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barefoot walk to kawasaki station

11:06 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

I'm barefoot today because I don't have to wear shoes until 6:30pm. A guy hung up his phone to talk to me a bit after he was like, "hey are you okay?"

He used to be a kickboxer and now has a bar in Roppongi. I didn't get the deets but maybe I'll see him when I head out to The Pink Cow this week. He was like, "why is everybody talking about The Pink Cow?" Fair enough question! I explained "it's a really cool place to hang out and meet people over drinks, great food, and great entertainment!"

big maze at toy store

18:44 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

Like the little maze I received because it was broken, but a lot bigger, there's a cool rotating maze at the toy store. It's essentially two radial mazes side by side, with two radial mazes on top of them, geared together so they must turn in anti-unison. Two balls live under plexiglass fixed to the top of the upper mazes and the goal is to get them out, through two holes in the plexiglass.

I wasn't able to solve it today, but I didn't give up; I had to leave for MM lessons.

Toy store said they didn't find my MOOV. Same response at the conveni where I'm writing. Boo.

good lesson with ss

21:44 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

The timeslot used to be for MM but now is for SS, Sarupapa and Sarumama. They're both progressing nicely, nearly enough for me to be inspired to study Japanese but gah I'm soo dumb (that I don't).

hard to work when neighbors are fighting

08:05 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

yup. upstairs neighbor and downstairs neighbor.

08:18

Lots of history and I don't have the J skizzles to help.

invoice template

18:42 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

Nate seems to have this need for things to be just the way they need to be. So for the nth time in n years, we agreed I'll use the template he sends me to create invoices.

lins going to see another house in hashimoto today

08:20 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

It's 888万円 so a bit more than the other, but a lot nicer so wouldn't need any renovation.

20:08 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

So it looks pretty great! I still want to keep looking at different places until we've seen about 20, but yeah the hardwood floors look lovely. And it's quite huge compared to our current space.

pecha kucha

11:10 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST

Hmmm. Last night the idea of presenting at Pecha Kucha came to mind. Could be a good place to speak about authenticity

Some fragments came to mind while walking to the station

• I like walking barefoot (on beach)
• Not just on the beach but everwhere I can (collage of barefeet walking)
• Don't worry about what people think
• Just be happy
• Not always happy
• Sometimes life can be surprising (surprise snake)
• What if we could talk about it?
• Not to a mirror, but to a person who listens
• What if we take time to sit and just be (black screen)
• Sometimes we might find monsters
• but it turns out they're just unheard sadness
• I broke my shoulder (x-ray picture)
• Had just meditated so wasn't bothered
• I lost my rabbit (Francois picture)
• found him all cleaned up and repaired on Ebay!
• Life's little mysteries (factory production line thousand copies Francois)
• Sometimes people fight like this (not listening picture)
• I'm afraid. scared to come up here.
• Can I tell you that? Can I be honest with you?
• Will you still like me? Still listen to me?
• My pessimistic side says you won't. I'll be booed off stage and I'm doing it wrong and no one will understand and it will just be terrrible
• But I can't control other people's responses. More important question:
• Will I still like myself?
• You know when you walk barefoot outside in the city and you step on a piece of glass and you have to ask your wife to dig in there with a needle to pull it out, and you're just lying there feeling helpless with a needle near a sensitive part of your body? I mean the feet!
• Probably not. That's why I encourage people to use "I-statements."
• Sometimes, when I walk outside in Tokyo, I step on a piece of glass and can feel it lodged in my foot. I limp for the rest of the day and then ask my wife to dig in there with a needle to pull it out.
• But I don't feel helpless, because I trust her.
• Can I trust her with my soul? Sure; it's eternal. What about my feelings and emotions? Uh oh! Scary!