Midaregami

I have made it home. Posting will resume soon.

I am tired beyond description, and sincerely hope that I do not have to teach today.

I am heading back to New Mexico via Tokyo. Internet access will be sporadic for the next few days while I screw around in Their Nation’s Capital—send messages to my phone or call me. I leave for New Mexico on Thursday.Departure: United Airlines flight 838 from Tokyo to Denver, 7:30 PM, March 25.Arrival: United Airlines flight 729 from Denver to Albuquerque, 6:17 PM on March 25.I hope to be met by somebody willing to help carry my ridiculously heavy suitcase. If I have to call for a ride after 20 hours of international travel, I shall be very put out.

The backlight on Julia’s iBook has failed, so I no longer have internet access at home. I’ll be checking email at school, but that’s about it.

Life has suddenly started being awful again. It’s strange how things can turn around like that.

I’ve now discovered how to look at my referrer logs, to see from where visiters to this site are coming, and what search terms led them here. The results are mostly boring, but occasionally something interesting will show up.

Recently, somebody hit my music page after searching for “jonathon codini,” the name of SOWN’s old guitarist. I wonder who was checking up on ol’ Jon?

What’s more generally interesting is that people that I don’t know do, in fact, hit and read this site occasionally. I wonder if it’s interesting.

This is a bit belated, but I’m out of town and regular internet access until this coming Monday night, Japan time.

In other news, the Tokyo Apple Store is some kind of heaven. It’s like home, but with more computers. And free internet access from their phalanx of gorgeous 20” iMacs.

Dear Apple, I love you. Sincerely, Paul.

I have entries in the queue to post, but they’re going to have to wait—I’m heading to Takarazuka to meet up with Chris, Junko, and the Nishidas (which would be a good name for a band.) Thus Julia and I will be incommunicado for a few days. Keitai mail and phone calls will, of course, remain effective ways of contacting either of us.

With my recent revelation, I’m unveiling a new category for Midaregami.net—”Damnfoolery.” Although doubtless it’s been coined previously, I coined this word last November while writing a (ha!) novel, and it seems appropriate for this damnfool business of going back to school and studying music. Henceforth all subsequent posts pertaining to me personally doing music will have their own appropriately-named category.

Damnfoolery. Just rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it? Yup, right off the tongue, then flops, destitute, into the gutter.

I am Jack’s crossed fingers.

Midaregami.net is experiencing technical difficulties. We are aware of the problem and will do our best to fix it as soon as we get to a net connection that doesn’t require a goddamned hall pass to use anything besides port 80.

What I’m trying to do now is test the XML feed and see whether it’ll, yknow, syndicate on LiveJournal. Or really anywhere, but LiveJournal specifically.

I’m not seeing this. At all.