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Moved

4:38pm JST Friday 26 September 2008 (day 14065)

We've officially moved. Today we are working from our new location away from Findanet, the company with whom we are no longer associated.

Testing the internet, I visited imgserve.net, and clicked on random image. The first three times, I got images of women, some of whom were nekkid.

I'm going to try again until I get tired or a non-erotic-woman image.

Finally. Some dogs. That was six in a row... sorta guess that's what people like to upload. I wonder who these people are.. hmmmmm.

One more click just to make sure.

Okay, only 1 in a row that time.

Okay, I'm done. Probably.

11:54pm JST

I didn't get any coding done at work, but I did get some ice cream. Glico brought eight (8) ice cream cones this week. After begging and begging them for ice cream, and getting none or almost none for months, this day they finally delivered. The day we left.

But I still have the key so perhaps I'll rock in there this weekend and chow some ice cream.

Post ATE meditation class

11:42pm JST Friday 26 September 2008 (day 14065)

Today was the first (of four) Post ATE (*) meditation class for the ATE we did a couple months ago. Not sure why it took so long to get the class started, but glad it finally did.

(*) Awakening The third Eye

I fell asleep like crazy during the first meditation, and then was much more awake during the second one. Basically when Helma said something like, "try to sense an uplifting energy," or some such, and for the first time, I felt something like an uplifting energy.

Hmmm. So that was good.

kumi

11:57pm JST Friday 26 September 2008 (day 14096)

Also good: Kumi was in the ATE, and in this class as well. She lives on my line (or vice versa) near Nakameguro. Tonight we visited an Italian restaurant (that Jimmy da Magnet and I visited one time) and chowed pizza over life overview conversations. She asked me "why Japan?" and I asked for her similar story when I finished.

She told me about seeing a total solar eclipse in Australia (and was so impressed that she went to AFrica (Zambia) for the next one). Told me about getting a new lease on life after being in the hospital, and now searching for some meaning within via meditation.

Turns out she's my senior by 31 days.

She told me about being afraid to hike around South America because she heard it was too dangerous. So then she realized she had to do the impossible, and she did the trip. Awesome. Six weeks of awesomeness.

She asked me what my fear was, and I told her basically initiating conversation with people. she listened intently, and then gave a great suggestion that she heard from someone who heard from someone else. Just say, "interesting weather, isn't it?"

Perfect. So then I told her my next fear which is to continue the conversation, in terms of promoting myself or my ideas or whateva. She suggested (basically) that there may be a part of me that rejects others, and so I'm assuming others will reject me. Hmmmm yes, in fact, I know of a perfect example of that. I snubbed a co-worker when he saw me on campus at University of Houston. This was over 10 years ago, but I've still got a lot of shame about it. He was like, "Hey Rob!" and I turned around, saw who it was, and was all, "aw, it's just Bang," and didn't even realize what an insult that was until he confronted me later at work.

Damn. And I don't remember ever really apologizing to him, and I obviously haven't cleared it from my system because the story is sill with me after over 1/4 of my life so far.

Kumi suggested I write him a letter.