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im on a boat

14:34 Sunday 13 September 2015 JST

We're headed back to Tokyo from 式根島 (shikinejima) on a ferry that reminds me of Topaz in that it's a boat with lots of passengers, all of whom are on a boat.

Okay, a ship.

I got a handkerchief branded with the island name for Lin, and a wooden puzzle for Fred.

I went to the island for two days with the contact group, featuring four members, including the organizer, Mark.

I kinda wish I hadn't come without Lin because the island was really nice, so I'm definitely making plans to bring her to this island or a similar one.

I had some good times on the island despite having to stick with the group (which half the time consisted of Mark, because we were the only ones who came on Friday). I acted like a little shit when he peer pressured me to not climb on rocks because he felt a sense of responsibility for the members of the group. He was like, "let's go back to the blah blah blah because I want to check out that area," whereas I did not want to check out any other area. So I was like "fine, fuck," and I climbed directly up the hill instead of using the sidewalk for normal people and I beat him to the top by about a minute.

Ah, make that 15 minutes because he didn't notice I had ascended ages before he did, and he went back down to the neck-breaking rock area, yelling my name to see if I had fucking fallen into the water. Fuck so my sullen behaviour caused him to waste 10 minutes looking for me. Why the fuck would I fall down the hill after I agreed to go back?

God I'm terrible.

So we went to the next place, near some hot srpings, and he goes, "oh what's over there?" while pointing to a concrete pier. I was like, "bah who cares; it's man made." and he goes, "I thought you were a man of adventure!" So I was like fine fuckit and started walking to it and noticed there was water pouring from between some kind of walk way.

Hmm okay it looks interesting so we kept going, and then I realized it was just water spilling over the pier on occasion due to wave action.

Thinking it would be neat to go to the end and see the waves blah blah blah ...

... then the next wave crested to the top by about 10 cm! It was a bit scary, but not enough to send me away, but then I suddenly was like, "oh shiz" as the next wave knocked me over a little bit... and then the next wave had me sliding across the pier, hoping I'd be able to stop myself like Neo on top of the tower.

oh I just realized I wrote all this already. sorry.

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We went to the top of a hill the first night but didn't see shit. I got into a half-asleep state and relayed information I received in dream state, and later Mark was all yeah I'm not going to make a report about this night unless we get something interesting.

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The second night it was me, Mark, Lance, and Sumiyaki on the same hill, but a bit lower (top of the paved area, but not to the point where Mark and I had gone the previous night.

I had fallen asleep by this point, but Mark saw a ship "power up" and was like, "wow!" I woke up, and sure enough, I saw it too.

Lance, an aviation engineer said it was unlike any plane he had ever seen before. I could see basically a single light would turn on and then off, as if via rheostat. It didn't flash, and it wasn't on a regular schedule. It seemed to move across about 5 degrees of sky during the time that I could see its power ups. The whole "show" lasted about 3 minutes, and then they saw maybe 3 different shooting stars.

It was pretty neat, but I still think I've attended more than half of the events I'll attend with this group.

nearly home

18:07 Sunday 13 September 2015 JST

On Keihin Tohoku line now approaching Oimachi. Will arrive in Kawasaki in about 12 minutes, at which point I'll go to Wired Cafe to drink up some addictive internet, on which I plan to email Lin that I'm back, and look for a guy to fix my phone. I'm sure it can be fixed; just the chargin' parts are borked.

And maybe I'll try to find a toot for integrating Soomla into a Unity app. They seem to have all the right parts, but not yet so flush on examples.

phone wont charge

16:19 Sunday 13 September 2015 JST

I'm optimistic that I can get it repaired, but my iPhone will no longer accept a charge after it got soaked.

As promised, I shan't buy another iPhone, and now I may be a bit more specific: I may buy a waterproof phone if I can't get this one repaired.