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beads for sale

19:30 Friday 18 August 2017 JST

This is the first time I have worked with glass. Basically melted the end of a glass rod and tacked some colors onto it after the sensei wrapped it onto some sort of ceramic to which the glass apparently won't adhere.

Lin took pictures during the process and then when I finished was like お疲れ様です。 and I was like まだまだ and asked the sensei if I could make another. She was like, "of course" and Lin was like "bye".

For the second one, I asked if I could use two colors within one bead. She was like .... and I was like pleaseee and she agreed 頑張ります。 Yay!

When rolling it onto the ceramic stick, she did a few different layers, so it will look kinda like a candy cane. Yay!

Hmm I wonder if I should do one more with opaque glass and clear glass. Hmm I think I will. But she is only here tonight so I have to do it now.

20:52 Friday 18 August 2017 JST

Yayyyy

After a woman made her own bead, she and her, um, friend watched me attempt my idea of clear glass surrounding blue glass with yellow stripes in between both.

Sensei fixed it after I gooped it all up, but I hope it works out nicely.

23:15 Friday 18 August 2017 JST

They are alright.

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headed to nagano

07:54 Friday 18 August 2017 JST

We are leaving at 10:30, after my virtual I-group meeting.

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nagano view hotel

15:27 Friday 18 August 2017 JST

I am not sure of the hotel name (yet?) but there is some kinda glass bead making thing downstairs starting at 4pm so I am tooootally going to be down there for that. Hopefully there will not be a long line. (There are only 4 desks so I kinda guess I will have to wait.)

They offer free hard apple cider from 3pm to 5pm. I had a bit and Francois had some according to a photo I took.

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pics from mas third trip to japan

2017-08-18

(written 00:09 Friday 06 October 2017 JST)

2017 08 12 bridge construction 2017 08 12 francois on a boat 2017 08 12 francois on a paddle boat 2017 08 12 rob francois ma lin on a boat 2017 08 13 blue coral 2017 08 13 otterzzzzz 2017 08 13 ping pong goldfish 2017 08 18 francois drinks cider 2017 08 18 mirror up there

With GG

2017 08 10 gg 1 2017 08 10 gg 2 2017 08 17 francois rabby gg1 2017 08 17 francois rabby gg 2 2017 08 17 rob ma francois rabby

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recently

08:36 Friday 18 August 2017 JST

  1. Ma is in town!
  2. We are going to Nagano today
  3. ~~Still don't feel completely resolved regarding Renee and Gunma~~

20:43 Saturday 19 August 2017 JST

  1. Lin, Ma, and I just got home from Nagano
  2. it's raining harder than it does during the misnamed/mistimed "rainy

season" of the past couple of years.

  1. I recently created https://tokyo.mypowercircle.org/ to be the MKP website for Tokyo / Japan.
  2. Takeshi has talked about starting a Japanese-language men's group (on Saturdays)
  3. I need to sort out different languages for the site (currently compiled by Hugo)
  4. mypowercircle.org is currently only in English. I do not know what Japanese content I can add while testing, but I think Takeshi will be the first to write Japanese for the site.
  5. I will email him now.
  6. Have recently re-started messing with XCode and trying to get our apps to work in latest iOS ~~garbage~~ version
  7. Hugo keeps saying too many open files and the solutions here don't help https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/168
  8. Yay I got it working with `hugo server --watch=false`
  9. We have one cat (Jennie) and no other animals nor kids
  10. We have lots of plants though. I basically just have Alex and his progeny
  11. One of Alex's leaves seems to be taking root near the corner of the park at the top of the steps
  12. The new Odakyu Line in Noborito had rails but recently *removed them again!!*
  13. We talk to Ma about once a week
  14. We talk to dad less frequently; he always seems to be busy
  15. We may go see Lin's dad this year
  16. I have the AB hard drive to try to get old data off the drive
  17. I am sure the data does not exist, but gosh if it does that would be great
  18. At this point, Marble Track 3 movie is in two parts, totaling like 1 minute 50 seconds https://new.robnugen.com/journal/2017/08/16/mt3-playlist-mt3-movie-so-far/
  19. The playlist in the link above may get more / longer videos.
  20. https://mt3.robnugen.com should show the latest video or news
  21. I plan to work on MT3 a bit tomorrow.
  22. Ma is leaving on Tuesday. It has been such a quick visit!
  23. I just emailed Takeshi and note that I am 25 messages behind inbox 0 (not counting 173 starred messages
  24. bah
  25. About to try first attempt at Japanese on mypowercircle site via https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/
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