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On Saturday I met Ali and others at Cinta Jawa in 渋谷.

On Sunday I met Toliver who joined us for disc. He has an electric scooter 🛴 zoom zoom!

Today was a really great day in terms of weather with a quite a big community of maybe 80 people in attendance at SOGO Bootcamp.

We had six new attendees (total, not at the same time) at ultimate and got a few good games of four on four going, including subs and for a bit we had five on five.

I was happy to hear when Moizse was so impressed with our endurance, running back and forth for hours.

I must say I’m in top physical condition that I’ve been since high school. Yay 😁!

Today I had a good cry, feeling lonely and isolated on my computer and in Japanese language world instead of hanging out in Australia with Jess.

As part of hearing God’s voice, I practiced extending love to my sadness as it arose.

Oh, another sad thing that happened was the loss of my Iris Go cup which I wanted to give to my neighbor 愛ちゃん.

I think what happened is that it got stuck by being closed continuously for about 2 months while I was gone. But what really happened when I opened it and saw it wouldn’t unlock and I got frustrated then broke it while trying to fix it non-carefully.

5:55 Thursday 11 April 2024 (木)

Dear God, thank You for myriad ways of speaking to me. I saw 444 twice yesterday or so and woke up to see 555 on my phone while thinking I was late awaking. But I feel great and realizing Your Path Energizes Me. Let’s gooooo 555!

Yesterday I prayed for a new journal and today I found the perfect journal in my room. BOOK TWENTY-SIX is the volume labeled

YOU DO THE IMPOSSIBLE WHEN YOU’RE HUNGRY AND DRIVEN!!!

which I started 4 February 1995 during my final years of University + year or so dabbling in Amway.

Thank you God for answering my call of having a brand new book with even more pages remaining than the entire TWENTY-FIVE when it was new.

Thank you Candace Doyle and DavidPaul Doyle for recording 5-Steps to Hearing God’s Voice 30-Day Course

While on the train to Raymond and Nessa’s place, Mike suggested we all speak only in 5-7-5 Haiku format.

I informed him Haiku must have a reference to the seasons (I think it’s actually a reference to the natural world)

He tried a few and then was like “bah”

When we got off the train in 自由が丘駅, Mike started the following exchange with me:

Knock knock!

Who’s there?

Hike.

Haiku?

Rob Unsuspecting.
Mike, waiting with bated breath 
Springs the perfect trap 

Yesterday I finally dove into YNAB (You Need A Budget) enough that I thiiiinnnk I’ll be able to stick with it. I already feel more relaxed and excited about my money even though I’m behind on social security payments and not sure about my income this month.

Because I’m in Japan I have to enter all transactions manually, but one benefit (as mentioned by ____) in a recording includes my having more awareness of my spending by entering everything myself.

My categories are still chaotic and I’m not sure if I’m using the credit card function correctly, but this should settle within a month or two.

I set a daily reminder to update YNAB transactions in my budget.

Let’s see how it goes! 🙈👀

Now I’m wishing I’d taken more pictures but we got this one photo in the gardens. There was a neat photo op of people up on the Sydney Harbour bridge and the Opera House itself is always iconic.

It’s so funny that after being here just a few times within 5 weeks I’m like “eh I’ve seen it before,” but now that I am hella leaving I’m like “oh damn I should have taken more pictures.”

Oh yes! Jess took this photo as well at the station overlooking the harbor.

There was a kid at Bondi Beach who dug a hole in the sand deeper than he was tall. I didn’t take a photo because he’s a kid, but he inspired me to dig, so I did.

In other news, the waves were again amazing today. For the last few days there’s been a quite a deep section right where the waves reach the shore and then shallow for about 20 or 30 meters before it gets deep again.

There were a few terrific waves today which ruffled up a lot of sand in the deeper portion of the water, so that was pretty neat.