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OM

4:57pm JST Sunday 24 October 2004

Work was pretty okay today. Ended up with more quintarks than we had when we started. I took a couple of naps, including one long enough to produce drool.

I decided to invite Mikiko to Cosmoworld near Sakuragicho station. It's pretty close to Yokohama, so maybe it's convenient for her to visit. Maybe she would even enjoy going.

But I didn't ask her today. She's always busy at work. I may have to just give her a note. Due to the language barrier and how busy she is, I can't do any quick inviting.

Site

9:05pm JST Sunday 24 October 2004

Ikumi helped me with my website tonight. She's good at knowing about user interface design and helped shaped my ideas about the interface for my site. She doesn't know a lot about backend perl stuff, but she acted as a good sounding board for that.

She apologized for not having been much help, but I think she was more help that she seemed to think.

monopoly

4:26pm JST Monday 25 October 2004

Katrina and I played Monopoly ((Sydney), Australia version) last night. She told me her story of coming to Japan, which, like mine, included a breakup with marriage material lover. In her case, he was a guy from Germany.

The crazy thing is she knows a woman named Wendy (sp) who lives (lived?) in San Francisco. But her Wendy is of Chinese descent.

I was the thimble and banker, and she was the horse and real estate agent. She wanted to use a crazy rule like when mortgaging property, they go back into the for sale pile. Woah!

I just thought of a funny idea: the real estate agent can get 10% commission on every sale, but has to lose a turn to get it.

We pretty much zoomed through the game, and chatted a little bit, but when the game got going, more attention was paid to the game than to talking. She was going to beat me cause she had Boardwalk and Park Place equivalents with 2 houses on each, and I had only the set of properties just past jail (but with hotels on them). I negotiated and got the third of the green properties for $1500 plus giving her the third light blue property, which blew all my cash at that moment, but I lucked out a few rounds by missing her Boardwalk properties on my way past GO and put three houses each on the greens. I lucked out again when she hit one of them and bankrupt. She wanted to quit anyway, so she wasn't too upset.