Entries this day: customer-service-win state-of-my-life-address things-to-do-soon

customer service win

15:46 Wednesday 04 February 2015 JST

Last night I realized I must have left my computer power supply in Ebisu.

Today I went to Yodobashi Camera and specified I wanted a power supply for this computer (which they had on display). Upon arrival at home I discovered the power supply they gave me was not the power supply I requested.

I immediately blamed the sales guy mother fucker frackin smackin waste my time fricken asshole pendejo piece of s

you know; it's really not his fault. Let's blame Apple for changing power supply interface and not making it particularly easy to know which power supply to buy for what computer. They're both 85 watts. Why not give them obvious model numbers or something?

Back to YC and was like, [yeah so I requested the power supply for this computer and got the wrong power supply] maybe something like, このパサコンのパワースップライを書きたかったけど、 これは違う。

It wasn't the same guy with whom I had transacted before, so he was like [just a moment] and got the manager.

Manager was like, [yeah, but you opened it.]

I expected this. For some reason it's really hard to return opened electronics in Japan.

I was like, [yeah; I didn't know it was wrong until then.]

Anyway, a total of three times I waited, and twice he was like, "yeah but you opened it."

I was trying to figure out how to say "how you gonna say that I should know if it's right when your own sales guy didn't know it was right?" but fortunately it didn't come to that.

I explained that I had specifically requested the power supply for this computer and even counted the contact-point bumps on the inside and the other guy repeated the number (5) agreeing that it was fine.

He finally got the original sales guy and they sorted it out. Yay!

state of my life address

16:32 Wednesday 04 February 2015 JST

1. TL;DR: I'm really happy with my situation right now.

1. I'm working for a few different people/companies, going to

different places each day. Mostly I'm teaching English, but also doing website work for AB and probably do some more website work for a different project, "coming soon"

1. On new moon weekends, I've been attending

Tokyo ET Contact meetups, organized by Mark, and on some other weekends, I've been attending Tokyo Reiki Circle meetups. When there's a conflict, I go with ET group because it's only once a month.

1. Otherwise, I have a lot of free time to fitz around with my

website, chat with Fred online, make art, meditate, and play with the cats.

1. Oh, and free time to do laundry and think about cleaning and cooking!

1. Lin is back in real estate, coming home each night saying she had a

good day. I'm super happy about that!

1. Lin seems to only be able to relax if the house is clean, which I

know, but don't really understand. I'm often like, "yo baby don't worry about it" and sometimes help her clean, but egad it already seems clean enough to me! Plus it's just gonna get dirty again anyway!

1. We have a subscription to Hulu and watch movies on it pretty

regularly; maybe 3 per week.

1. I'm considering moving from Hakyll to Pelican since I'm

too... lazy/disinterested in learning Haskell, and my knight in programming armor has gotten too busy to add the extras to what he made already.

1. I'm still evaluating Pelican, though. Need to make sure I can

make it do the things I want, which I haven't necessarily defined well.

a. pagination
b. calendar
c. Dream CSS

e. categories
f. date based on filename and meta data
g. images
h. Unity apps

d. tags

1. 1% chance I will split my non-art categories from my wiki to static

pages on my site. Actually yeah that's a pretty good idea; the only reason I have art on wiki is so that other people can edit the pages for the particular piece they obtained. So let's say it's a 2% chance = 100% chance I think it's a great idea now * 1/50 ability to prioritize it anytime soon.

1. I think I'll make a category called "ridiculous" or something; it

can hold my R.O.B.O.T. pages and other crap I pooped out some years ago.

1. I've switched robnugen.com to use www.robnugen.com; Travis

explained that having domain names which are substrings of other domain names is a (Javascript?) security hole.

1. I'm going to let airplaneday.com and isfuzzywilltravel.com expire;

I've not don't shit with those domains in years so they're just wasting money. Oh, and pekoneko.com. That was for Hitomi.

1. I want to evaluate my robnugen.com subdomains. Some of them are

shit; some are empty. I will move each one to its own (virtual) server, or wipe it off the proverbial face of the internet.

1. Definitely want to keep the following:

a. wiki.robnugen.com (for my art)
b. art.robnugen.com (shortlinks to my art)
c. www.robnugen.com (blog and shit (hopefully all static))

1. without looking at what exists, I can't think of any others I care about.

1. I was going to be in a drug trial at CPC for the first two weeks of

this month (Feb 2015) but I wasn't selected after passing the initial medical check. I guess it was a lottery-type selection process.

1. Tariq and I have switched to Unity for further app

development. It's become clear that I'm unable to keep up with the iOS updates, plus I'm definitely not able to write for Android, etc, while writing for iOS so we're hoping Unity can help deploy to multiple platforms.

1. So far, I've just done the first roll-a-ball tutorial, and expanded

on that a little bit. I've not even figured out a cool and consistent way to ... oh I know.. there's gotta be a reasonable way to do it with Pelican. I just want to slap the files on my site, optionally with links to source code.

1. I read on Reddit someone suggesting that *all* software will be

open source in the future. I guess it's a nice idea, and I hope it comes to pass, but I dunno. Smert algorithms could keep up with the pace of development without the need for an army of devs + testers.

1. I'm happy to open source any programming projects I write on my

own, but interestingly, I'm not yet willing to open source my art. I'm not sure why, though.

1. Lin and I live in Kawasaki. I've sent four (4) postcards on

postcrossing.com, and received two (2).

1. I've sent a few emails encrypted with PGP (GPG) extension on

Thunderbird. Still haven't quite sorted out how to do all the key (signing) business, but it's definitely interesting stuff.

1. I'm looking forward to some of Andrew Basiago's statements about

the future come to pass.

1. I have taught a few substitute lessons at Toshiba, but don't yet

have a consistent schedule there. They've got some really interesting exhibits, about which I enjoy learning more.

1. We have two cats (Jennie and Ted), but zero dogs or kids. Jennie

and Ted are getting along pretty well, and have been peeing in their designated place for a while. I would love to let them outside, but we agreed upon their adoption that we'd keep them inside, safe from city life.

1. I pretty regularly can "pop" my neck, by tilting my head

backwards. I'm sue that's a symptom of 'text neck', so I've been trying to maintain better posture, but it's hard to do so with my current lifestyle.

1. I don't have a train pass because I don't use the trains enough

times in a month to make it worthwhile.

1. I haven't spoken with my dad in a bit; maybe I'll try to connect

with him soon.

1. Holy shit I just saw a Japanese(?) couple embrace with long hug

and passionate kiss. They hugged for more than like 15 seconds each time, and he held her face and kissed her. So happy for them!

things to do soon

19:26 Wednesday 04 February 2015 JST

1. ~~walk home with Lin~~
2. ~~write to JB list of students' names~~
3. ~~process recent emails~~
4. ~~ask Nate about CB tickets~~
5. ~~make maze for book~~
6. ~~write Fiverr card~~
7. ~~send Fiverr card~~
8. ~~write plans for 18 Feb class~~
9. ~~evaluate Pelican for static site~~
10. ~~submit medical receipts to insurance~~
11. ~~call Soness~~
12. look at AB tickets
13. move all www.robnugen.com content to static site
14. move ridiculous wiki stuff to static site