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May 31st, 1999 Monday
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June Nineteenth, 1999 Saturday
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June Twenty Eighth, 1999 Monday
July Ninth, 1999 Friday
July Eleventh, 1999 Sunday
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May 31st, 1999
Well well well.. Finally finished with my complete destruction of my page. Now to put it back together for the temp page. I'll use this babble page as sort of like my update page as well. This page get updates more then any of the others. Hmmm I'm debating sticking profile in here. Just give you guys something to read while I am dinking around. Anyways. Hmm found results fromt eh Mega White League meet. Gosh dang the boys suck. Ok let's go down the list. Our 4x400 team could haved placed first by a comfy 4 seconds. The two mile run I was never really good at but I think I could have pulled off 10:30 - 10:45. Which migt have goten me as high as 5th. For crying outloud someone woh ran a 32 second 200 got points... I ran 27 during practice..As repreats..uck. I think I could do 25-6 ish. That would have goten me that 8th place:) I could have bloody won the half mile. second definatly,, first would have been pushing it,, but I might have been able to pul it off. I would have gotten 4th in the 300 hurdles. About 6th in the 400. Ahh the mile. Sigh.. This one is a toughy., I've never broken 5 in the mile, but I know I could have easily in eithery junior or senior year.. Just by how much is the question... But I think I could been in the mix 1-5... When I get back home I'm gonna have to go amd kick some major butt on that boys team..... None of them are where they are supposed to beErk!.... Wax runs sub 5 as a freshman, but right now all he can do is 4:42??? Hmmm... Anyways:) Off to brighter topics:) Chiko got 7th and her relay got 5th:) yay!!! That's good. I don't think I've ever earned a point at the league meet other then by relays.. Somewhat disappointing considering I could have scored in soo many events this year:) But heh:)
June Ninth, 1999 Monday
Well now it's the 9th.... I got atleast two more hours on this train before arriving in Tokyo, Just sitting herebeing bored poopless. Listening to my Speed MD. Not bad. Before this I was listening to Glay. Mike is sleeping to my right, Chiko is sleeping to my eft and Mimi is acrossthe asile reading a book. She's a book worm. I swear she's too smart for her own good. My mother is sitting in front of us. Hmmm Nothing much else to think about. Cound found it. I'm tired. I should go to bed but I don't feel like it. Sleeping is boring. hahaha. But it does sound good. Just impossible to get comfortable here. Hmmm Nothing to do,,, Bored... Need somthing to do... Hmm Well I guess I'll go off and read a book. TTYL
June Nineteenth, 1999 Saturday
Hello all. Works been real busy. But it's all good. Last night the company had a little get together. We went bowling first. I had a handicap of 45. Yay!. Actually all the other newbies had a handicap of 45 as well, except the one new female new comer, she had a handicap of 50. Including handicap I think i placed 6th or 7th. Top 5 got prizes. Also do did the second worst and every fifth place. So it went something like this. 1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20,25,30,32. The team I was on took 3rd out of 11 teams. We got a prize for that:) yay! My scoores were 120, 122, and 137. Yeah another average day. But the second game where I got 122 was screwed up:) I started off with a 9, but then had 3 strikes and a spair. After that though I didn't mark again:) hehehehe. It was a time. After bowling we went had dinner/drinks. That was fun. German beer. Still tastes terrible german or not:). It kinda funny to see how my co-workers act when not at work:). The alchohol may had something to do with it too:). Anyways the food was good, and the dirnks were you know usual:). New pictures on the Reckoner's home page so go there:). Grin.
So I went out just looking around some CD stores. I wasn't planning on buying anything, but then I saw it. I had no choice:) It was just calling my name:) Phantom of the Opera Japanese Version. I was like Woah.. Coool. And then I became very curious. Did they translate all the lyrics and stuff? How about the music? And yup that what they did. They changed all the lyrics. There a few plces that the lyrics just don't quite fit it. Ahh well. And dang is it ever confusing trying to listen to the CD. I'm soo used to hearing all the music in english that this thing just like blah I dunno. It messes with my brain.
