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akihabara lesson

20:43 Thursday 18 April 2019 JST

I had some time before the lesson in Akihabara and ended up buying some squishy toys that were even cooler than the one I bought late last year. These have balls inside them about the size of frog eggs, and the outer balls stretch about as much as a frog's lower mouth. The inner balls squirt out between fingers and make an awfully squirty sound that is somewhat between stepping in mud and a cartoon splat.

Best lesson in a long time.

Atsuko read that the pandaball would expand if placed in water. We tried it, but it turned out that the balls inside the pandaball would expand if placed in water. We tried that instead, and they did not grow as much as I hoped.

We then removed the rest of the balls so we could count them (Mayumi's idea). I guessed there would be 200. Mayumi guessed 150. Zumi guessed 100. Atsuko guessed 80.

It turned out there were 117 balls inside; Zumi won! She also was closest regarding the question "guess how big they will get?"

Mayumi brought chocorooms and chokoboos (I just made that name up) but I chose not to eat the packs she gave me because I have been fasting today since 2pm. Yeah I know it is not long, but by tomorrow morning it will be longer than I usually wait..

turns out i am not eligible for aws free tier

20:26 Thursday 18 April 2019 JST

It turns out I am not eligible for AWS free tier.. Thank goodness for their billing alarms. It went off at $3 and I was like whhaaa??

It turns out free tier is only for new customers less than a year old. I have had my account for ages.. Why would their interface say free tier next to anything while I am logged in?????

work at scc

20:34 Thursday 18 April 2019 JST

Back at SCC today with four student for 30 minutes each. Hitomi came in for Lily, who could not come.

I bought Cast Arrows, a new Hanayama puzzle because I could not solve it in 20 minutes. (not that I can solve most of them in 20 minutes, but this one looked like I could solve it and then I was like "woah that's not going to work???" because one piece was jjuustt slightly too big to fit through a gap. Dang, I thought they were all the same size.