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fixing dates for several entries

13:13 Wednesday 28 September 2016 JST

Hugo is picky about the date format. It's gotta look like this 2016-09-28T13:13:05+09:00 which I'm sure is a named standard, but I don't know the name.

Right now, after reverting an old commit in which I removed a lot of dates because Middleman couldn't deal with dates after 3pm, I have 245 dates which Hugo cannot parse.

I copied and truncated each line from the list of errors from Hugo's output, and have 245 lines like these three:

'2005-09-26 20:08:51' in page ~/journal/2005/09/26themes.md
'2005-09-26 18:19:56' in page ~/journal/2005/09/26wordpress.md
'2005-10-14 15:30:09' in page ~/journal/2005/10/14general-relativity-versus-newton.md

Time for some emacs macros to fix them up.

13:26

Sweet done!

how do you say コンセント in japanese?

12:34 Wednesday 28 September 2016 JST

I came to CoCoIchiban curry place because the others I've visited featured electric outlets where my computer can sip the sweet sweet AC it craves from time to time.

I asked the waitress コンセントがありますか and she was like, "?????" as if I had said "yo yall gots outlets here?"

i am 16989 days old today

23:41 Wednesday 28 September 2016 JST

And I hope to add a counter to my static site tonight.

00:09

yay!

Based on code from my thing on codepen

See the Pen Rob's days old counter by Rob Nugen (@thunderrabit) on CodePen.

journal maintenance

21:47 Wednesday 28 September 2016 JST

I've just gone through and updated for Hugo my entire set of entries from 2003. But before I copy them over to the repo, I want to figure out how to add ふりがな to 漢字 again so I can study some more.

substitute lesson

12:41 Wednesday 28 September 2016 JST

I subbed for Matt again this week. Each class had one more student than last week, so I guess that was a good sign. I talked about neti with one of the students who was suffering from allergies.

We imagined luxurious vacations in both classes. "They will fly to Italy to eat pizza" and "they would fly in a hot air balloon" are examples of the grammar structures used in each class.

wisdom

14:42 Wednesday 28 September 2016 JST

I told Travis about my idea to walk to Niigata. Here I'll just post the email:

In other news, I'm considering walking barefoot to Niigata, where

Lin's highschool friend Mikako lives. (Due to their friendship, I

worked with Mikako for a bit at a language school. She's quite

bilingual and pretty cool for a girl ;-)) If this happens, I figure

I'll do it during Golden Week next year, especially if there are more

than a few days off in a week. I haven't looked yet. I guess it will

take about 8 days to walk. (Rough estimate by breaking Google Maps

suggestion into 8 hour chunks per day.)

His reply:

Sounds like quite a plan!  What is the furthest/longest you have walked
(barefoot) so far?  Perhaps it would be wise, for health reasons, to try
a shorter (25%?) trip before committing to such a long one.

What? Plan ahead??

Well, since I'm just futzing around before class, which is 1/2 the length of Seaside Line away from here, perhaps I can walk to class now. I know it's not 1/4 of the way to Niigata, but it's more than 1/100th!

From here to Niigata is 74 hours on foot. From here to work is 1.25 hours on foot.

14:48

Aw man, it's raining!

(And I have no rain cover for my backpack, the only part of me that's not waterproof.)