June Twenty Fifth, 1999 Friday
Hey y'all. As much as I try to clean my room, it never seems to look any better. You know what would be real good right now? A good tornado, so I could blame this mess on something else other then myself:) I was planning on going on a bike ride this weekend, but it appears the weather for tomorrow and Sunday will not be good for it. Sigh. Which reminds, last Sunday I went for a bike ride. That was fun. I was completly and utterly lost. But that was't the fun part:). Ok then fun part, which at the moment at happened I thought I was going to die. Alright, it's actually pretty short:). I was riding on the sidewalk, because traffic was dang congested but the sidewalk was pretty empty. Anyways I'm going down along this side walk, and I come to the hill. A down hill. You know what I'm thinkin, "Awww yeah". And with that I'm off at full speed ahead. Suddenly I notice that the side was coming to an intersection maybe 10 feet away. If that wasn't bad enough, it appeared that the sidewalk I was on, wasn't inclined. I had a straight 8 inch drop. And about 10 feet from that, the beginning of a new sidewalk, had a 8inch rise. You could imagine the message in my head at that moment "Ohhhh Poopers, this is gonna hurt!" So I cluth the rear breaks, like my life depended on it. First time in a long time I've made tires on a bike skid. Anyways I don't know how, but I managed to live through that un-scathed. All the way home from that point I was thinking, "That was AWESOME! Holly Baheezits! Dang! Yeeehaw! Wohoo!" And that concludes that story. But dang, that was ever such a sweet expierence.
You know what can get me good and pumped for awhile, the thought of running. It's really quite amazing. I was surfing around the web last weekend, and I heard about the Walt Disney Marathon. And for your information, I am not going to run a marathon, atleast not yet. But there was also a half marathon as well. And this was to be on Januray 9th I think. And all of a suddent I have a million thoughts like, Hey I might be able to run that. You know thinking that I may still be on Christmas break or something. But it turns out that I have school starting the 5th. But anyways I was like, yeah, a half marathon. That would be awesome. Only 13.1 miles. Plus I've got about 6 months to get in shape for it. I could pull it off. Mind you my time would be somewhere around 3 hours, but still. And Just thought, and even now, it just sorta makes me wanna go out and run. But alas, when I actually do get to that door and step out for a run, not even 10 minutes into it, I'm all tired, and wanting to quit. Sigh. I still remember my third run here. On that run, I ran for what seemed forever. I was just feeling great. It was one day after work, and I dunno, I just had this drive to run. And run I did. The speed wasn't the greatest but it's the farthest I've ran since Track my senior year. But since then I havn't even been able to run like a 1/3 of what I did that run. In some ways it brings me down, in other ways it makes me happy. It brings me down cause I can't do it again at will, but it makes me happy, because I know if the conditions are right I can stull run as far as I want. Sooo now just to find that cheese that will make the hamster run.
