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Baby dream

9:15am JST Thursday 08 December 2005

During my shower I remembered a dream

Wende and I were hanging out and decided to get back together and actually have a baby. I was psyching myself up for it mentally, then realized that was really impossible, and I should just go with the flow. I started to tell her something current instead of worrying about the future, and showed her how my new lego robot walked. It had six legs and I was showing her how it alternately moved two legs on one side and one leg on the other at a time and moved forward.

Due to dream chaos (*), I couldn't show her because the legs kept moving back to their original starting points, whether I tried to draw them or use my hand to represent them.

(* dream chaos is a term I just made up to describe things that change 'magically' in dreams, but could not change in reality (at least very unlikely))

Do today

8:43am JST Thursday 08 December 2005

1. * take a shower

2. * become a chower

3. * write to Tomoko

4. * Write 2 actual days in my document (instead of counting days I can skip)
   * 1 (can't get Brazilian visa), * 2 (arrival at Balata in Nablus)

5. clean up stuff for party tonight

   1. * take out trash

   2. * do dishes

   3. * my stuff

   4. * generally straightenify living room

   5. * vacuum

6. Go through pb docs and begin scheduling things to do

7. tell WQ mail.com got bounced as well

8. rob_update_mailer.pl:

   1. continue coding

   2. finish coding

   3. migrate names to new mySql table

   4. make note of those who said yes

9. begin using cgi-bin instead of cgi-local

Today

11:25am JST Thursday 08 December 2005

Gotten a great start on things today. The living room is a rather large neatly stacked mess. I've designated several things to be given away, including a NYPD T-shirt (given to me by Hitomi) because I think of Airplane Day when I see NYPD T-shirts (and in my informal poll, 100% of the respondent said "9/11" when I asked him what he thought of NYPD doing when he saw the shirt) and I don't care to encourage the belief that Airplane Day was such a huger tragedy on the scale of things.

Plus, it's gotten enough coverage already.

And I have plenty of other T-shirts.

party

11:45pm JST Thursday 08 December 2005

Tonight we had a holiday feast slash bible study here at Jesse's. Kazue and I helped Jesse cook. I chopped and she stirred. Then I mixed and she stirred. Celery, hamburger, mashed potatoes, pasta sauce. Chicken and corn plus gravy... quite a feast.

I slept for a decent part of the bible study part. Talking about how different people have come together by coming to Christ. The example on the video was the Jews and Gentiles, all coming together worshipping Christ. Something like that.

The dude was talking about Jews so much that I wondered if those at the bible study believed themselves to be Jewish. I don't think so, considering we were wondering when Hanukkah started.

What I did figure out is why I enjoyed cooking with Kazue. She has the most perfectly cutest nose and high cheekbones in the planet. And she was quite outgoing and other good things. She needed a blanket to sit crosslegged wearing a skirt, so I zipped to get the quilt janette made for me for her.

Didn't talk to her alllll that much, but may see her on Monday at Michael's b-day party.

At the end of the evening, Jesse and Michael were trying to convince her the importance of choosing Christianity over Buddhist rituals that her family expects her to perform.

I mentally shook my head a lot.

At one point I offered, "it's easy; just get baptised after your parents die!"

She goes, "what??"

Jesse was like, "he's not Christian."

I go, "yeah, I'll fill your head with all sorts of things these guys don't want you to hear. But it's your choice."

zzz Christ

4:37am JST Friday 09 December 2005

Jesse and I just spent about 45 minutes discussing slash defending our religious beliefs. I said I was unimpressed with "the bible has no inconsistencies," because people have been poring over the bible for hundreds of years. If the same number of people pored over something else for as long, it would be pretty free of errors. Open Source code proves that. And it's only been around for 30 years, not thousands.

But he did say one thing that piqued my curiosity: mass numbers of people converted to Christianity after Jesus was resurrected from the tomb. If that's true, it says something interesting.

I can't imagine myself ever trying to convince someone the bible is true.