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Dream Miki's family

6:23am JST Tuesday 11 November 2008 (day 14111)

In a vehicle on a highway, sitting along the sides of the carriage. No one had to drive. I found out that the amazing tour we had of the city via ship yesterday was arranged by the mom of the family, so I thanked her profusely, and mentioned to her husband that he was lucky.

I was showing off my life-sized marble track to the group, and one guy crawled in to see it in more detail. I had parts of i covered with cloth for the party, so he couldn't see where to step. He stood on a part that was only thin wood, and it cracked as I told him as he fell through. I said not to worry about it; there were no marble track bits on that part of the track. The structure was basically made of three wooden pallets as in a grocery store, all connected in a vertical stack, like shelves.

Miki offered me another slice of pizza. Her sister was there and offered me some chocolate topping. I took the chocolate topping with my fingers and tried to eat it. Miki was a bit shocked, "can you do that???" but i couldn't answer as I was eating. I had a slight spill and got chocolate on my face. I laughingly answered her, "therefore, no. I can't do it." She giggled and I smeared a bit of chocolate on her face and she laughed.

So great to see Miki so happy.

Today

8:39pm JST Tuesday 11 November 2008 (day 14111)

Ummmmm

Malek stayed up all night programming on something related to our imminent project (for which I joined the company to code). Though this didn't affect me, I note with some interest that I felt slightly more productive near the end of my day today than near the beginning. Perhaps it takes our brains that long to warm up to coding.

Andrew and I chowed at ¤¹¤­Å¹ (I think that's the kanji) and then went to ¥É¥ó¥­¥Û¡¼¥Æ to look for pipe cleaners. They didn't have 'em, but they did have cokes and ice cream. Good brain food.

Saw a hemp clothing / Reggae music / smoking accessory shop so I stepped in there. They had pipe cleaners for 210 yen for a pack. Not only that, but the fragrance in the store was quite nice. Not only that, the smile on the clerk was stellar. I practically wanted to get her digits just to have her smile to me.

I told Andrew about her, and he goes, "and she was thinking, 'I know what you're going to do with those pipe cleaners.' ... No, no you don't."

With these pipe cleaners, I plan to fashion little worker-people to put together my marble track in a stop-action time-lapse video. The project may be too big (long) for me to do (well) by myself, but I plan to start. Just as soon as I have some free time.

Dude asked me today if I could help him put together a website for a business idea he has.

Kevin asked me (again) yesterday if I could help him put together a website for his business.

In both cases, they are offering to pay. Dude wants to take a bit of time, and Kevin would like to get his done within 3 weeks so he can give the URL to peeps he meets in Italy.

Kevin's should be technically easier, but Dude knows a lot about how to build websites so he knows what information he needs, and he's already got a web host.

Met Jesse for a burrito-kebab from Ayse, my new favorite restaurant in Shibuya. I asked him if he brought his hackey sack so we could play like old times. We joked about playing outside in the crowd, which would be really funny considering how much fun we have while playing so obnoxiously badly.

He got a free burrito-kebab with his point card, so we split the cost for the other. 300 yen each.

Chattin' chewed upstairs, talking about his family, Ami's departed mom, internet and the relative value of expensive hardware.

Walked him back toward Gaba where he bought me some nothing-juice (*) and took a picture of me with ZARA.

But the best news was yet to come: Jesse has made over 1000 x 0 yen for 1000+ tickets ordered through his ticket reservation system. I'm glad it's working so well for him.

(*) (In Japanese, ¤Ê¤·, the pronunciation of the word for "pear," is the same pronunciation as the word for "nothing.")

Went back to work and got some good coding done for an hour.