June Twenty Eighth, 1999 Monday
Two maybe funny stories. Ok Sunday I decide to go wander up to work for some unknown reason. It was raining, and well Mother Nature decided to have some fun with me, and decided to all of a suddent out of nowhere throw a wind gust of about 500 miles and hour at me, and broke my umbrella. Luckily I was near work. So I finally get to work. Reletivly dry. But during this stay at work I realized I needed a new umbrella. Now I thought I was lucky before, well I guess it was only mother nature getting ready for the fun stuff I guess. When I got to the lobby and looked out all I saw was water. It was incredible. If I wern't at work, and if I were wearing running cothing I would been one happy dude, but as it was I wasn't wearing running clothing and I was onmy way to buy a new umbrella. So off I went to the store to buy myself an umbrella. By the time I got to the store, I looked like I just swam the entire link of the pacific ocean 5 times fully clothed. I felt like I weighed about 3 tons. But I wasn't the only one. About 90% of the other customers were all drenched too. Their umbrella's did little to save em. Anyways I bought my umbrella, and off back to work. It was upon this return trip to work that I decided that I was gonna go home change and enjoy some running in this rain:). I havn't run through weather like that in a loong time:). But then Mother nature, like always, thwarted my plans. On my way home the rain became lighter and lighter, until by the time I got home, it seemed more a sprinkle. I still enjoyed the run anyways:)
Story number two. My bathroom is a dryer:). That was awesome when I found this out. In case any of you don't know it, right now we are in the middle of the rainy season. All last week it rained, and all this week it's supposed to rain as well. I don't mind the rain, hell I love running in the rain. Dang fun. But you know I had this big problem of laundry. You see most people in Japan hoist thier clothes outside to dry em. Now with a week straight of rain, my washer was already full and my dirty clothing pile was getting bigger and smellier by the day. Ok now I have this dial right next to the door to my bath room. Up until now all I thought it was, was just a regular ventilation type thingy. I never had a reason to use. But a couple days ago for some strange reason I was playing with it. And I noticed when I turned it one way, the bathroom got really hot. Soo taking note of my drastic situation I decided to try to use it as a dryer. So I did a load of wash, stuck it in the room, and turned the knob. A few hours later I walked into that room, and boy was it ever hot in there, butthe clothing was dry!!!! I was like YEH!!!!! Wohooo Clean clothing!!! Yaaa!!!!! Anyways ater a friend of mine stopped by and I asked him to translate what it said atop the know and he said, it says this way for vent and this way for drying. I was like sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. I got myself a dryer. And then I realized all this time I7ve been shoering, pooping and peeing in my dryer. Kinda make me worry about my clothing but ehhhhh:) and that was my intriguing little weekend. Now I7m off to bed. night
July Ninth, 1999 Friday
Life is going good. in about 5 and half hour I will be going on a nice long bike ride. Hehehehehehe. Some catches it's still only 10:30 PM Firday. So Yup, I'm leaving my house 4AM. Right now I am making a couple MD's to keep me company while I ride. There's a pretty decent size lake near by, and I decided I am gonna circle it. Yeah. And possibly next week Imay go climb Mount Fuji. Looks like that will be a solo trip as well. But I am afraid my dad will not be too thrilled to find that out... I havn't decided I want to tell him or not, cause he's in Japan right now.... Hmmmmmmmmm, I know I should tell him, but then again you, I aman adult.. Soo. And I am to be living alone.... Ehhhh. That one is still in the air. I am defiantly going near Mt Fuji. I am going to see that bloody thing on this trip if I have to ride my bike there daggit. But I'd rather take a train/Bus there and climb it:) I am determinded to do this, but if dad says no, he says no.... Hm,but what he doesn't know can't hurt him.. Hehehe muahahah.. Yeah but what hefinds out later could hurt me.. Hmmm... Errr.. DOh,, hmmm... Sigh. But anyways just the thought of the two has me all hyper. Hahahahahaa.
Work. Tiring. Impossile. I've been doing alot of proof reading the last a couple days. It seems we are having some german folks coming in for some training, so we've had to write tutorials for them on some software, and they had to write them in English. After they were finished writing them, I had the lovly job of Proof reading them. I hate proof reading. I a absolutly horrible with English. And dang did this ever prove that to me:) I also have write the Tutorial for th software I'vebeen working ever since I've been here. So today the people were discussing my going party. Looks like the most probable date will be the 30th of July. We'll see what happens with that. Hmmm. I finally caught a glipse of my sister's BF. I now know the target:) Hahahahaaha. Ohh did I say that out loud? Whooops, Just don't pay any attentiont to that one:) I wanna go now!!!!!! Ugggg,.. The wait, the worst part of anything....... And welll. I am all out of words. SOoo I will be leaving you now, Hahaha,, So you think, But I have my SPy satellites peering down. Hehehee.
