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Park with Lin

3:57pm JST Sunday 17 April 2011 (day 14998)

Great fun day in the park today near Lin's house! I was super impressed with how she got over her fear of climbing on the equipment. At first she was like, "eeep!" and a few times said she couldn't do it, but she did, and climbed up and over a metal structure and slid down the poles on the other side. The first time was her idea to slide down the pole, which synchronized with my thought that it would be a good next challenge. I didn't suggest it, but asked that she choose the next challenge. Wow! Same idea! So I modeled how to slide down, and she did it.

I encouraged her to do it again immediately, and she was much faster. I raced her up and over the thing, beating her time by an order of magnitude or so. (It took me 6 seconds; I jumped down the other side instead of sliding down the pole.)

We climbed over the other toys, sharing the equipment with some other kids who sometimes looked at me like, "wtf," and sometimes like, "wow!" I'm glad none of them got hurt doing things past their abilities, and I'm sure they did more than they might have had I not been doing crazy stuff already.

We swang on the swings and at one point had three pairs of people on three swings, with one person standing and the other sitting on the swing. And all of our oscillations were synchronized! Fortunately the equipment was hella sturdy and didn't even consider moving due to our combined swingliness.

We were in the park about 2.5 hours or so, some of which was just talking on top of the cubey bar thing; what are those called?

Proposal

10:52pm JST Sunday 17 April 2011 (day 14998)

I've officially, though a bit informally, proposed to Lin. Just about 30 minutes ago while parked near Yokohama. I hadn't really planned it out, but the opportunity presented itself, and I got over my fears.

"You are a really hard worker," I assured her. "I play really hard; I draw mazes; I play games on my iPhone; I'm really smart with computers, and I can program, and do massage and reiki, but I don't always work hard, though I'm working to expand my life and ways of making money and enjoyment.

"It's possible that we'll be at this level from now on; are you okay with that?"

"yes."

"Will you marry me?"

"Yes. are you asking now?"

"yes. I just wanted to make sure you know what you might be getting."

a 3D mazey thing

11:09pm JST Sunday 17 April 2011 (day 14998)

Yesterday I drew via Gimp a pattern that can be formed into a cube. Today I drew a noodle path on it with a start and end, but no dead-ends except for those at the very top and bottom of the 2D version of the pattern. The style is kinda crappy lines are a bit sloppy, and the upload didn't work quite correctly, and I have a couple weeks to clean it up before its planned date of publication, but I will start work tomorrow so I hope I can keep drawing a maze a week!!! permalink