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before lesson

07:38 Monday 05 June 2017 JST

I feel a bit tired this morning, and am not too sure how I will present today's material; it depends on how long the discussion of "What does it mean to be Japanese" goes.

07:51 Monday 05 June 2017 JST

Egad I am falling asleep.

Also, I just remembered this morning that I still have to test t.CB and m.CB and api.CB before making the new CB server handle live traffic.

caroline lecture

last night

(written 07:39 Monday 05 June 2017 JST)

Two weeks ago, I chose the location for Caroline's presentation yesterday. The setting worked out quite well, for those people who were able to find it. Seems that a couple people were lost in the park.

Lin came to the lecture as well. yay! I'm glad she really enjoyed it, and could witness some of the reactions people had (crying) when meeting/greeting Caroline.

I met Michael for the first time that night, and Jorge for the second time. I saw Cozmo in the audience for a bit, but he left before I said HI to him.

Michael and I chatted for a bit, and he seemed to understand the value of men's groups, saying that he has been in some. He may join Tokyo men's circle. Jorge may join as well. Today I want to send them some info on the group.

Jorge, Michael, Rohini, Lin, Miho, Lisa, and I walked Caroline to her station where she and Michael left our group. The rest of us walked to a restaurant, but Jorge headed home once we found a place. Rohini, Miho, Lisa, Lin, and I ate a burger place where they had sample cup sizes with fake ice.

I tolk Miho and Lisa about the co-gender authenticity circle and they seemed interested in attending.

lesson

09:50 Monday 05 June 2017 JST

I survived the lesson pretty genkily; we had a discussion about what it means to be Japanese, and of the original list from which we later culled about 2/3rds of the items, we had

Japanese people

• believe they are Japanese
• grow up in Japanese school system
• like to wait in long lines
• watch NHK on New Year's day
• are proud of Mt Fuji

That last one intrigued me; I had not predicted it.

set up twilio to call me in case of ...

14:04 Monday 05 June 2017 JST

We are in a kinda weird place with CB. They are moving to a new server / dev team. Fair enough. I knew it would not last fo-eva but as of now, I am updating their servers to new Ubuntu at the same time they are planning to shut down these servers in favor of different servers run by a different dev team.

18:02 Monday 05 June 2017 JST

In any case, I wish them the supa best and hope everything goes smoothly.

state of my life address

18:03 Monday 05 June 2017 JST

1. I met Caroline, who seems to be a soul I've met in previous lifetime(s)
2. Two men might join Tokyo men's circle, which would put us up to 5 (cause it seems 2/3 men have stopped coming)
3. A woman is interested in joining Tokyo co-gender circle. That will put us up to 7 if all 6 people come next time.
4. Tokyo Men's Circle meetings are on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month.
5. Tokyo Co-gender Circle meets on 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month.
6. I am the contact person for both
7. We have had two (2) co-gender group meetings so far.
8. The short term plan is to keep going and keep inviting new people into the circles
9. Medium term goal is to find enough people interested in learning how to do facilitation that it makes sense for us to have a facilitation trainer come in and teach for a weekend.
10. Long term goal is to have women leaders lead the co-gender circle as a women's circle
11. Vision is to reduce the number of suicides in Japan by giving people a safe place to talk about their feelings.
12. I'm on the local train now headed home from CB
13. We are planning to switch their servers over to new servers tomorrow. Hopefully it will go smoothly.
14. I plan to do final testing tonight; I need to compare a buncha URIs on each server to make sure the content is exactly the same (JSON).
15. Yay(?)
16. Before the great server-swap, I plan to meet Caroline for a private session. I have kinda been thinking of questions but have not written them down yet.
17. * How can I act more loving toward Lin?
18. * Am I on track with current diet or should I be even more careful than recently?
19. * What did you mean when you said I was healthy?
20. * How can I align my heart with income?
21. * how much time should I spend on Marble Track 3?
22. * What else are you inspired to tell me?
23. I am currently level 24 in Pokemon Go. I plan to get to Level 25 so I can zoom through a bunch of Evolutions while I have a Special Egg or whatever.
24. I have not touched iOS apps with Tariq for a while; they are well overdue for updates.
25. I have been working on Marble Track 3 each Tuesday, though I probably will *not* work on it tomorrow. I am making a choice to meet with Caroline and then do the server upgrade with CB, which will probably eat up all my time before I-group. Boo hoo to a degree, but I really think I should have had the upgrades done by now, had shit not gone awry.
26. Oh, so anyway, MT3 so far has zero (0) photos taken for the stop animation portion. But I did buy a nice camera.. ohhhh that is what I can do. Between CB and Tokyo Men's Circle tomorrow, I plan to go buy a tripod for the camera.
27. I bought mypowercircle.org and authenticcircles.org about 10 days ago, but have not put anything on them. I will probably end up using tokyo.mypowercircle.org and let the other domain go bye-bye. Thanks to Paola for (correctly) suggesting that a real domain is better than a Facebook Group. More legit, more exandable, more reassuring, more work, more fun.
28. I have been sort-kinda steady-state low-key studying Japanese, taking up to three (3) lessons per week. but during server upgrade madness, I had not been doing homework. I did a teeny bit of homework before recent lesson with Fumiko.
29. 庭にワニは鶏を食べた。Why has no one offered me this variant? I just made it up after hearing some other kids practice the conventional version.