MetaAnomie

Just a thought: maybe the reason we haven’t ever been able to develop AI good enough to pass the Turing test is simply because it is being programmed by, well, engineers. Let’s face it, we aren’t know for our social skills.

Had band practice last night and we went through “Pretense” a couple times. We were pretty much all in agreement that it’s fine how it is now. Just need to work on the dynamics a tad before our recording session next month. We will probably have one more recording the month after and we plan on playing at an event in Shibuya after that. Might throw in one other gig as well. We will see.

The princess got some medicine and we are trying to simultaneously attack her cold and eye infection at the same time. She seemed a lot better yesterday. And the medicine makes her sleep a lot. This is terrible to say, but it’s heaven for us. The wifey threw out the idea of drugging her up every day (laugh).

Continuing on with my habit of wasting time by download all sorts of free software crap, I found this cool sidebar for XP/2000: Desktop Sidebar. So far I like it. There are plenty of plugin components and skins for it as well. I was looking into getting one because I wanted a new feed reader. I usually give up using this mess after a week though. We will see what happens I guess.

On Saturday we are going to meet up with the architect and we have some big decisions to make about the final floor plan (i.e. what we are going to do about heating/cooling, what mess we are going to cut out to bring the price down, etc). Sunday is picnic time if weather permits.

And, um, I think I might continue witting that horrible book I suddenly stopped working on last month if I can find a good 30 mins to an hour a day to play with it. Worst case scenario, I can send it to people I don’t like as a birthday present or something.

1. Regardless of your ideals, somethings in life are that way by nature, and throwing all your weight at them isn’t going to change a thing. It makes a hell of a lot more sense to work to understand them and use them to your advantage rather than fight a futile battle.

2. Change is something that cannot be imposed on people; it is something that the individual has to decide on for themselves. You can nurture change but you can’t force it.

3. Whenever you have a problem with someone, it’s best to take a second to think about what exactly it is that you’re truly concerned with and what it is you are actually after. Then you have to clarify the same for the other person. It’s easy to get pissed off with people and lose track of what it is you both really care about — and it’s an utter waste of time. Think of what you both want or don’t want, and focus on the best way to get it. The funny part is that half of the time it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

4. Almost every issue can be broken up to be either an emotional issue or a logical one. It’s best to know which your dealing with before trying to address it.

5. When working within a particular system, you will never be in 100% control of it. Understand it, work from within to change boundaries, and you will get far. Fight directly against it and you will get nowhere. The only way to have 100% control is to get the fuck out and do it all on your own.

6. Most shit you worry about will never happen, and most of the rest of it is out of your control anyway.

7. Embarrassment is subjective and self-inflected.

8. Life is only as serious as you make it.

9. We are all wasting a hell of a lot more fun, excitement, knowledge, and success than the failure and embarrassment we are avoiding by doing nothing.

10. If you try to cover and plan for every problem and possibility, you will never get anything done. If for say, even only 20% of what you want to do works and 80% doesn’t, it is still a hell of a lot better than 0% of what you want. And you can always focus on the other 80% later.

11. You are not everyone else and they certainly aren’t you. You can either enjoy those differences or hate them, but it isn’t going to make them go away.

12. Getting irritated over or passing judgment on others’ life choices is a remarkable waste of time and energy. Learning from them is incredibly smart.

13. Give everyone, including yourself a break on the small shit, we’re all human and little trivial mistakes here and there are out of our control.

Maybe more later? Who knows.
Anyone got any others? Or even some fixes for mine?

I woke up yesterday and took a look at the princess and her right eye was all swollen up. I figured it was probably because she just woke up or something, wiped the sleep out of her eyes and went on to work. Got home last night and learned what I wiped out of her eyes wasn’t sleep at all — it was pus. It had been coming out of her eyes all day. She woke up once last night with so much mess it sealed her eyes closed. I feel awful for her.

The wifey called the doctor and they told us it was probably conjunctivitis (pink eye). I always thought pink eye was just your eyes getting real red and itchy. Didn’t know it involved swelling and discharge and all kinds of terribly fun things like that. Anyhow, the wifey took her to the hospital this morning to go get some medicine so hopefully it will clear up soon.

On a side note, it amazes me how much you learn about diseases once you have a kid because they are constantly catching all sorts of shit. I now know way too many disease names in Japanese.

Note: pink eye = ketsumakuen

My Sunday went something like this:

- Woke up and made sandwiches for breakfast
- Feed the princess
- Sorted, cleaned up, and uploaded concert pics
- Introduced ourselves to our soon-to-be neighbors
- Checked out the different views from our house
- Said our final goodbyes before it gets tore down
- Went shopping with the wifey for diapers and whatnot
- Went out for a pint and some food at an Irish pub
- Went back home and passed out on the bed with the princess
- Did some work on the fit website
- Sat down with the wifey to do more house planning
- Passed out

Amazingly, the princess went to sleep soon after we got to the pub giving the wifey and I our first quite lunch in longer than I can remember.

Now back to work.

More photos here.

(Thanks for the photos Maggie!)

Last weekend, we packed up the fam to go visit the wifey’s dad out in Osaka. We also took a little day trip out to the Expo Park.

This is what Tokyo people do when then see grass.

We were surrounded by a horde of Osaka girls who wanted to take the princess’ picture.

Here’s Anna once again being entertained by something us adults are oblivious to. Maybe her hat?

Slightly bigger pictures in the album.

Kind of, I think. It appears like bitching about shit on your blog can actually be beneficial at times. I figure I can ride out my new wave of energy for all of, I don’t know, 15 more minuets maybe? (laugh)

Bah.

Have you ever noticed that when you’re really tired, you get all scatterbrained? Like you just keep jumping from one thought to another, but quickly enough that you really can’t hold on to one for long enough to act on it? That’s kinda how I have been all day. And I also have this tendency to get real negative about life when I’m sleepy which is never fun.

I think I have been going a bit too hard for a bit too long now. I’m just, well, utterly exhausted. I can’t remember the last time a had a full day of downtime and it’s really starting to catch up with me now. Just feeling a bit miserable, unmotivated, and numb.