_ node: SKNode) {
  // boom simulates an explosion which affects blocks around the block
  let boom = SKFieldNode.radialGravityField()
  boom.strength = -0.5
  boom.categoryBitMask = BlockCategory
  boom.region = SKRegion(radius: Float(node.frame.size.width) * 2)
  boom.position = node.position
  boom.falloff = 4
  boom.run(SKAction.sequence([
      SKAction.strength(to: 0, duration: 1.0),
      SKAction.removeFromParent()
      ]))
  addChild(boom)
  node.removeFromParent()
}

(source)

Swift (along with SpriteKit) is pretty easy to work with for this kind of thing.