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Daily excerpt from The Paranoid's Pocket Guide:
While a person's happiness fluctuates, everyone has a naturally set level for happiness--much like body weight. So if you're generally an unhappy person, get used to it.
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Woke up at: 1030
Mood: Happy
Listening to: Art of Storytellin' by Outkast
Weather Report: Clear and warm
Japanese Word/Phrase/Food of the Day: = the Japanese equivalent to the english: "un~", "non~", "de~" for anti
Japan News: CHIBA -- A policeman fired a shot at a knife-wielding boy in a police box Saturday afternoon after the teenager slashed the officer while trying to steal his gun, police said. Both were injured, but their wounds are not life-threatening, according to prefectural police. read more.

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Fantasy Football Update (as of 10.19.03):
Record: 3-2-1
Should be an interesting weekend
Week 7 matchup: wholly shet (Matt)
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Fantasy Basketball Update (as of 10.19.03):

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Current Book Status:
Cryptonomicon: page 991
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Sunset Cruise, Ikko

I had a lot of time to do stuff cuz my gas shut off suddenly. So I cleaned up my apartment. Got a lot done. Unfortunately, I had to take an cold shower which didn't help when it was 17 degrees in my apartment!

Around 3ish, went to go pick Kaoru up at Yakuendai eki. First time she's been to a place in Funabashi other than her uncle's house. My town is zenzen chigau (totally different) than Asakusa.

She brougth some anmitsu over which was pretty interesting. It was all separated by ingredient. After devouring that, we headed to JR Funabashi to go pick up Aki and head to Tajima's office. Since Aki had to wait a bit, she ended buyin' a purse @ Tobu. Met up with Tajima and then took a taxi to Funabashi harbor. Since Ikko couldn't come, Kaoru's father (Kazue's younger brother) came. After we waited for it to stop sprinklin', we all boarded the boat and headed out. There were about 60-70 ppl on the boat, all with grubbin' food and drink, and there was even a band that played. Tajima instantly brought out the champagne and Ando brought out the food. As part of the cruise fee, we all got some yakitori and beer. After the champagne was gone, Tajima brought out some cabernet but broke the bottle opener! @ around this time it started to rain again. Everyone brought out their umbrellas. We were around Makuhari at this time. We were supposed to make our way to Disneyland so that we could see the hanabi, but the weather wouldn't permit us. So, Ono san turned the boat around and put it into high gear. With everyone being sloshed at this point, this old man gets up and starts dancing to the music. The next thing I know, everyone is gettin' up to dance. Luckily I had my camera to capture the moment. When we got back to the harbor, we all headed to Tajima's house. It was very natsukashii for me cuz I haven't been there in a long time. About 30 min later, Setsu came back with Uro san. We chatted it a bit, but I kinda dozed off in Tajima's chair. Uro san then took me home (in her dope Prius) and I had her drop me off @ McDonalds cuz it's too tough to go to my apartment. Headed over to Ikko and the crew was there: Shacho, Kita, Sakamoto, Mori, Ezure & Noboru. They gave me a hard time for just drinkin' ocha, but I wasn't feelin' the alcohol anymore. Not sure if it's good to mix: champagne, wine, beer with sho chu. Ya'll feelin' me on this one? Mama hooked me up with oshinko and kaki. I then headed home and was about to go to sleep, but I ended up messin' around with iTunes for a while. I also downloaded this short film about The Matrix from Fanimatrix. I must say that it was pretty well done giving the resources that they had.

This morning, mailed Takahashi sensei about my apartment's gas problem. He walked me through the process of resettin' the gas. 3 min later, I'm cookin' up some gyoza on my range! No more cold showers! Wellz...bought to go get ready to head out to Tsudanuma to check out the book prices then go to Kinshicho to see Hideki and Tetsuo's performance.

Kaz out...

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