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Can I make smugmug work

11:12am JST Thursday 11 October 2007 (day 13714)

I've been considering the possible ways to make smugmug work...

I wanted this type of structure:

Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Shibuya -> funny outfits -> oct 10
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Shibuya -> funny outfits -> nov 3
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Futakotamagawa -> frisbee october 15
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Futakotamagawa -> frisbee october 22
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Kawasaki -> item date1
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Mt Fuji -> date1
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> Mt Fuji -> date2
Home -> Tokyo -> 2007-> FujiQHighland -> date1               

But arguably, "Around Town" and "Day Trips" imply "Home," and Shibuya/etc imply Tokyo, and I can merge the dates with the album name..

Around Town -> Shibuya -> funny outfits 2007	      
Around Town -> Shibuya -> funny outfits 2008	      
Around Town -> Futakotamagawa -> frisbee 2007 october 15 
Around Town -> Futakotamagawa -> frisbee 2007 october 22 
Around Town -> Kawasaki -> item date1		      
Day Trips -> Mt Fuji -> date1		      
Day Trips -> Mt Fuji -> date2		      
Day Trips -> FujiQHighland -> date1
Travel -> United States -> 2007 

free hugs for 75 minutes

9:21pm JST Thursday 11 October 2007 (day 13714)

Tonight I offered free hugs from 8pm to 9:15pm. Tetsuya showed up at 8:30pm, for which I was glad because I hadn't seen him since he gave me one of his FREE HUGS signs. He asked that I send him an email before I go out each time.. not sure why - maybe to join me, or just get a sense of what kind of usage his sign gets.

Tonight featured zero hugs for the first 15 minutes, and then three in quick succession, the thirf of which lasted for a full 30 seconds. I barely even saw her face, but she just said "thank you," and walked away.

A few minutes later, six hugs in quick succession, including a small girl who nearly leaped onto my arm, and a group of four girls who drew straws to see who had to hug me, and then asked why/where/how-long questions.

Then a man named Daniel from New York gave me his card; he's apparently closely related to GRIA Cultural Publications. He was dared to hug me by his companion who wouldn't hug me, but was questioned, "why not?" etc in Japanese by a man named Asan (sp (no card)) who came up subsequently and hugged both me and Daniel.

Then a few minutes later two little little kids (thigh high!) gave me little little kid hugs (no giving, just placement to receive hugs) at the encouragement of their older peer (sister?) who was about 8 years old.

After that was a blur of people *not* offering hugs, punctuated with individual hugs from people out of nowhere, except for one who specified she's visiting from Hong Kong. Good times. Good times.

pasmo finders weepers

11:06pm JST Thursday 11 October 2007 (day 13714)

Well, I'm not actually weeping, but I've been questioning appropriate behavior since I found an anonymous PasMo in Family Mart this morning. I forgot about it during work and free hugs, but then remembered just before I got on the Toyoko Line in Shibuya. I checked the value on the card: 9500 yen or there about.

I asked the train booth guy how I could recover "my" card if I lost it, and he said it's impossible, so don't lose it.

And that could be my answer, but.... my brain finds it quite conceivable that the loser would remember where s/he left the card, and go back to Family Mart looking for it.

So I've been wondering if I should take it back, how I can get credit for it if I do, why I want recognition for returning it, should I just accept it as manna from heaven, etc etc.

7:01pm JST Friday 12 October 2007 (day 13715)

For the record, I've decided to keep the card without any attempts to return it to the location I found it. This was decided by a 50% choice between ODD or EVEN on the current minute that I happened to decide that was a good way to decide. ODD . 12:13am done.