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great support from david on a7 card for walk to niigata

Special thanks to Jimmy for the original design and David for tweaking it to get all the language to fit, plus tweaking the route to match my actual route. And special thanks to Kazu for fixing the Japanese translation today!

need to start booking accommodation rnc

Feeling super gratitude and relief to have a donor offer to pay $100 per day to cover accommodation for my walk. If I stay in hotels that are usually up to 8,000 yen per night that should cover it overall. There's a couple places at the hotels are well beyond that price but the average should work out okay.

My goal this week is to book one week worth of accommodation, so in addition to the single night I've booked so far I will then have eight nights of 21 booked.

The walk is 23 days therefore 22 nights, the first night of which is going to be at my own house so that's booked already.

state of my life address

1. I plan to walk to Niigata from Yokohama over 23 days starting April

16th.

1. Support has been flowing in, from money, to card design, to

translation work, to all my hotels being paid by anonymous donor.

1. I emailed aaronpk to see if he will help me tweak Micropub. If he

does not reply by Friday, I will probably look on IRC.

1. We have mice in our house. A guy cut holes in the ceiling so they

can put sticky paper down to catch the rats. I am sad they will likely die and wish Lin and her mom would agree to other ways (ignore them / use live traps)

1. I forgot my socks when leaving for JB today so I bought socks on

the way from Kawasaki station.

1. I broadcast 75 minutes' worth of livestream on RPAN today in two

segments, separated by my 7:30am meeting (Design Your Day)

1. The second broadcast featured me walking around the back side of

Yomiuriland, back near Crazy Hyuuuuu Stonnnnn and the bunjee jump. I was able to get all the way back to the front of the park before needing to hang up due to low battery.

1. With 4% battery, I wrote a couple of journal entries with Quill and

Micropub, but I did not publish them.

1. Today was the first day in a year without Aoi or Ayaka in the

lessons.

1. Today I taught three boys (one of whom is rowdy) in first lesson, then taught

4 girls and 2 boys (one of whom was rowdy) in the secnnd lesson.

1. I look forward to not doing the lessons, but have not put much

energy to not doing them.

1. I think I will talk to Missy about helping promote Weekly

Alignments and maybe the morning sessions and/or Bold Life Brotherhood.

1. Two nights ago, at 3:30am, Jennie got into a fight with a cat

outside our window. We went out to break it up and kept her inside the rest of the night and last night. I wish I could explain to her that she could stay outside if she stays quiet.

1. Lin and I are going camping in a couple days with a mutual friend

who plans to bring BBQ meat. Should be a fun time. Oh I hope I remember to bring Francois.

1. Lin and I have been doing quite well recently, seemingly affected

by my being more loving: telling bedtime stories, offering verbal appreciations.

1. It takes time though, so that is something I think about.
2. Two people have let me know they could not donate to my

GoGetFunding campaign because of some "Liability Shift" problem declining the cards. Very annoying to not know how to fix it.

1. Fifteen people attended the walking meditation this past

Saturday. Wow!!

1. Before the walking meditation, I got on mic and two cameras in

Shibuya talking a bit about my trip. Completely impromptu and great synchronicity.

1. I have not created my event for Weekly Alignments for tomorrow. I

hope I do it tonight.

1. I just typed all the above in Noborito waiting area next to Nambu

Line. How going to head the rest of the way home.

1. Oh that reminds me, I have begun retiring my Macbook Pro 2012.

Now using my System76 Lemur 2020 as my full time machine. Much lighter (and smaller and plasticker) and Linuxer (Pop!_OS)

1. Home now features two nicely made holes in our downstairs

ceilings.

walked around yomiuriland broadcast and battery test rnc

Getting back into walking after the chili winter I walked near the local amusement park and actually did a live stream on Reddit to test the battery on my phone I was able to livestream for 1 hour and 40 minutes I think 🤔

That was 30 minutes for the first live stream 25 minutes for a zoom meeting and then 45 minutes for the next Reddit live stream.

I'm posting this with quill and have 4% battery on my phone at this point it's 8:54 a.m. right now and I'm walking back home for me at 10:00 a.m.

One of the next tests I'll do is to have fully charged phone and fully charged portable battery to see how long we can live stream under those circumstances.

In tests I've seen the battery charge the phone fully twice plus some left over but I've never done it all in one day so that'll be interesting. Also interesting to know how quickly that battery itself can be recharged.