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Dream fireman

10:46am JST Thursday 5 October 2006 (day 13343)

Responding to a distress call, I pushed the fire desk over to the situation and opened up the top to get the ladder out, used the key to drive the ladder, but I hadn't pushed the desk closely enough to the building to reach it. The ladder, fully extended, was going stragiht up into the air and would be about 20 feet from where the people could reach it to get down. So I pushed the desk closer to where they were but people put their jackets and coats on it before I had a chance to extend the ladder again, so I was moving people's jackets off the desk when I woke up.

Google.com

12:04pm JST Thursday 5 October 2006 (day 13343)

Google has been running slowly for me. Because I haven't seen news for it on any websites, I imagine it's something in my configuration that I've got that's messing it up. Perhaps the FF extension that tweaks google results.

Umbrella trick

1:08pm JST Thursday 5 October 2006 (day 13343)

I can semi-consistently do a balancing trick with my umbrella. Balancing is no problem; I can walk around while balancing a tall thin object all day (and by all day I mean for minutes at a time). I can even swing the umbrella up from hanging (by its handle) to balanced on my finger. That's not the trick.

The cooler thing is to swing the umbrella from hanging by its handle, up and release and then catch the umbrella on its point (so the umbrella is pointing down). That's the trick I've been practicing on misty days, when it's not actually raining but most other people carry umbrellas upright in the expanded configuration.

Workinest

1:53pm JST Thursday 5 October 2006 (day 13343)

Killa day at work planned for today: 8 hours with only a 20 minute break.

Okay, so it's a killer day for me compared to what I'm used to; I send blessings to those who are in less favorable work conditions every day.

10:13pm JST Thursday 5 October 2006 (day 13343)

I survived the day, and even had some cool lessons. One woman who I'd never met before asked me about Francois. One of her friends had taken my lesson and met Francois, who apparently made a lasting impression.

My last two students were computer-aware. The very last has a website, videx.jp, for which he did most of the coding, including the load balancing behind the scenes. I was well-impressed with his tales of coding.

The second to last would like to have a website, but said he didn't know HTML. I was like, "that's hardly a reason to not have a website, but if you want to know HTML, visit htmlgoodies.com, which is where I learned HTML," back in the day before it was all commercialized beyond recognition.

One student got a smiley on the notes I wrote about her (so I can know, at minimum, that I enjoyed our class last time and should perhaps look forward to the next one).