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great fun lessons in hoso university

13:40 Wednesday 25 November 2015 JST

JB called me this morning just after Lin and I finished meditation. "Hey can you leave right now to teach a lesson?"

I arrived a few minutes late, but the students were lovely, eager, varied, inquisitive, and several other adjectives that mean nice.

I was pinch hitting for Benny, who I know from NOVA back in the day, so I told them to ask him about "baseball loudspeaker," a story he may have told them already, but I wanted to make sure they hear it because I think they'd enjoy it.

We talked about Texas, Houston, names, the Lone Ranger, the Texas Rangers, food, pastimes, Bush, CIA, WTC7, and at the very end, alien bases on the back side of the moon.

The time seemed to zip by, and at the end I received some candy from Junko, a chocolate bar from Reiko, and a payment for lunch because they assumed I hadn't brought any lunch after being called on such short notice. I emailed JB to say it was lovely, and I'll be happy to teach there any time they like.

Now I'm headed to next lesson, though I have a bit of a gap which I hope to fill with food for me and my computer (but esp. my phone)

hello coco curry and electrical outlet

14:04 Wednesday 25 November 2015 JST

Yay! Free electricity, free place to sit, and veggie curry for only 600 something yen.

Thanks, CoCo Ichiban Curry!

tvos vocab builder

15:21 Wednesday 25 November 2015 JST

Nearly got my audio manager thing working for the osTV app we're making, but it's got a design flaw or two or more. Basically it needs to load data from the web before it knows what words it can play. So I need it to wait for the words... maybe I can make it a singleton to simplify things. hmm

white drawing

15:25 Wednesday 25 November 2015 JST

I'm going to work on my white drawing now.