Unusually for me, I’ve been coming to school three days in a row.

Good evening. I’ll introduce what I’ve been eating for dinner during work shifts lately.

Post-typhoon sunshine and a guilty conscience about fitness sent me to the tennis practice wall — where my tennis-club arms surrendered embarrassingly fast.

A USB extension cable shaped like spaghetti napolitan, complete with fried-shrimp USB drive — 128 MB for ¥9,800. Zero practicality, full commitment.

Today I used the cleaning supplies I bought yesterday and washed the car.

¥3,000 of car care: ultra-fine compound for the scratches, heat-proof tape, and a premium hard wax at ¥1,800 per 100g — let’s see if it brings back the showroom shine.

Reading ‘Kikko’s Diary’ on the Fuji TV announcer scandal: smooth, plausible, detailed — and written by someone completely unknown. The internet’s truth problem, 2005 edition.

A newsletter from the company I’ll join next spring said: enjoy summer break, make memories. My lab schedule says otherwise — open campus on fireworks day, three years running.

My first impression was, “It’s cooler than the old one.” The keyboard is pretty easy to type on, and the layout is decent.

People are people; I am me. On being compared — by teachers then, by professors now — and why a painful childhood left me with firm reasons for the path I chose.

I went to Robocup Osaka 2005. A member of our lab told about automatical map creation in Rescue Simlation System.

I went to Osaka. My main purpose was to help out at the RoboCup World Championship held at Intex Osaka.

The auction ticket sold in two hours at the buyout price, a 260 km drive to RoboCup in Osaka ahead, and Yahoo! directory traffic up 4x — a busy week in 2005.

A friend asked me to auction a KOTOKO live ticket — an artist I know nothing about. Listed below face value, learning about registered mail along the way.

Here and here With this, I can tell how many people visited in a day. I already have access analytics in place, though… Alright, come on over and check it out!

‘The page you recommended has been listed on Yahoo! JAPAN’ — third application, finally accepted, supposedly harder than getting into Tokyo University. Traffic experiment begins.

Take a look at the post time. 6:03 AM. Normally, this is the time I’d be deep in sleep, just having started. But today, I woke up naturally.

Set up a hand-me-down computer for my mother to browse the internet, then gave her a one-hour lesson — startup, shutdown, romaji typing. By the end she’d forgotten the beginning. Slow and steady.

In Japan contact lenses need a prescription; overseas they don’t. I’ve used a Singapore-based personal-import shop for over a year — Focus Dailies cheaper even with shipping.

I’m talking about Samba, for Windows file sharing on Linux. I gave version 3.0 a try. http://h.keikun.info/~kei/linux_jisaba/topic03/index.html Hmm.