July Eleventh, 1999 Sunday
Well life is good. Where to start where to start. Well my bike ride. I started ta 9 am. I went to bed around midnight cause I was just exhausted from I don't know what. I woke up at 3am fully prepared to watch my monring cartoons, and head out the door soon afterwards, but when I flipped on the TV, it wasn't on!! Ohhh that sucked:) So I went back to fully prepared to get up at 4am. I readjusted the alarm clock and everything, except I forgot to turn it on, so I woke upat 9 am, and was like Doah! So I left then. Talk aout complete and torturous hell with glimpse of Heaven. The first 30 hour I was flying:) Nothing could stop me. And that attitude kept going on for awhile. But around end of the first hour when I got my first good glimpse of my goal, this shot through my head, Ohhh boy , no way in hell. Uh uh. You're crazy to do this. But then my logic came in. Hehe but I'll have one heck of time doing it:). My rewards, Two slooping wet shoes, a pair of slopping wet socks, my first ever attempt at riding my bike through a lake, and my first ever sun burn. I say sun burn because today my skin had a bit of a red tinge to it. Didn't hurt to touch or anything though. Oh yeah and I have to scream, MY BIKE ROCKS! :) During some parts of that trip I was thinking," damn this bike rocks! ". I'll be sad to say good bye to it when I come back home. Hehehe. All totaled the trip took me a wee bit more then 7hours. Hour 4, 5 and 6 sucked. I was stuck through those three hour with no liquids. Not good. I wasn't quite planning on it. I was looking for a store or even a vending machine, but nadda, Nip, nilch. I was tempted to just stop by someone's house and ask for water:). But me being as dumb as I am just continued on my way. Evenetually I came upon a vending machine. Ohhh the wisest 480 yens I ever spent. I bought 4 cans of Aquarius. Closest thing I can thing of to it is like a gatorade/squit mix. Not too bad but more importantly it got liquids in my system. Heheh Those
four cans were a god send. Filled up both my water bottle and had about a half can for the road. Ohh For about the first 15 minutes after I got those cans I was off at a dead sprint screaming "Wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo and Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!" hehehe. That was fun:) Oh and my ride throgh the lake, that was fun. Ok I was riding along this road when I came across a beach. This road ended at the beach. And the closest cross road aong that road was maybe 2 or 3 km behind me. So I figured eh it's only a beach, I can ride through sand, and plus how long could it possibly be? So I decided to start, and i get a few stared from people on the beach. The beach soom turns into rocks. And I ain't talking little pebbles, I had to get off and get back on my bike like 5 times cause of the size of these suckers. This continued on for a little while, then I came across a 10 ft wall. My options, go over, go back, or take the lake. Well going over wouln't have killed me, and going back wouldn't be any fun so I said, "Eh it's only water." And off I go into the lake. The water came to withabout a foot of my seat. My legs/shoes/socks were drenched. My shorts got a wee bit wet but not too bad. This was one of those times I was thinking "My Bike kicks arse!". That was fun. After that My feet were very uncomfortable so I went off looking for some sandals to buy. You figure I'm by a lake, and lots of people are swimming, there's bound to be sandals somewhere right? Nope, None zilch. Sigh. So I was stuck with y slopping wet shoes for the rest of the journey. Not to bad. The heat was absolutly horrid. But all in all I would do it again.
After that Bike ride when I got home I went straight for the shower and took myself a nice cold shower. Coldness never felt better. Then I cleaner up my room a bit and was dead asleep soon afterwards. Today I woke up and finished up the cleaning. There was a chance that Mydad was coming today so I wanted to make sure everything was nice and clean:) Didn't need my dad killing me here in Japan:). Then I bought CD's and came to work, where I currently am. But not for long it's almost 10pm and it's my bloody day off!!! My dad didn't come by the way. I scanned in 19 pictures and there up in my picture page now. I warn thee now that page willtake quite a while to load. All the pictures are like extra huge. So have fun:) Now thatI am all done with the updating I'm going home. Good night.
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